There's still good stuff going on at local meet ups. I have experienced it myself.
Honest truth is there were always folks without passion in tech.
Meetups are bloody amazing. I keep meeting middle aged divorced women there with loose sense of morals and a drinking problem, which is perfect :)
That's because it's not a good vision for the future, it's literally either building shit that everyone knows doesn't matter or plugging away at pointless automation on overcomplicated piles of steaming crap. Or the next fad.
People have lost the vision and do not understand the soul of the machine is to improve our state of existence not enslave us further.
Fuck 'em. I'm taking the money and doing what makes me feel good (wine, floozies and travel).
Re:Happy New Year HN!
by wsintra2022 on Sunday December 31, 2023 @07:01PM
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Ah good ol’floozies
You could go out to lunch and have a technical chat and the people at the table next to you might chime in with a solution!
When you get enough passionate people and pack them into one location things get interesting for them (networking, friendships etc)... Much of the passion is gone (lots of people see tech as a path to a paycheck), and everyone wants to WFH.