Jan EkholmMar 19

I was supposed to go to a local meetup yesterday. The two talks were about home automation with Go and about starting new embedded software projects in 2026. Both interesting.

But when I came to the place for the meetup I got a massive sense of impostor syndrome. Why should I be there and waste space, I know nothing about home automation nor embedded software?

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In other news, doing software is a terribly lonely profession if you're totally clueless and lack all forms of social skills. I miss some forum where one could chat about software and the sorry state of the tech world without the pressure of performing professionally. I don't have any form of external context like that. Fortunately my wife is also in software, but I can only bore her so much with my crap.
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Show threadkOoLiNuSMar 19
@chakie this kind of chat is still available on "old style" communities that resists in form of newsgroups, mailing-lists and communities migrated from public forums to private groups on Discord, Slack or something similar…
Show threadJan EkholmMar 19

@koolinus Online communities are one thing and IRL ones a whole different beast. There are nice places online with interesting and kind folks (like Mastodon) where good chats can be had.

But one can not live purely online. At least I sometimes pretend to be a social beast that like to see other folks (in moderation, of course). I'm awfully awkward and don't do the social stuff too well so it gets lonely.