I am not certain if this is an appropriate question for dev.to and apologize if it isn't.
I am a webdeveloper by heart in the broadest sense of the word and even though I love everything about it, being a developer is a lonely existence. At least it is for me. I can not talk to friends or family about 99% of the things I am passionate about. They have no idea what I am talking about and don't care to find out. (I don't blame them) I have many questions during the day (and night) and every now and then I got some answers too. Any type of intelligent feedback or dialogue is very welcome in my life.
If you are a developer and know what I am talking about then by all means feel free to find me on Facebook or add Skype: jochem.stoel
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I had very few dev friends when I started dev.to and it's a journey to get to this point, but from the beginning I wanted it to be a place to make friends with like-minded folks.
Our mindset is that we'd rather eventually solve the problem the right way than rush to build a crappy thing with unintended consequences, so that's why we haven't rushed to create a thing that addresses this straight on.
That is to say, this is an appropriate question in spirit. I've added you on Facebook but I don't use Facebook that much. I'd love if our community could be a way for folks to create authentic, healthy friendships with other developers across the world.
What about a messaging feature for dev.to?
I've lived where you live for most of my career. I worked solo projects for the larger part of it. It's depressing when you have nobody to learn from or express frustrations about "that code that won't compile" or "that bug I can't find". I remember it especially at particular jobs. You would think as an introvert that it would suit me, but it is a felt absence to be unable to share such a big part of my life with anyone. So I understand. I don't use FB or skype. Maybe there's a gitter for a tech you have questions in?
Do you use Discord or any other platform?
We have Slack for our team, but that's about it. If you have a particular platform you use, I could meet up with you there. Here's an old app I made. My email is on that page.
Oh yeah, on Google Hangouts too.
Hey pal !
It's so frustrating to keep for ourselves our passion and what makes us vibrate. I completely agree with this feeling, and I would really like to speak with you, unfortunately I don't have Facebook, only Telegram, LinkedIn or e-mail, but I hope we will contact me soon !
( + one extra follower on DEV.TO :D)
That is a brave and very honest thing you ask there. I must admit I was a bit surprised to see the headline but your explanation makes sense and I can totally relate to that.
You got yourself a new follower at
DEV.TO:)(I don't use skype and I try to minimize my time spent on facebook)
I Jochem!
I would love to talk about dev with you but I don't have skype or facebook... But if you're ok to use Discord, feel free to add me :
Sylve007#3075. It's a very good tchat for developers because it supports code snippets and all that stuff and it doesn't have a limit of message (wink wink Slackbot).To anyone else, feel free come to tchat with me/us too! :)
I get where you're coming from, it's not easy to find people who share your passion for something. What you also could do, is attending conferences/meetups, there are lots of like-minded people to talk to.
Unfortunately I don't use Facebook or Skype – only Discord, Telegram, good old emails and I also got Twitter.
You got a new follower on dev.to though. :)
Stephanie, thanks for your response. Not a bad idea to go to conferences/meetups more often. I spoke at some a couple of years ago but that's all.
Sorry for my late response. I have Discord these days. If you still want to, my Discord username is jochemstoel#7529
I would love a friend to talk about dev stuff or collaborate on an open source project together.
Anyway, I send you a friend request on Facebook.
Yeah, I face same problem when I firstly started too going to meet-ups help me you should try it.