I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I used to hang out around dreamincode which is just as friendly as dev.to but organised around an old-style forum. It looks dated but the people are nice.
I like IRC (generally freenode) for specific software.
Even reddit has some nicer parts but it's more of a full-on warren than a rabbit hole and you'll end up feeling you're in Watership Down if I can take the metaphor too far.
I don't use Twitter and Mastodon as much as I used to, and I never really used them much for development-related stuff.
I used to hang out around dreamincode which is just as friendly as dev.to but organised around an old-style forum. It looks dated but the people are nice.
I like IRC (generally freenode) for specific software.
Even reddit has some nicer parts but it's more of a full-on warren than a rabbit hole and you'll end up feeling you're in Watership Down if I can take the metaphor too far.
I don't use Twitter and Mastodon as much as I used to, and I never really used them much for development-related stuff.
It's funny how devs feel attracted to places that look 'internet old school' 😂.
Reddit is the best place to look for memes imo, pretty sure it will stay that way.
I've heard of IRC but more as a means of getting support. Interesting to know that people actually hang out there.
Thanks for sharing 😁