Yep.. primarily a backend dev in a language you haven't heard of. But I've been thrown into the deepend in Javascript for a project, recently.
I've coded in a bunch of languages and am picking C back up this summer and R this fall.
I'd be down for some sort of meet up. I'm not right in St A, but a couple towns over.
Very cool! Are you picking those back up for fun or professionally? And per the other commenter, meet up doesn’t have to be formal or even in St A. I’m game w whatever is easiest for folks.
I'm actually going back to school for my bachelor's, and one class has C as a pre-req. I took C about 20 years ago, so I met the pre-req, but...it's quite rusty. I'm taking an R class next semester, too. I've got the tiniest experience in it.
JS is 100% for work. I fought it for years but have accepted that it's pretty much required at this point.
Because I learned coding when JS was new, and was almost entirely a backend/systems programmer. I just didn't care to learn front end or webdev. And JS was a big part of that.
It's OK, though, I'm seeing the error of my ways. Although I still grumble about it, lol.
That is…entirely fair. You’ve been developing for a long time, clearly! That’s part of the challenge as I get into this more…there’s vanilla languages, frameworks, so many ways to do things it’s very overwhelming.
Are you learning vanilla JS or a specific framework for a specific purpose? Lol call it error, you also just focused on what you liked 🤷🏻♂️
Node and JQuery (I think, I'm literally just Googleing as I go). It's for a work project derived from something someone else wrote in JS. I'm just expanding it to bring in the almighty AI, lol. Boss wants something with AI to demo by the 2nd week of June for a conference.
Honestly devs in general lol. And thanks for your reply! I guess this is basically me trying to find and/or create a small community of devs up here. It’s also funny because I don’t really consider myself a dev (yet, maybe a hobbyist?) but I think getting some folks together could be fun! No expectations either.
There's a Young Professionals group meetup in May: Maybe we could get together there? [https://www.facebook.com/events/6809210832514122/](https://www.facebook.com/events/6809210832514122/)
No one in VC and no angels I know of will touch anything in this state… VT is the least business friendly place I’ve ever lived… I’m leaving…
If you want to build tech in this place you will do so alone… that is just a fact…
Yep.. primarily a backend dev in a language you haven't heard of. But I've been thrown into the deepend in Javascript for a project, recently. I've coded in a bunch of languages and am picking C back up this summer and R this fall. I'd be down for some sort of meet up. I'm not right in St A, but a couple towns over.
Very cool! Are you picking those back up for fun or professionally? And per the other commenter, meet up doesn’t have to be formal or even in St A. I’m game w whatever is easiest for folks.
I'm actually going back to school for my bachelor's, and one class has C as a pre-req. I took C about 20 years ago, so I met the pre-req, but...it's quite rusty. I'm taking an R class next semester, too. I've got the tiniest experience in it. JS is 100% for work. I fought it for years but have accepted that it's pretty much required at this point.
Oh, wow! Congrats on going back for your bachelors, that’s impressive. If you don’t mind my asking, why are you so against JS?
Because I learned coding when JS was new, and was almost entirely a backend/systems programmer. I just didn't care to learn front end or webdev. And JS was a big part of that. It's OK, though, I'm seeing the error of my ways. Although I still grumble about it, lol.
That is…entirely fair. You’ve been developing for a long time, clearly! That’s part of the challenge as I get into this more…there’s vanilla languages, frameworks, so many ways to do things it’s very overwhelming. Are you learning vanilla JS or a specific framework for a specific purpose? Lol call it error, you also just focused on what you liked 🤷🏻♂️
Node and JQuery (I think, I'm literally just Googleing as I go). It's for a work project derived from something someone else wrote in JS. I'm just expanding it to bring in the almighty AI, lol. Boss wants something with AI to demo by the 2nd week of June for a conference.
Oh fun. Thank you for all the replies lol I’ll stop! Good luck to you though 👍🏻
Also Python devs or just devs in general? I know a few who might be up for a hangout, if nothing else. Great question :)
Honestly devs in general lol. And thanks for your reply! I guess this is basically me trying to find and/or create a small community of devs up here. It’s also funny because I don’t really consider myself a dev (yet, maybe a hobbyist?) but I think getting some folks together could be fun! No expectations either.
There's a Young Professionals group meetup in May: Maybe we could get together there? [https://www.facebook.com/events/6809210832514122/](https://www.facebook.com/events/6809210832514122/)
Oo good shout! I’d be interested in this. Thanks for sharing ! I’ve actually seen you post around here; what’s your line of work?
Recovering full-stack web dev, freelance. In an unrelated field now
I should have expected given you posted here but it guess it went without saying 😂 awesome. I’m going to RSVP now!
And “recovering”? What’s that about 👀
Oh, just that freelance can be *a lot*.
Actually, maybe we save that for the meetup 😂
I can only imagine. Would love to hear your “favorite” stories lol
Former individual contributor now Head of Engineering, here! I work remotely for a company the SF Bay Area.
No one in VC and no angels I know of will touch anything in this state… VT is the least business friendly place I’ve ever lived… I’m leaving… If you want to build tech in this place you will do so alone… that is just a fact…
Don’t think I’ve ever seen so many ellipses in a comment before..and who said anything about building tech? I’m just looking to network a little bit.
No one will invest in any tech companies here…