I rebooted my social life

kept by eddie jan 03

A remote worker who felt socially isolated rebuilt an active local community by regularly hosting a low-pressure, recurring social gathering, proving that intentional effort can fill the third-space void.

‘Hacks’ and the Case for Age-Gap Friendship
Cross-generational friendships provide unique emotional and cognitive benefits that are increasingly scarce in a socially fragmented era.
also on #social-connections
What They Don't Tell You About Maintaining an Open Source Project ~ andrej acevski
Maintaining an open-source self-hosted kanban board involves relentless documentation, user support, scary database migrations, and careful scope management far beyond building the initial product.
also on #community-building
the context is the work (what the day-to-day looks like now)
Coding agents make implementation cheap but shift engineering difficulty to defining context, constraints, and verification, making PR descriptions the new center of work.
also on #remote-work