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Abner Coimbre 2025-08-12 11:46:03 -07:00
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@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Transforming into a combative individual has become incredibly useful, but there
Handmade meetups are generally awesome and keep growing. We help local programmers find work or make new friends every month. I train and mentor hosts, then they take the reins, so the scene is decentralized and self-sustaining. Meetups are cheap or free to run so I don't have to chase big revenue. Meanwhile, building [Terminal Click](https://terminal.click) as an indie dev is therapy compared to wrangling humans for a living.
A growing number of people who ended their friendships with me have apologized. A couple of examples follow (you may need to open them in a new tab):
An impressive number of people who ended their friendships with me have apologized. A couple of examples follow (you may need to open them in a new tab):
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#### Could things have been different?
Maybe. Without social media or certain incentives for online drama things could've gone differently. A meetup member in Seattle called me a “young grasshopper” as a community organizer. That caught me off guard until I looked around. Important events take time indeed: TED Talks have existed for four decades and then YouTube made it huge; DEFCON is thirty years old; many open-source conferences spent twenty years figuring things out. Wrangling humans is slow and messy.
Maybe. Without social media or perverse incentives for online drama things could've gone differently. A meetup member in Seattle called me a “young grasshopper” as a community organizer. That caught me off guard until I looked around. Important events take time indeed: TED Talks have existed for four decades and then YouTube made it huge; DEFCON is thirty years old; many open-source conferences spent twenty years figuring things out. Wrangling humans is slow and messy.
I’m done running conferences though. Besides the reasons above, they feed the egos of a few “anointed” speakers and require a social-media hustle I won’t play. I’m opting out. I’d rather build stuff that gets people offline: better meetups, our own server racks, and self-hosted tools for programmers making a living with serious Handmade projects.