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1. **Financial**
I hinted at economic trouble at the beginning of [this](/news/summer-update-2025/) summer update and in the bottom section of my Terminal Click [announcement](https://terminal.click/posts/2025/07/open-beta/). It's common knowledge profitable conferences are a dying species and I'm surprised I've lasted this long: Deconstruct, Strangeloop, Bang Bang Con, XOXO and other small-to-medium sized events vanished. Even corporate-backed conferences are no longer around: O'Reilly, Xfest, E3 and so on went away.
I hinted at economic trouble at the beginning of [this](/news/summer-update-2025/) summer update and in the bottom section of my Terminal Click [announcement](https://terminal.click/posts/2025/07/open-beta/). It's common knowledge profitable conferences are a dying breed and I'm surprised I've lasted this long: Deconstruct, Strangeloop, Bang Bang Con, XOXO and other small-to-medium sized events vanished. Even corporate-backed conferences are no longer around: O'Reilly, Xfest, E3 and so on went away.
2. **Personal**
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Warning: This is very dark stuff, and he torched our relationship. Criticism is one thing but this is something else. A lot of people inexplicably saw it before me. Here was my 1-minute response to his half-hour video:
Warning: This is very dark stuff, and he torched our relationship. Criticism is one thing but this is something else. A lot of people inexplicably saw it before I could. Here was my 1-minute response to his half-hour video:
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#### Nature is healing
The Handmade meetups are awesome and they keep growing. We nerd out with demos and side projects. 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 a full-time indie dev is therapy compared to wrangling humans for a living.
The Handmade meetups are awesome and they keep growing. We nerd out with demos and side projects. 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 a indie dev is therapy compared to wrangling humans for a living.
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):
An impressive number of people who ended their friendships with me have apologized as of late. A couple of examples follow (you may need to open them in a new tab):
{{< image src="images/hmc/close_friend_apology.png" caption="Close Friend Apology" alt="Close Friend Apology" height="1114" width="255" position="center" command="fill" option="q100" class="img-fluid" title="Close Friend Apology" webp="false" >}}