From 9a172557d32d389bbcb0ddd16631c0ad3f6312e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: abnercoimbre Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2025 22:21:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Polish x40 Winding Down --- content/english/news/winding-down.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/english/news/winding-down.md b/content/english/news/winding-down.md index f77c51f..c602b25 100644 --- a/content/english/news/winding-down.md +++ b/content/english/news/winding-down.md @@ -71,9 +71,9 @@ Transforming into a combative individual has become incredibly useful, but there #### 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 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 as of late. A couple of examples follow (you may need to open them in a new tab): +An impressive number of people who ended their relationship 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" >}} @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Regardless of what you think of this, I forgave both of them and I'm opting to p #### Could things have been different? -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; DEFCON is thirty years old; many open-source conferences spent twenty years figuring things out. Herding cats is slow and messy. +Maybe. Without social media or perverse incentives for online drama things could've gone differently: in the end this was just one event. In fact a Seattle meetup member called me a “young grasshopper” as a community organizer. That caught me off guard until I looked around. Important things take time indeed: TED Talks have existed for four decades; DEFCON is thirty years old; many open-source conferences spent twenty years figuring things out. Herding cats 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 prefer building stuff that gets people offline: better meetups, our own server racks, and self-hosted tools for indie devs with serious Handmade projects.