I much prefer regular meetups if you're looking to branch out and meet new devs. The hackathon style of coding isn't really all that practical - even if you wor

I much prefer regular meetups if you're looking to branch out and meet new devs. The hackathon style of coding isn't really all that practical - even if you work at a mismanaged company that's constantly in "crunch time", coding for the purpose of writing a 5 minute demo takes a very narrow skillset.