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Outside of work (which is great), my main personal battle at the moment is adapting to yet another foreign country. Have done quite a bit of moving around in m

Outside of work (which is great), my main personal battle at the moment is adapting to yet another foreign country. Have done quite a bit of moving around in my life but this time it was for a relationship (i.e. not for work or studies) and given that I work remotely, it's very hard to integrate into society. I know no one and don't have a place like an office where I get to cover my social needs (no coworking spaces around either). And then on the side trying to get back into writing. I had a brief stint as a reasonably popular/successful independent technical writer, but now starting up a separate blog for deeper, more unstructured pieces about anything really. It's a bit of therapy too, following a year with its ups and downs.

luxpir 5y ago
Link that blog!
- yakkomajuri 5y ago
  yakkomajuri.github.io :D The piece about how I made it did appear here not too long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28837760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28837760
readonthegoapp 5y ago
curious if you tried to start your own coworking space. not necessarily 'officially', because that could be a massive undertaing - but more, you just let people know hey i'm going to this cafe from about 8 am to 11 am Tuesday mornings. then put some cool name on it.
- yakkomajuri 5y ago
  This is definitely not a bad idea. I have become a regular at a cafe that I go to on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and met a few people around there, including some other devs. I do wonder where to "advertize" this though. I've ran a Meetup group in the past but that's not a thing here. Facebook would probably be the way, except I don't have an account (does make life harder at times). But I will consider this, thanks!
  - readonthegoapp 5y ago
    i created a laptop sticker to semi-advertize my openness to talking to other indie hackers and it's worked a little bit. i prob look like a mean asshole most of the time when i'm hacking (and most other times), so this is somewhat intended to explicitly invite people to break thru that barrier if they might be so inclined: https://imgur.com/a/UZaH1Wa https://imgur.com/a/UZaH1Wa i didn't want an official meetup, nor an unofficial meetup, maybe just a passive but not-completely-passive way to strike up conversations with folks who were trying to live that lifestyle, or just nerds, etc. so far, the first and only dude to ask me explicitly, "What are you hacking?" -- i was like, "Whhut??"
    - yakkomajuri 5y ago
      Oh I do love this idea! A sticker could probably go a long way. You do notice some people looking around as if wanting to talk but few people ever take the first step. Especially when it comes to the Nordic countries, providing "explicit consent to bother me" via a sticker could be quite useful.

luxpir 5y ago

Link that blog!

yakkomajuri 5y ago
yakkomajuri.github.io :D The piece about how I made it did appear here not too long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28837760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28837760

readonthegoapp 5y ago

curious if you tried to start your own coworking space. not necessarily 'officially', because that could be a massive undertaing - but more, you just let people know hey i'm going to this cafe from about 8 am to 11 am Tuesday mornings. then put some cool name on it.

yakkomajuri 5y ago
This is definitely not a bad idea. I have become a regular at a cafe that I go to on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and met a few people around there, including some other devs. I do wonder where to "advertize" this though. I've ran a Meetup group in the past but that's not a thing here. Facebook would probably be the way, except I don't have an account (does make life harder at times). But I will consider this, thanks!
- readonthegoapp 5y ago
  i created a laptop sticker to semi-advertize my openness to talking to other indie hackers and it's worked a little bit. i prob look like a mean asshole most of the time when i'm hacking (and most other times), so this is somewhat intended to explicitly invite people to break thru that barrier if they might be so inclined: https://imgur.com/a/UZaH1Wa https://imgur.com/a/UZaH1Wa i didn't want an official meetup, nor an unofficial meetup, maybe just a passive but not-completely-passive way to strike up conversations with folks who were trying to live that lifestyle, or just nerds, etc. so far, the first and only dude to ask me explicitly, "What are you hacking?" -- i was like, "Whhut??"
  - yakkomajuri 5y ago
    Oh I do love this idea! A sticker could probably go a long way. You do notice some people looking around as if wanting to talk but few people ever take the first step. Especially when it comes to the Nordic countries, providing "explicit consent to bother me" via a sticker could be quite useful.