Ask HN: Casual hacking in bay area?

5 points by yagyu 9y ago ↗ HN

I just arrived in the bay area as a postdoc (not CS) at Stanford. In spare time I enjoy dabbling with web apps and random side projects.

Where can I go to meet others and have company while hacking? Could be very casual like sitting in a cafe hacking for a while, or more organized like a user group meeting with talks. Are there any meetup lists/groups?

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CalChris 9y ago ↗

In Oakland, that's on the other side of the Bay, there's sudoroom and Ace Monster Toys:

https://sudoroom.org/

https://www.acemonstertoys.org/

fuqted 9y ago ↗

I've been to the sudo room but I haven't heard of AMT. Thanks.

fern12 9y ago ↗

http://www.hackerdojo.com/

ely-s 9y ago ↗

There's a meetup for your favorite JS library here, but I haven't found a group that I deeply enjoy going to yet. The challenge has been finding the right proportions of casualness, skill, and drive to actually build something in a group.

I'm not far from Stanford, so I would also be interested in a good answer to this.