mrcleansocks

I'm curious if anyone has good resources for building local real world communities outside of the context for business purposes. I've been a musician for the past 15 years and have participated in my fair share of playing and attending shows all over Southern California.

One thing I always have found interesting is the multitude of communities that partake in doing live events and how those subcultures manifest. They are always in a constant state of flux and there the pockets of people are constantly evolving.

More recently, I've been thinking a lot about organizing events for my own sort of community, but I'm not really 100% sure where to start. I used to book lots of bands in the past but the landscape has changed radically, and now I'd like to do community building with a bit more purpose.

I'm looking for any sort of online research or book recommendations/lectures with people have vast experience building communities that are not primarily focused building community for monetary purposes. I only say this because it seems like a fair amount of businesses have co-opted the phrase community for their own gain, and I'd really like to try to learn about strategies people have developed for building community for the sake of community and nothing else.

That being said, if there is anyone who does music stuff in Southern California that's a bit more interested in chatting about this, I would love to chat.

Video seems relevant for our current situation.

Hi all, I've been tinkering with programming for the last couple years as a hobby and am very interested in learning how to do it at a much deeper level.

I made an attempt to get deeper into it at the beginning of this year by reading some books and started with Eloquent Javascript. I got to around Chapter 6 and it started to get incredibly difficult. I didn't have a hard time understanding most of the concepts at a elementary level, but the examples and exercises that were utilized in the book seemed to jump up in complexity without much explanation at times. I remember spending a few hours on some of the provided examples where I was annotating the code just to help me understand blocks that were 10-12 lines long at most.

I'm not saying this isn't effective, but I guess I'm hoping to find something that ramps up at a bit more of a gradual pace so I don't feel like I'm stalling on one problem for far too long. Those moments can be incredibly frustrating and make the marathon of learning much harder.

I'd ideally like to utilize a resource that helps me compartmentalize the broader landscape of tools in the Javascript/React/Node.js world and then go back to a book like Eloquent Javascript and for further drilling etc.

That being said, I'm curious if The Odin Project is a good place to start? I was looking at the full stack javascript course and it looks like it does some Intermediate HTML/CSS which is definitely the skill range I'd consider myself in. For reference, I've got a lot of experience doing hobbyist server management with Ubuntu Server, Linux CLI programs, Unraid, Docker etc.

Note- I'd prefer an online resource that's free, which is why I ask about the odin project.

I'm a musician and have been a musician for over 10 years. Only recently in the past 4 or 5 years have I really gotten into recording myself on a DAW and if I'm being honest, I've gotten to a point where I can really make some stuff I enjoy. It's not always easy, but I can get some pretty banging tracks going.

this sub-lemmy is the only music related community I've seen so far, but I'm curious how many Lemmy users are also music makers? I produce in Ableton and Bitwig, and do everything from Alternative rock to ambiance, film scores, electronic synth stuff. Not going to share any links though because I don't want this to come off as a self promotional post

Really just curious if maybe theres enough of us to warrant some sort of sub-community for music creation chat.

I just saw this post over on r/modcoord which is basically a massive list of subreddits participating in the blackout protest. If I'm being honest I haven't seen this much anger and coordinated frustration since the era right before the digg exodus.

Assuming more and more subreddits join in, it's going to send a pretty massive message to the users who interact with a blacked out subreddit. Then I'm trying to imagine what happens if after a massive coordinated blackout, Reddit continue on the current trajectory. Is Lemmy even prepared to handle the amount of potential incoming traffic that API closure could lead to? It's absolutely bonkers to me that the Reddit team might just stay the course....