For me, I had to find some things where you can enjoy it alone, but also find a community and sometimes be social: Roller skating, Pinball tournaments, board games (and board game bars). Pinball especially has been great for me, as it has a near unlimited skill ceiling, but is also fun and interesting even when playing poorly.
To find community, check out Instagram for local people in your hobby, and follow the trail of suggestions to the big local “community” accounts. E.g. my metro has 2-3 big roller skating community-run accounts that announce all of the events.
I personally found that making time for a “hobby” that was also athletic was a huge mood stabilizer and positively impacted the rest of my life as well. Highly recommend!
The state of the docs is what got me to dump all of the links I'd been collecting to useful, but hard to find docs in to a small website -- https://www.iosdev.recipes/
Apple has been doing a great job in some aspects at documenting more and updating things gradually, but at the same time, has been hiding more and more of the "old" docs and it's a shame since many of them are still correct, relevant and useful.
I write reference-style articles on confusing/underused areas of iOS development, and maintain links to hard to find documentation over at https://www.iosdev.recipes
I’m a product-minded iOS and api backend developer looking for interesting teams to work with at any stage of development, from initial prototyping to late-stage maintenance.
I’m a product-minded iOS and api backend developer looking for interesting teams to work with at any stage of development, from initial prototyping to late-stage maintenance.
I specialize in identifying and fixing hard-to-find bugs on iOS and have worked at previous companies to raise crash-free rates dramatically.
For iOS especially, I can help with: Core Data, multi-threading issues (GCD, NSOperationQueue), memory pressure and general performance issues.
Cotap is building mobile tools to help people communicate and collaborate at work. Deloitte, Box, Hyatt Hotels, and Philz Coffee are just a few companies that have experienced the benefits of mobile messaging in the workplace. Our passion is building great products and our goal is to reach everyone who works, regardless of what they do.
Arguably the start of the big community push in that direction was Corey Haines' "Fast Rails Tests" talk, which is really just a clever way of presenting the separation of logic argument. See: http://arrrrcamp.be/videos/2011/corey-haines---fast-rails-te... (or google "fast rails tests corey haines" for other videos)
Hashrocket is hiring a front end web developer. Familiarity with Rails is preferred. Really excellent benefits, and really awesome people to work with.
As someone who's just getting started with Backbone, I'd be very interested to see that talk, and here suggestions for what to do instead of 'this.model.view = this'.
I made a comment below about price changes and how it hurts the usefulness of such reviews, but I also wanted to add that what you mentioned is another example of where the system fails. A 1/5 or 4/5 review that contradicts itself with a single sentence 'this rocked/sucked' isn't useful. We should be forcing people to provide a real review, or not allowing them to do so at all.
What happens when the price changes then? Suppose it's on sale in a month for $1.99 and still is loaded up with 1-star reviews that say "SO OVERPRICED!" -- not very useful then is it? Ideally, I'd love to see a completely independent review source that has common 'tags' that are easily understood. Rather than complain about the price, just check a box that says you don't believe it was a good value at the price, so when someone looks for reviews, they see "Customers don't think this product is a good value at $14.99" (Which is relevant, and useful even if the price changes).
This is why I hate the 'star' review system. It very often leads to users trying to 'punish' the maker of the product, and creates an incorrect perception that the product itself is flawed. This might be a great book, but someone browsing through titles will only see that it has a 1-star rating and assume it sucks. I really think there'd be a lot of potential in some sort of hybrid review system that could weed out these sorts of garbage reviews.
To find community, check out Instagram for local people in your hobby, and follow the trail of suggestions to the big local “community” accounts. E.g. my metro has 2-3 big roller skating community-run accounts that announce all of the events.
I personally found that making time for a “hobby” that was also athletic was a huge mood stabilizer and positively impacted the rest of my life as well. Highly recommend!