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.<p>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?
In Oakland, that's on the other side of the Bay, there's <i>sudoroom</i> and <i>Ace Monster Toys</i>:<p><a href="https://sudoroom.org/" rel="nofollow">https://sudoroom.org/</a><p><a href="https://www.acemonstertoys.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.acemonstertoys.org/</a>
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.<p>I'm not far from Stanford, so I would also be interested in a good answer to this.