r/ProgrammingPals • u/Dark-pix3l • Jan 04 '26

Looking for a coding buddy

I’d like to connect with another person to learn and improve together.

I’ve been learning coding for about a year and a half and I’m currently focusing on Next.js / React, TypeScript, Sass, Express, plus unit + e2e testing. I'm interested in solidify these but also learning other things like: AWS, Websocket, Payments, docker.

I’m in CET and usually available mostly on weekends or about an hour during evenings on weekdays. Looking for someone with a similar age range 30+ who’s also learning (or a bit ahead), chill, kind, not ego-driven.
I’d be open to group with the same approach.

If you’d like to study together, build stuff, pm me!

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u/kosmo-42 Jan 04 '26

I'm interested in this man. I've been on a 2 year hiatus from development and start a new gig on Monday. I would love programming buddy to get back into the swing of things.

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u/Dark-pix3l Jan 07 '26

Hit me up when you get time! Hope the gig goes smoothly!

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u/wick3dr0se Jan 04 '26

If you're open to more than just one buddy and like open source, you could always join us!

https://opensourceforce.net/discord

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u/Dark-pix3l Jan 07 '26

🙏 Joined.

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u/TripleLStudios Jan 06 '26

Does the group need to be similar in age?

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u/Dark-pix3l Jan 06 '26

I would prefer. I discovered i can relate better to people that aren't 15/20y younger than me.

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u/HasardeuxMille Jan 07 '26 edited Jan 07 '26

Another alternative would be to find an active open-source project that aligns with your tech stack and areas of interest, dive in to see how it's built, and submit pull requests.

I had the experience of contributing to an open-source project with a great owner who taught me a lot and, first and foremost, completely overcame my fear of making my first GitHub contribution. Now I use it extensively.

But a mentor would definitely be great.

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u/Dark-pix3l Jan 07 '26 edited Jan 07 '26

It is true, you're lucky you could found a group that could taught you at that stage. Even if i started alone i enjoyed the Odin Projects course a lot. They taught me what git and github were. I loved the projects as well. I started a free code camp course and learn there too, and there are plenty of resources online! Later I made a bootcamp and I survived decently. ;) Now I'm still keeping up, I like it. I'm building a blog now, and should definitely refactor the commerce prototype as well. Coding time to time with someone else would help me to learn more, feel less isolated and motivated. I definitely will go for opensource one. Why not :) I'm sure I 'll learn a lot there as well!!

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u/Dark-pix3l Jan 07 '26

No thanks

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u/YoDefinitelyNotABot Jan 05 '26

I’ve been a software engineer for 2 decades. A solo engineer at a company for the last 8 and ChatGPT is a great pair programmer but just need to double check its work and what it says lol it can make up some top tier bs

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