US-based non-enterprise programming conferences?

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What are some US-based conferences for people interested in software or computer science? Topics can be broad or narrow, but ideally:- accessible to a range of working professionals (and not an academic colloquium for a small circle of graduate students)- not focused on enterprise and big business (e.g., not Snowflake Summit or Databricks Summit)- mostly focused on topics in software, computer science, and programming languages (not hardware makers/hackers)- preferably with a strong component of bringing people together in person to share some kind of passion, project, or personal interestSuggestions?

coreyp_1 · Accepted Answer

Honestly, I would love to find someone... ANYONE... near me that would like to talk about stuff they're building.
I'm working on a C++ http client & server library from scratch (planning to support http 1.1, 2 and 3, while most C++ http libraries only support 1.1), and I'm learning a ton of things that I would LOVE to show someone!
I also built a templating language (also in C++) and a worker queue thread pool (C++, being used by the http project).
I would be ABSOLUTELY THRILLED to geek out over someone else's project.
But nobody builds anything for fun. :/
I have programmer friends, but they only program for their job.

vermasque · Answer

https://www.thestrangeloop.com/index.html

alrs · Answer

Language conferences are more inspiring than product/project conferences. Gophercon > Kubecon.

sealeck · Answer

I think some of the Handmade Network events are in the vein that you are interested in.