Hey friends!
April was a blast and May is looking just as exciting. There are so many great things happening in the community and we can't wait to share them with you!
💞 Community Kindness
Spotlighting some of the kindness happening in our community.
- Just wanna say a HUGGGGEEE thank you to Mike for helping me on Sunday prep for my upcoming dev portfolio talk tomorrow. Even though public speaking makes my legs shake, his enthusiasm and amazing feedback really made me feel like I can actually do the thing!!! If only the whole audience was full of Mikes!!! - Annie
- Thankful for Dan Ott making the new co-working room - opens up new possibilities of what VC can do for its community. - Ray
- A big shout out to Aurelie, Mike, Marie, Courtney, and everyone in the #tech-interview-study-group for energy they bring to the group, yesterday was my first meeting and came out with a big bag of good tips and learning notes. You all are awesome And Julia for bringing a special guest - Vanessa
📆 What's happening at Virtual Coffee
April Recap:
- Monthly challenge > Month of Kindness!
- New members: ~22 new members
May Happenings:
💡Monthly Challenge: Month of Feedback!
We know that being a developer is more than writing code, so this month we're working on providing each other with honest and empathetic feedback. For the month of May, we're asking members to both ask for feedback and to give feedback to others. It could be on a blog post, an idea, a coding project, a talk, or whatever you could use feedback on. And to go along with our monthly theme, we're also collecting resources on how to give good feedback.
🎙️ Podcasts
Season Two is officially here!
- Gant Laborde: Finding your Voice
- Lucia Cerchie: Mom life and finding your confidence
- Glen McCallum: From IC to Engineering Manager, and the lessons learned along the way
- Debra-Kaye Elliott: The Self-Taught Developer Journey
🥪 Brownbags
- May 7, 12:00am EDT > Brownbag Session: Chess & Usability with Jessi Shakarian
- May 10, 12:00pm EDT > Brownbag Session: How to Promote Yourself to Potential Employers with Abbey Perini
- May 21, 12:00pm EDT > Brownbag: Raise your Voice with Meryl Dominguez
Member Blog Post Highlights
Some of our member posts we loved in May
- Don't Give Up - Todd Libby
- Breaking Into Tech - Tips from a Former Recruiting Admin - Abbey Perini
- The Remote Work Starter Kit: Desktop Edition - Gant Laborde
- The Most Interesting Bug Ever - Vic Vijayakumar
- There's a new VScode SASS compiler in town - Christine Golden
Slack Love
Thank you to everyone for their support and encouragement. VC has been so instrumental in my 2021 journey and I am very thankful for everyone."
Grateful for VC. This community keeps me going, you have no idea 💙."
Grateful, always, for this awesome community and the support of people like @ray Deck, @tom Cudd and @ryan Lynch who take the time to help me understand things that feel like they’re way over my head."
What our members are up to
- It's no coincidence that 5/6 CodeNewbie Community spotlights are Virtual Coffee members! Congratulations to Ayu on being the latest spotlight!
- Katherine Peterson wrote a cool tool to help with Readmes!
- Also, this happened;)
Open Source Projects We Love!
- VirtualCoffee.io, an 11ty Web App for our community created by Dan Ott
- Protege.dev, a React Web App to help junior devs find remote jobs by Drew Clements
- Postpartum Wellness App, a React Native project by BekahHW