Hey Friends!
It's the third month of the year and it's time to get job ready! Join us as we work together as a community to get resume ready, interview prepped and get those jobs!
💞 Kindness and Gratitude
Spotlighting some of the kindness happening in our community.
"Grateful for friends who kept me company and made my days in the
#co-working-room"
"I’m honestly just so grateful to be a part of an amazing community that supports and uplifts each other."
"Grateful for this community and for Cris taking time to review my very novice code when I requested critique to get better!"
"I’m grateful for Chris not just for his L&L today but bc he’s stepped up as a volunteer in all the things. He’s an amazing volunteer, speaker, and person willing to try new things."
📆 What's happening at Virtual Coffee
February Recap
💡Monthly Theme & Challenge: Month of Learning!
We spent February picking up some new skills, joining cohorts, and broadening our knowledge!
March: Get Job Ready!
💡Monthly Theme & Challenge: Get Job Ready!
During this month, we're all about Resumes, Cover Letters, and Elevator Pitch. There's never a bad time to update your job application materials.
The goal of this challenge is to work on creating, revising, or updating your job packet materials and that elevator pitch that might get you in the door. Your resume, cover letter, and elevator pitch should work together to tell your story and represent where you are on your career journey; each piece should complement the others. This challenge emphasizes taking time to ensure they work together or get some extra feedback on what you've worked on.
To view all of the details of this year's challenge, check out the March 2024 challenge page on the Virtual Coffee website.
☕🪑 Coffee Table Events
- Tech Interview Study Group (Mondays at 4:00 PM ET)
- Accountabilibuddies (Tuesdays at 7:00 PM ET and Thursdays at 9:00 AM ET)
- The Pack Hunt (Tandem Job Hunting) (Wednesdays at 2:00 PM ET)
- Feelings Friday (Fridays at 10:00 AM ET)
- Frontend Friday Folks fighting CSSBattle.dev (Fridays at 11:00 AM ET)
📅 Weekly Async Events
- Mondays: Goal-setting post in
#goals-and-wins - Tuesdays: Trivia in
#game-night - Wednesdays: Midweek check-in in
#general - Thursdays: New book club questions for Cracking the Coding Interview on GitHub
- Fridays: X (formerly Twitter) chat and gratitude post in
#general
☕ Official Virtual Coffee Events
- Virtual Coffee (Tuesdays at 9:00 AM ET | Thursdays at 12:00 PM ET)
- Async Twitter Chat (Fridays — prompts tweeted out at 9:00 AM ET)
Note: These are the currently scheduled times for these events at the time of this publication. Please check the official VC #announcements Slack channel, or other noted channels, for any updates and links to event rooms. For the full list of events, check out our events page.
🆕 New Career Focus Channels Alert
We've added three new private channels — Senior+, Mid-level, Early-career — to our Slack for peer-to-peer conversation, because we know that it's good to be able to support and nurture conversations specific to your career level. If you're interested in joining the one you identify with most, DM Bekah on Slack.
🤝 Volunteering at VC
We're very excited to continue open membership with the support of our active volunteers! All our active volunteers have an invite to send out to someone interested in joining Virtual Coffee. If you're interested in joining the volunteer team, check out some the roles here!
✨ Member Content Highlights
Our members are making the internet a better place with their words and wisdom!
Articles
- Sarah Dye Returns to Coding in 2024 — Sarah Dye
- A Love Letter to the Underrepresented in Tech — Abbey Perini
- How to Spot and Avoid Job Scams: A Guide for Junior Tech Professionals — Klesta
- Newsletters: the good, the bad and the ugly — Nick Taylor
- A/B tests for eCommerce: Why and how to run A/B tests on your site — Dominic Duffin
Videos
🏆 Member Wins
The VC Team won Dev Post's MLH (Month Long Hackathon)! Huge congratulations to David Akim, Rad Turkin, and Satoshi Shirosaka!!! 🎉
"I gave my first in person conference talk Wednesday and doing my second one today!"
"Just got accepted to speak at StirTrek this year. Shout out to Ryan for helping me polish my abstract!"
"Finally released the mvp of my accessible color palette builder (also my first React project)!"
"I passed the AWS Data Engineer Associate beta I took back in December!"
👀 What our members are up to
- Chris J. does a weekly post for goals of the week.
- Nick Taylor's newsletter keeps you up to date with the hot topics in tech.
- Dominic Duffin co-hosts ArtTechChat on Twitter every Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
- Ray Deck is co-hosting a vid-pod about low code/no code solutions on YouTube!
- Michael Jolley is streaming on twitch!
💻 Open Source Projects
- VirtualCoffee.io — a Remix Web App for our community created by Dan Ott.
- FreeCodeCamps's Developer Quiz Site — A newbie friendly repo that frequently accepts OSS contributions.
- OpenSauced's Docs — A static rendered documentation for open source developer onboarding to OpenSauced's projects.
- Intro to Open Source — An introduction to open source and guide through the process of contributing to projects.
- Python Turtle Art Canvas — The aim of this project is to create a collaborative piece of creative coding using Python Turtle Graphics.
- Hacktoberfest How To — Hugo blog template for Hacktoberfest HOW-TO.
- Classic Memory Game — Memory card game from 1968.
- Tiny Troves of Dev Wisdom — A small Unity 2D game made for Hacktoberfest 2023.
- Elm TTRPG Session — A session manager, ttrpg character builder, and dice roller built with Elm and Lamdera.
If you're a member and you’d like to give a Lunch & Learn or Workshop, you can submit your idea here.
Have a question, suggestion, or want to nominate someone’s act of kindness or blogpost? Email us at hello@virtualcoffee.io.