Hey Friends!
After a lot of hard work from our presenters and organizers, Lightning Talks are complete! Next up is making the time to share good cheer with all the great people in this community.
💞 Kindness and Gratitude
Spotlighting some of the kindness happening in our community.
"I'm grateful for Ethan running Feelings Friday."
"Super grateful to Andy for his detailed feedback."
"Thanks so much, Vic, for helping me troubleshoot my server issues!"
📆 What's happening at Virtual Coffee
April Recap
💡Monthly Theme & Challenge: Public Speaking!
We spent the month getting back in conf talk mode, supporting each other's public personas and rounding things off with our annual LIGHTNING TALKS. Thank you so so much to all who participated. To learn more you can always check out our website, and you can check out a recap of the full lightning talk stream here!
May: Community Kindness!
💡Monthly Theme & Challenge: Community Kindness!
As we work hard to make sure this community continues to be the special and close-knit group, this challenge encourages our members to celebrate one of the things that continually makes this community so special: Kindness. Some of the ways we see this include: practicing gratitude, reaching out to support other members, mentoring, helping, giving honest and constructive feedback, and continuing to make Virtual Coffee a safe and supportive space.
To view all of the details of this month's challenge, check out the May 2024 challenge page and Bekah's blog post.
☕🪑 Coffee Table Events
- Tech Interview Study Group (Mondays at 4:00 PM ET)
- Accountabilibuddies (Tuesdays at 7:00 PM ET | Thursdays at 9:00 AM ET)
- The Pack Hunt (Tandem Job Hunting) (Wednesdays at 2:00 PM ET)
- Feelings Friday (Fridays at 8:00 PM 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 - Fridays:
- Rust Learning Cohort check-in in
#learning-together - X (formerly Twitter) chat and gratitude post in
#general
- Rust Learning Cohort check-in in
☕ Official Virtual Coffee Events
- Virtual Coffee (Tuesdays at 9:00 AM ET | Thursdays at 12:00 PM ET)
- Async Twitter Chat (Weekly chat begins every Friday 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 or Meg 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
- The Secret Recipe to Getting Your Pull Requests Reviewed (and Merged) Faster — Ayu Adiati
- Managing User Focus with :focus-visible — Chris DeMars
- Form and Function: How I Lost My Submit Button & Got It Back — Nick Taylor
- Why I rarely use `getByRole`: Testing Library and the first rule of ARIA — Mark Noonan
Videos
🏆 Member Wins
"Just did my first PR on OpenSauced this morning (and it got merged)!"
"Finished the rough cut of all my slides and content this morning for a new talk I'm giving on Friday."
"I attended an in-person networking event for coders in my area, and had a first round interview with a company."
"Joined Hack for LA, and completed my first ever GitHub issue. Waiting for the PR to be merged."
"Officially 30,000 words into my first novel!"
👀 What our members are up to
- Chris J. does a weekly post for goals of the week.
- 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 blog post? Email us at hello@virtualcoffee.io.