Hey friends!
May was all about pair programming and achieving the dream together. Now it's time to do a mid-year check in and do some reflection.
💞 Kindness and Gratitude
Spotlighting some of the kindness happening in our community.
"I'm grateful for meeting David at co-working room this morning."
"I’m grateful for Dominic taking care of the Twitter chats each week."
"Thank you for having me, I learned a LOT, from each and everyone of you, whole lot of food for thoughts. I’m incredibly grateful :)"
📆 What's happening at Virtual Coffee
May Recap
💡Monthly Theme & Challenge: Pairing!
Last month the community was all about Pair Programming! We came together to collaborate on each other's projects, share ideas and tips, and just celebrate the collaborative aspects of coding. Together as a community, we got over 30 pairing sessions for the month of May. Thank you to everyone who participated.
June Happenings
💡Monthly Theme & Challenge: Reflect. Reevaluate. Grow.
The Mid-Year Check-In challenge is designed to provide an opportunity for Virtual Coffee members to reflect on their progress, reevaluate goals, and gain clarity on their journey. Let’s pause, assess, and adjust as we reach the halfway point of the year. This challenge aims to encourage personal growth, foster connection within the community, and provide a supportive space for members to share their insights, challenges, and successes.
For this challenge, members are challenged to share insights and support each other as we reflect on our journeys.
☕🪑 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 | Every other Sundays at 1:00 PM ET)
- Indie-startup hackers (Every other Wednesday at 12:00 PM ET — see #indie-startup-hackers)
- The Pack Hunt (Tandem Job Hunting) (Wednesdays at 2:00 PM ET)
- Frontend Friday Folks fighting CSSBattle.dev (Fridays at 11:00 AM ET | Saturdays at 12:00 PM ET)
☕ Official Virtual Coffee Events
- Virtual Coffee (Tuesdays at 9:00 AM ET | Thursdays at 12:00 PM ET)
- TypeScript Tuesday (Tuesdays at 2:00 PM ET on Twitch)
- 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.
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
Some of our member contents we loved in May!
Articles
Videos
- How to model NoSQL one-to-one relationships — Michael Jolley
- Build a Full Stack E-commerce website in React — Om
Member Wins
"I've accepted a place sponsored by Code First Girls on their Product Management course!"
"I created a dictionary app using React! This simple project taught me a lot about the fundamentals of React!!!"
"My talk submission for DevRelCon in London got accepted!!"
"Very Excited! Just completed the Tableau component of a project I've been working on for a few months. The only thing left to do now is to finish organizing the readme and github!"
Dan Ott had his first PR to the React codebase merged in!
What our members are up to
- Chris J. does a weekly post for goals of the week.
- Ayu shared her journey into tech and the Power of Communities on the Women Who Code podcast.
- Nick Taylor's newsletter keeps you up to date with the hot topics in tech.
- Newsletter alert! Code as Gardening: The Rise of AI — Vic Vijayakumar.
- Lucia Cerchie's newsletter is a breath of fresh air in the tech space.
- Dominic Duffin co-hosts ArtTechChat on Twitter every Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
Open Source Projects
- VirtualCoffee.io — a Remix Web App for our community created by Dan Ott
- Intro to Open Source — an open source course to support new contributors to open source
- JESS CSS — a CSS pre-processor that compiles to JavaScript!