This month, Chris Parrish joins the show to put a cap on 2020. It mostly turns into gushing over the M1 Macs and speculating about the bright future of the Mac. Have a safe, happy new year everyone!
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This month, long-time Xcoder Jake Savin joins the show to chat about going from a music career to the tech industry, eventually winding up at UserLand Software, and making his way up to Seattle. Later Jared and Jake talk a bit about the consulting industry and Jake has some helpful tips for current (or future) consultants – and really anyone dealing with any kind of customer.
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This month, Rick Wolter joins the show to talk about his experience learning how to code while imprisoned, and the new group he’s started up to help formerliy incarcerated people transition into careers in the software industry. If you’re interested in Underdog Devs, please reach out to them on Twitter.
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This month, Joe Heck joins the show to talk about the origins of Xcoders on the eve of our 16th anniversary, and we dive a bit into the reactive world of Combine!
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This month, Jared is joined by Eugene Berezin and they chat about Eugene’s history in tech, a bit about video blogging (and blogging in general), and what’s got them excited from WWDC.
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This month, Brent Simmons joins the show to talk about WWDC, Macs, and some career advice for how to persevere in the software industry.
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This month, Jared is joined by Mark Boszko – formerly of The Omni Group – to talk about his history, his job search, and a little bit of Tiki.
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(The below statement was written for our meeting tonight — but it should be said publicly as well, to help make sure it’s not missed.)
We’d like to take a moment to express Xcoders’ support for the Black Lives Matter movement and the continuing protests in Seattle and around the country. Xcoders believes in justice for the Black members of our community.
As a group, Xcoders remains dedicated to offering a welcoming space for members of the tech community interested in sharing their work. Especially now, we would be thrilled to help increase the visibility of Black members (old or new) wanting to share their skills or experience by hosting talks, offering podcast appearances, or publicizing blog posts.
As individuals, many Xcoders attendees have an extraordinary amount of privilege, and the ability to effect change in our teams, companies, and cities. We’d like to ask everyone here tonight to take some time to think about how you can engage with these issues. Whether that means educating yourself on the challenges facing Black Americans, fixing an injustice in your workplace, setting up a recurring donation, or participating in tomorrow’s Black Lives Matter march in Seattle, we encourage everyone to show their own support.
Our Xcoders meeting on Twitch is totally still on tonight! See the previous post for details.
However, the presentation won’t happen tonight due to personal reasons. We plan to reschedule as soon as we can.
Seattle Xcoders returns! We’re doing a virtual meeting on Twitch this Thursday June 11 at 7 pm.
Paul Goracke will present “Thinking in Rectangles.” Attendees will be able to chat on Twitch (with a free account) or on the Xcoders Slack group.
We’re so happy to be back — and we hope you’ll join us!
Our May episode of the Xcoders podcast is out. We are starting a signal boosting theme where people looking for work come on the show. I’m really happy with how this first one with Brian Covey (@hidvorak) turned out!
This month, Jared is joined by Brian Covey, former Support Human at the Omni Group and current free agent in the job market. He shares a bit of what he did at Omni, what he’s looking for in his next role, and his (relatively recent) history with Xcoders. You should hire him!
If you are looking for a job and want to be on the show, please send an email so we can talk!
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This month we have a special treat: guests Tim Ekl and Olof Hellman join the show to have a discussion about programmatic Xcode project generation — specifically using XcodeGen. This is a fun one.
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Online meeting tonight! Let’s all go to the Xcoders Slack group at 7 pm Pacific, in the #general channel, where we’ll catch up with each other — and also talk about ideas for future meetings.
Maybe we’ll start doing video things? Let’s figure it out. 👍
This month, Allen Pike joins the show to talk about Vancouver Xcoders, their origins as VanCocoa, and a bit about Vancouver in general.
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All Xcoders and NSCoder Night events are canceled through April.
The next possible Xcoders meeting is Thursday, May 14 — but our top priority is safety, and we will listen to local officials and do the right thing.
The soon-to-be-renamed Wayward Coffeehouse has been the home of NSCoder Night for years. They’ve been so great to us: asking little and providing so much.
But, like many businesses, they’ve been hit hard by the public health crisis. They’ve put up a GoFundMe page: Keep our Geeky Gathering Grounds in business.
If you can help them get through this rough patch, they’d appreciate it, and Xcoders would appreciate it. They’re a big part of our community.
Thank you!
Due to public health risks, we’re canceling NSCoder Night, normally every Tuesday, and the next Xcoders (March 12).
We don’t know when we’ll be able to hold these meetings again, but we’ll continue to reassess as conditions change, and we’ll make announcements here.
It’s NSCoder Night Seattle tonight! It’s at the (soon-to-be-renamed) Wayward Coffeehouse (6411 Roosevelt Way NE). From 7 to 10 pm.
Please attend at your own discretion, and be sure to consider the health of other people besides your own.
It’s NSCoder Night Seattle tonight! Like every Tuesday night, it’s at the (soon-to-be-renamed) Wayward Coffeehouse (6411 Roosevelt Way NE). From 7 to 10 pm.
Bring a laptop and a project. Come hang out with humans — we think you’ll find that humans can actually be delightful. :)
This month, Jared is joined by Benji Dodgson who hasn’t made it to a group yet but promises to make it out to the February gathering :wink:. Benji is an iOS engineer at Tomorrow and is launching a new, more humane social network into beta very soon.
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Seattle Xcoders is this Thursday night at 6:30 pm at Zulily.
David Norman will present “Exploring 6,000 Unit Tests,” about the similarities and differences in testing approaches taken by apps such as Wikipedia, Firefox, Wordpress, and others.
See you there!
NSCoder Night Seattle is tonight! It’s every Tuesday night at the (soon-to-be-renamed) Wayward Coffeehouse (6411 Roosevelt Way NE). From 7 to 10 pm.
Bring a laptop, bring a project, bring the fun!
It’s NSCoder Night Seattle tonight! Like every Tuesday night, it’s at the (soon-to-be-renamed) Wayward Coffeehouse (6411 Roosevelt Way NE). From 7 to 10 pm.
Bring a laptop and a project. Come hang out with humans. Humans like you. (They really do.) :)
Seattle Xcoders Fifth Thursday is this week!
It’s purely social. And — important note — our fifth Thursday thing always happens at the Waterwheel Lounge in Ballard. (Not Cyclops!) Starting time is around 6:30 — but some people will get there earlier and some later.