We’ve got a great speaker for our March 5 presentation meeting — Laura Savino will present “Learn Out Loud”:

As devs today, we’re supposed to demonstrate immediate skills in tools whose configs change once a fortnight, while shipping cutting-edge features in long-standing apps (that may still have a legacy bug or two). Laura is a trained teacher and Photoshop engineer who brings humor and solidarity to today’s dev environment with concrete advice on the mechanics of real learning and change, including encouraging without proselytizing, being vulnerable about what you don’t know, and staying curious amidst existential dread.

We’ll gush: Laura’s talks are awesome. Well-delivered, thought-inspiring, and fun. We always learn things that make us better.

You should go to this one! Seriously. This is the one.

Where
North Seattle College
9600 College Way N

Room LB 1106 in the library

When
Thursday, March 5, 2026
6:30 pm — gather and mingle
7:00 pm — Laura talks

Afterwards we go to the nearby Watershed Pub and Kitchen (which is all ages friendly).

See you there! 🎩🎸

We’ll be at the usual place and time — Bale Breaker and Yonder Cider in Ballard, Thursday Feb. 19, 7 - 9 pm. Outside in the covered area with the fire things.

Weather’s not looking great, but, again, we have fire! (And it shouldn’t be raining.) So your only excuse for missing it is that you don’t like fire. And that would be a weird thing to not like! 🔥🎩

This Thursday we’ll have a presentation by Geoff Pado on Swift and WASM — a super hot topic!

When: Thursday, Feb. 5. Mingling starts at 6:30 pm; presentation starts at 7 pm

Where: North Seattle College
9600 College Way N, Seattle
Room LB 1105 in the library

Afterwards (optionally, of course) we go to the nearby Watershed Pub and Kitchen, which is open to all ages and is pretty cool.

This Thursday Jan. 15 is the first Xcoders social of the year!

We’ll meet at our usual haunt — Bale Breaker and Yonder Cider in Ballard at 7 pm. Doesn’t look like rain this Thursday, so we will almost certainly be outside. With some fire for warmth. And cover just in case it does rain a little bit.

Tip: if you go to our calendar page and subscribe, you’ll see that we’re getting back to talks soon: there are presentation meetings coming up on Feb. 5 and Mar. 5. 😀