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2021 Lightning Talks MC Script

  • Welcome everyone! We're getting started on time, we just want to give people a couple of minutes to come in and get settled.

  • As we all get settled in, I'll give a brief overview of what we've been up to. Virtual Coffee started as a once a week zoom chat in April 2020, and has grown into a community of devs at all stages of the journey, meeting, mentoring, hosting events, and most importantly, making friends. Our mission is to form community, allow room for growth and mentorship at all levels, and to provide a safe space for everyone interested in tech. To find our code of conduct, events, or to learn more, you can check out our website virtualcoffee.io.

  • We've started off the year great with a talk every week, the lightning talks today, an active slack, and our continuous Tues/Thursday coffees.

  • We're really glad to have you all here with us today, and I especially want to thank our speakers for being here and for the lightning talk team for all the work they put into making this a VC event.

  • Today's event will be livestreamed, recorded, and posted online as individual talks.

  • Because lightning talks are an introduction into a topic, and here at Virtual Coffee a good way to ease into speaking or gauge interest for a Lunch & Learn topic, we won't be taking questions as part of the event, but I'll be tagging the speaker and their topic in the #event-chat channel in slack so please feel free to add questions, comments, or general positivity there.

I'm very excited for this, and we're going to kick it off with my talk: The Joy of Dev Life: A Bob Ross Approach.

Next Speaker intro​

  • A special thank you to {speaker}. That was a great look at {topic}. Just a reminder to throw all of your questions in the #event-chat channel, and be sure to tag @{speakername}. Up next, we have {speaker} who is talking about {topic}. Intro speaker with {bio}

Rafi - IPFS- Interplanetary File System​

  • Bio: Rafi a developer who works mostly in Javascript. He build things, talk tech and write things. He also loves learning human languages 🙂

Vic - Building minimum viable products with low-code tools​

  • BIO: Vic is a principal software engineer at Research Square, a preprint platform. When he’s not at his day job he works on his bootstrapped startup Everyoak - a school management system. Vic is addicted to building things.

Barbara - Coding Challenges: Not just for whiteboarding​

  • Barbara is currently transitioning into a new career as a full-stack developer from life as a stay-at-home parent to two wild little ones. When she's not solving coding challenges or building clients' sites she enjoys reading all the books, learning spoken languages, and picking up random hobbies like balloon animal twisting.

Mike - Dockerizing Application​

Chris - A11Y​

  • Bio: Chris DeMars is a Developer Advocate at Rocket Mortgage, the nation’s largest lender, based in Detroit, Michigan. He has over 20 years of technical experience and speaks all over the world on web accessibility, and CSS. For his community contributions, he holds awards as a Microsoft MVP, Google Developer Expert, and Cloudinary Media Developer Expert. Chris loves coming up with solutions for all types of applications, which include modular CSS architectures, performance, and advocating for web accessibility. When he is not working on making the web great and inclusive you can find him writing blog posts, rating Detroit Style Pizza, and watching horror movies.

10 Minute Intermission​

We're going to take a ten minute intermission. We want to thank Brittany Lindgren for coordinating our intermission music, which is written by her husband Marc Griffin I'm going to drop his links in YouTube chat and the #events-chat in slack:

https://soundcloud.com/marcgriffin https://marc-and-britt.bandcamp.com/ https://anywaysoon.bandcamp.com/

Kirk - Fuzz-Testing in Typescript​

  • A full stack developer in the Caribbean interested in Functional Programming, Domain Driven Development, and Security

Courtney - Breaking down coding problems in interviews​

  • Courtney is a software engineer currently working at an early-stage startup in the Education Technology space. Previously in the medical imaging field, she’s been working in the industry since 2019 after obtaining her Master’s in Information Sciences. She works on full-stack web applications using primarily TypeScript and JavaScript, built on a cloud platform. For fun she likes to run, play board games with her family, and (when safe) patronize local independent restaurants and breweries.

Glen - My journey from independent contributor to engineering manager​

  • Glen McCallum is a builder of things, sometimes software, with a Masters in Computer Science. A true INFJ, he likes helping people without drawing attention to himself. He works as an Engineering Manager for Independent Publishers Group. Ex-Oracle. Herder of goats. Proud owner of an artificial pancreas.

Nerando: ReadMes .... yup, they are magical​

  • enjoys using programming to solve problems. Nerando has been a community organizer for freeCodeCamp Atlanta for over the last two - three years. Most recently, he recently completed the Flatiron School's FullStack Software Engineering Immersive (completed Sept 2019) and has been a QA/ Jnr Software Engineer at WarnerMedia. He like to cook and collect Legoes.

Todd - Start your A11y Journey: How to Become an Accessibility Advocate​

  • Todd Libby is a web developer, designer, and accessibility advocate from South Portland, Maine with over twenty years of professional experience, over forty years of programming experience total. Having been self-taught in everything from BASIC to React, Todd is an avid developer, loves what he does, and has a passion for learning, teaching, advocating and lobster rolls.

Dan - Graceful Solutions to Tricky Layouts w/ CSS Grid​

  • Dan is your friendly neighborhood co-organizer of Cleveland React. Front-end developer, maintainer at https://VirtualCoffee.io, and father to two ridiculous little boys.

OUTRO​

  • Thank you all for being here today, especially our speakers and lightning talk team. We look forward to keeping this discussion going in slack, but don't forget we have a social hour coming up next. You can join us there by following the link posted in announcements.

  • As always if you have questions or comments, please feel free to reach out. We're always here to support you and to answer any question. You can ping us in slack, on Twitter @VirtualCoffeeIO or email us at hello@VirtualCoffee.io

  • Hope to see you in the social hour, but if not have a great day, everyone!