Normally summers are a bit quiet for events, but this year seems like an exception. We’ve had 6(!) TorontoJS events in the last 2 weeks and more on the way. Don’t forget to touch grass!

A top down photo of a room with people seated in chairs and couches forming a semi circle. In front of the people there is a speaker pointing to a presentation. The room is well lit with big windows on the background and lots of sun light coming in.

JS Tech Talk event at Spaces. Photo by Tehseen Chaudhry.

Upcoming events

We have the following TorontoJS events on the docket:

Most Saturdays from 4pm-6pm Danny is hosting JS Code Club: Online on Zoom. This is a mob hacking event where 1 or more people bring projects or problems to work on together. I try to go every week as they’re always inspiring and Danny is a great host. Look out for a link on the #events channel in Slack close to August 12th and August 19th.
On August 30th we also have the monthly JS Social: Online scheduled. A good place to meet like-minded individuals over a snack or drink from the comfort of your home.

Please look for our events calendar on Guild or Meetup for other events and more up to date information.

Also happening in Toronto:

On August 16th at 8pm TechTank is hosting a panel: “I made it through the HELLSCAPE that is job search” featuring 3 panelists on Zoom. A topic a lot of us can relate to. TechTalk is fully community organized, without a commercial angle, so you can expect some honesty without being sold something.

Happening in the community

Peter Liu has built an incredible 3D model editor that uses CSS as a rendering engine.

You can play around with it on his github pages website.

Michal Svatoš has been working on a LCARS-inspired interface for his Pi-Hole. LCARS is the fictional UI in 24th century Star Trek. It looks fantastic and wins Michal the inaugural “Nerd Of The Month award”. Congratulations Michal!

A screenshot of a interface inspired by Star Trek's LCARS, in dark gray and orange.

A few of us also have started working on a public TorontoJS member website, where people in the community can create public profiles and show off their projects. It’s early days, but there’s a Github Repo. Join the Code Club if you want to pitch in!

Industry news & hot takes

Stefan Judis shares a pretty cool (currently Firefox-only) feature to make live minimaps on websites using just CSS. Wild!

Spiffytech writes about ways emoji’s can be detected in strings.

Jobs

If you have an open Job Posting relevant to the members of our community, please send an email to events@torontojs.com.

We’d love to link it in our next newsletter at no cost.

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