Coffee 'n' Code
A biweekly in-person developer meetup in Brampton, Ontario. Running since 2018.
Why I run this
Every other Saturday at 11am I drive over to Springdale Library in Brampton and meet up with whoever shows. Sometimes it's four people. Sometimes it's fourteen. Sometimes a senior dev who wants to talk shop, sometimes a high-school student trying to figure out if computer science is for them. It's been running since 2018.
I started it because of something I noticed at SPS Commerce, where I was working at the time. A lot of what makes being a developer good — thinking out loud with someone, swapping problems, picking up things in the hallway you'd never find in docs — comes from having people around you who do the same work. I was already entrepreneurial enough to know I didn't want to work full-time for a company forever. But if I was going to be out on my own, I needed to find the collaborative-peers-around-me thing somewhere other than a company. So I started building it.
The reason it's still running, almost eight years later, is simpler: showing up. Local developer community doesn't happen on its own.
What it actually is
A biweekly in-person developer meetup in Brampton, Ontario.
Every other Saturday, 11am–1pm EST
Springdale Library, Brampton
Anyone who writes code, or wants to. No level filter — we range from people in their first CS class to people with twenty-plus years in. Free.
Loose. People bring what they're working on, what they're stuck on, what they're curious about. Any tech topic is fair game. Sometimes we plan a theme, mostly we don't.
There's also a Discord that runs between sessions — async questions.
Want to come?
Next session and full details at coffeeandcode.space — or just show up.