Merge pull request #189 from austinjavascript/joah/add-april-and-may

add april and may 2025

Author: joahg

_meetups/2025-04-15-meetup.md

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+layout: meetup
+title: "Effect-TS: Engineering Reliable Open Source Systems"
+slides: 
+video:
+speakers:
+  - name: David Bowman
+    title:
+    avatar: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/42383060?v=4
+    bio:
+    email:
+    homepage: https://www.theinnovationlab.dev/
+    twitter: davidlbowman
+    github: davidlbowman
+    linkedin: davidlbowman
+sponsor: cloudflare
+venue: cloudflare
+after: Zilker Brewing Company
+organizers:
+  - kkipp
+  - joahg
+---
+
+We'll explore the architectural patterns and practices for developing enterprise-ready open-source software using Effect-TS. The session will demonstrate how functional programming principles, through Effect-TS, provide robust solutions for complex enterprise requirements, including error handling, observability, and concurrency management.
+
+Attendees will learn practical techniques for creating specialized effects, designing comprehensive error types, and implementing generation functions that enhance maintainability and scalability. The lecture will showcase these concepts through a HIPAA-compliant medical application lens, illustrating how Effect-TS elegantly addresses the stringent requirements of healthcare software—including audit logging, secure data handling, and regulatory compliance. The session will also cover advanced topics such as building observation services for telemetry and leveraging fiber-based concurrency to create responsive applications that maintain data integrity under load. By examining these enterprise patterns in Effect-TS, developers will gain valuable insights applicable to any industry requiring high reliability, security, and maintainability in their open-source software projects.

_meetups/2025-05-20-meetup.md

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+---
+layout: meetup
+title: "Vibe Coding a Tamagotchi in Next.js"
+slides: 
+video:
+speakers:
+  - name: Andrew Njoo
+    title: 
+    avatar: https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D5603AQFsSreCl2gSTQ/profile-displayphoto-shrink_800_800/profile-displayphoto-shrink_800_800/0/1710358509687?e=1753920000&v=beta&t=f590cwSR3lZW-rKKx8k21ZCHBfNPMo3HgKU713RwpV4
+    bio:
+    email:
+    homepage:
+    twitter: 
+    github: 
+    linkedin: 
+sponsor: cloudflare
+venue: cloudflare
+after: Zilker Brewing Company
+organizers:
+  - kkipp
+  - joahg
+---
+
+Ever wanted to build something just for the vibes? In this talk, I’ll walk through how I prototyped a Tamagotchi-style app using Next.js and TailwindCSS — not for a client, not for a launch, but just to explore joy in coding. We'll cover core frontend logic (state management, time-based updates), CSS animations, and light gamification. The goal isn’t perfection — it's flow, play, and remembering why we started coding in the first place. Expect code demos, a few laughs, and maybe even a virtual pet revival.