Handmade Meetup on Saturday - RSVP Required!

Abner Coimbre is our Handmade Cities founder. You may reach the author at abner@handmadecities.com

Seattle folks,

The last Saturday is upon us, which means our monthly meetup takes center stage. RSVP your seat at the earliest opportunity!

Note: Avoid the “Add to Calendar” button at this time, as there’s an off-by-one bug.

The details:

We’re right next to Roosevelt’s Light Rail. We can’t miss it if we have Apple/Google maps:

• Where: One Bite Cafe (in Seattle)
• When: Saturday, February 28th, 2-4PM
• Parking: There is street parking around the block. However, the most reliable place to park is “Green Lake Park & Ride”

The entire shop is reserved for Handmade, so let’s order snacks and drinks to support this family business!

Saturday’s Presentations (2-4PM)

We start with community news from yours truly, followed by featured presentations. Time permitting, we wrap it all up with roundtable discussions.

Community News

My last opening notes were great fun but I babbled on too much, so I’ll make sure we stick only to important Handmade-related news and updates. We’ll even have someone running a stopwatch for me :)

Featured Presentation #1

Reuben Dunnington is a senior engineer for Rockstar Games. Opinions here do not represent his employer.

In his free time Reuben contributes to Orca: WebAssembly Apps Without the Web. For this presentation you’ll learn how Reuben used Zig to overhaul their crufty Python-based build system. My own life improved A LOT thanks to zig build, so I’m keen to hear how it worked out for another Handmade project.

Outside of Handmade Cities you might find Reuben attending Zig Days. The host for Zig Day usually attends our Handmade meetups too, so you’re welcome to ask Reuben or ScottRedig about it! (The Zig folks did not sponsor nor ask me to promote their event.)

Featured Presentation #2

Charles M. is a staff engineer at Google. Opinions here do not represent his employer.

Our friend Charles recently submitted his proposal to the C standard committee (yes! the real deal!) His presentation, however, is perhaps even cooler than that. To quote the man himself:

My talk is a step-by-step explainer of how I optimized a single function to inline asm, and why the compiler can’t do the same thing.

I can’t wait for it.

Roundtable Discussion

To wrap up the meetup, the roundtable discussion will be on collaboration. Handmade folks are notoriously lone-wolf developers,a nd for good reason: wanting to make a living as indie devs. But doing everything alone carries many risks: what can we do to mitigate them?

I will moderate the roundtable to ensure it’s insightful and everyone has an opportunity to speak. Please submit future roundtables by emailing me at abner@handmadecities.com or our support staff at support@handmadecities.com.

Seattle After Dark (4-7PM) 🍕

As always, between 4:00 - 4:30PM we will wind down the official meetup and make our way to dinner and drinks. “After Dark” is optional, but during this time I moderate very little, which lets community members get spicier with their takes on our industry as a whole. It’s a hoot.

See you Saturday at 2PM,
Abner Coimbre