MEETUP · MONDAY, AUG 10 · ATLANTA
📌 Career Stories at Atlanta Tech Week
We're teaming up with Atlanta JavaScript, React ATL, Modern Web ATL, and Atlanta Vue.js for a joint meetup during Atlanta Tech Week. Four voices in tech, four fifteen-minute career stories, followed by a panel on where the industry is headed. The lineup:
Hosted and sponsored by CallRail.
📅 Monday, August 10 · 6:30–9:00 PM 📍 CallRail, Atlanta
Registration is required on Luma (not Meetup). Walk-ups can't be admitted, and a valid photo ID is required at security check-in.
MEETUP · WEDNESDAY, JUL 15 · ATLANTA
⏰ RSVPs closing this Sunday: Code Reading Club
If you're in Atlanta, Code Reading Club is back next Wednesday at PrizePicks in West Midtown.
We read code together as a group. No prep, no wrong takes. Just a room of engineers looking at real codebases and talking through what they see. Beginner-friendly and language-agnostic — if you know what a variable is, this is for you.
📅 Wednesday, July 15 · 6:00 PM 📍 PrizePicks, West Midtown Atlanta
🍕 Food and drinks provided by PrizePicks
RSVPs close Sunday, July 12 at midnight. No walk-ups.
MOVIE NIGHT · SATURDAY, AUG 1 · ATLANTA
🎬 404 Movie Not Found: Spider-Man tickets on sale
Our next group movie night: Spider-Man: Brand New Day at Regal Atlantic Station.
Theater seats sell out for opening weekends, so this is the moment to grab yours. Beth, Erica, and Angel are already at seats E9, E8, and E7. Book nearby, drop your seat number in the Discord #events channel, and REFACTR folks will build the row together. RSVP on Meetup too.
Post-movie hangout at Yard House right across from the theater.
📅 Saturday, August 1 · 2:30 PM 📍 Regal Atlantic Station · Screen 6
RADAR · THIS MONTH'S PICKS
📡 July Radar is live
New month, new picks. The July Radar is now up on REFACTR.TECH, with team picks and community submissions across categories: reads, tools, videos, podcasts, and career resources.
Featured in this month's Community Voice: Jerome Hardaway, Founder & Executive Director, Vets Who Code shares how automating a nonprofit before AI was fashionable gave his team room to be more human and the AI tools he's using now to keep it that way.
Want to submit for August? Share them here or drop it in the new #radar channel in our Discord.
SHOP · JUST LAUNCHED
🛍️ The REFACTR store is officially live
You asked, we shipped. The REFACTR store is now open.
Tees, hoodies, and stickers — real merch designed for the people who show up and build community with us. Every purchase supports our free monthly programming and helps us keep events like our tech talks, career panels, and workshops running.
Wherever you're reading from, we ship.
WATCH · NEW ON YOUTUBE
🎥 Two new talks from the May meetup
Fresh from the May meetup and now up on YouTube:
From Snippets to Systems: How Copilot Helped Me Understand Systems Design Allison Higgins on using GitHub Copilot for architectural walkthroughs, why happy-path tests are a trap, and where Copilot is genuinely weakest. 12 minutes.
The Anatomy of Accessible Chat Interfaces Homer Gaines on what it actually takes to make AI chatbots work for screen reader users, keyboard users, and folks with low vision. 25 years of accessibility experience in one talk. 36 minutes.
Not subscribed to our YouTube channel yet? All future meetup recordings will drop there and our previous conference talks, and new video content.
COMMUNITY
👥 Stay Connected
Not in our Discord yet? This is where the day-to-day community lives. Event chats, seat coordination, hot takes, weekend hangs. Join Discord →
In Atlanta and not in the Meetup group yet? 1,900+ members, monthly events, always free. Join on Meetup →
Send us your thoughts. Email us at [email protected].
Whatever this week brings, hope it's a good one. More next month.
See you soon,
The REFACTR.TECH team