🎬 404 Movie Not Found: Spider-Man Matinee

We’re bringing this series IRL with a group outing to see
Spider-Man: Brand New Day

📅 Aug 1 · Afternoon (TBD)
📍 Atlantic Station

🍻 After: Yard House

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📖 Code Reading Club — Apr 15

Read real code, break it down, and build intuition for how systems work.

✨ April session led by Dan Jutan

📍 PrizePicks ATL · 6–8:30 PM
⚠️ RSVP by April 12
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🍻 Out of Office Hours: Happy Hour

New series focused on connecting outside of structured events. Come meet people, hang out, and have real convos.

📅 June 10 · 6–8 PM
📍 Westside Motor Lounge

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🧠 Joint Meetup: Designing Intelligent Systems

📅 May 19 · 6:30–8:30 PM
📍 Tech Square ATL

Homer Gaines — Accessible AI interfaces
Allison Higgins — Copilot + systems thinking

Fireside chat

With ATL JS, React ATL, Modern Web + ATL Vue

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#AtlantaTech #AI

Code Reading Club Sharpen your code-reading skills! Join us to explore unfamiliar code together—no matter your level or language. Fresh eyes welcome!

📖 Code Reading Club

One of the most underrated dev skills? Reading code well.
Think book club, but for code. We walk through real code together and break it down.

📅 April 15
🕕 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
📍 PrizePicks

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#AtlantaTech #DevCommunity #Refactr

Bytes & Bites @ Krog St Market, Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 11:45 AM | Meetup **Join us for our monthly tech lunch meetup—now at Krog Street Market!** Bytes & Bites is a casual, community-driven lunch where technologists of all backgrounds come toge

🍜 Bytes & Bites

No slides. No pressure. Just lunch + good convos with folks in Atlanta tech.

Easy way to meet people without the awkward networking vibe.

📅 April 24
🕦 11:45 AM – 1:30 PM
📍 Krog Street Market

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#AtlantaTech #DevCommunity #Refactr

AI Ship & Social - March 2026 Social Event, Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup AI Ship & Social is a AI meetup in Atlanta that hopes to bring together all types of people who work cross-functionally to ship AI products or who ship products with the he

🗣️ Community Spotlight: AI Ship & Social

A new meetup for cross-functional folks building AI products. This one’s a casual social, good convos, real connections, and insight into how teams are actually working with AI.

📅 Mar 25
🕡 6–8 PM
📍 Westside Motor Lounge
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🤝 Sponsor REFACTR.TECH in 2026

Sponsors help us keep events free, feed the community, and bring in strong speakers.

If your company cares about supporting real dev community spaces, let’s connect.

Submit interest form 👇
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Bytes & Bites @ Krog St Market, Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 11:45 AM | Meetup **Join us for our monthly tech lunch meetup—now at Krog Street Market!** Bytes & Bites is a casual, community-driven lunch where technologists of all backgrounds come toge

🍜 Bytes & Bites | Fri, March 27

A casual tech lunch for real conversations + community connection.

📍 Krog St Market
Drop in, grab food, meet other devs.

RSVP 👇
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#AtlantaTech #DevCommunity #Networking #Refactr

GitHub Copilot Dev Days — Lab Mentor Volunteer Form We’re looking for volunteers to help mentor during the GitHub Copilot Dev Days hands-on lab. Event Date: April 22, 5:30–8:30 PM Location: Microsoft Atlanta (Atlantic Yards) VS Code GitHub Copilot Ag...

Volunteer as a lab mentor at #GitHubCopilot Dev Days
Help devs build w/ Copilot in a hands-on workshop.

If you use Copilot regularly + enjoy helping others learn, we’d love to have you.

📅 Apr 22
📍 MS ATL - Atlantic Yards

Apply: forms.gle/sk7sWPjzRa16...

#DevCommunity #AI #AtlantaTech #Refactr

GitHub Copilot Dev Days | Atlanta Build with GitHub Copilot at Dev Days Atlanta — real AI workflows, live demos, and a hands-on lab at Microsoft Atlantic Yards. Free event.

🚀 GitHub Copilot Dev Days

A FREE hands-on event focused on practical AI dev workflows.

📅 April 22
⏰ 5:30–8:30 PM
📍 Microsoft Atlanta (Atlantic Yards)

Real demos. You’ll actually build.

Spots are running out 👇
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#GitHubCopilot #AI #AtlantaTech #Refactr

Code Reading Club Sharpen your code-reading skills! Join us to explore unfamiliar code together—no matter your level or language. Fresh eyes welcome!

📖 Code Reading Club

Let’s unpack real code together and level up one of the most underrated dev skills: reading code well.

📅 Wed, March 18
🕕 6:00 PM
📍 PrizePicks

Think book club — but for code.

This month will be led Chantal Shirley!

Grab your spot: www.eventbrite.com/e/code-readi...

Call for Papers: GitHub Copilot Dev Days | Atlanta Want to share how you’re actually using GitHub Copilot? We’re looking for a community speaker to lead a 30-minute session focused on real-world AI workflows — what’s working, what’s not, and what you’...

🎤 CFP Open: GitHub Copilot Dev Days | Atlanta

We’re looking for a community speaker to lead a 30-minute session on real-world Copilot workflows.

First-time speakers are welcome 🙌

🗓 Closes March 13

Submit here 👇
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🚀 GitHub Copilot Dev Days | Atlanta

A FREE, hands-on event focused on practical AI workflows.

📅 Apr22
⏰ 5:30–8:30 PM
📍 MSFT ATL (Atlantic Yards)

Expect demos and a hands-on lab with VS Code Copilot Agent Mode. Bring your laptop and build.

Spots are limited 👇
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🚀 Sponsoring REFACTR.TECH in 2026

Our sponsors help us keep events free, feed the community, and create real spaces for devs to connect beyond just code.

If your company wants to support Atlanta’s dev community, we’d love to partner.

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Joint Meetup: Practical AI For Enterprise Developer Workflows, Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup AI is transforming how we build, ship, and maintain software—but beyond the hype, what actually works in real-world enterprise environments? Join us for an evening explorin

Join us Mar 12 in Alpharetta for a joint Atlanta meetup focused on practical AI in real dev workflows.

Featuring:
- digitarald.bsky.social (Microsoft)
- jeffbcross.bsky.social (Nx)
- Tracy Lee & Elliott Fouts (This Dot Labs)

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Black history shows us that oppressive systems can be challenged.

In Code & Conscience #20, I discuss how the resistance of the past can help communities hold tech companies & leaders accountable today.

Read the issue here: bit.ly/code-conscie...
Or listen on YouTube: youtu.be/RIwKQy2VW3E

Bytes & Bites @ Krog St Market, Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 11:45 AM | Meetup **Join us for our monthly tech lunch meetup—now at Krog Street Market!** Bytes & Bites is a casual, community-driven lunch where technologists of all backgrounds come toge

🍜 Bytes & Bites is back at Krog Street Market on Feb 27, 11:45 am–1:30 pm. No talks. No slides.

Come by, grab lunch, and hang out for a bit. Stay the whole time or just swing through between meetings.

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Career Stories with Anthony D. Mays YouTube video by REFACTR

We just dropped a new Career Stories convo, and this one hits right on time.

Erica Stanley talks with Anthony D. Mays about how AI is shifting the “senior” bar and what engineers should focus on to grow in 2026.

If you’re thinking about your next move...

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Sponsor REFACTR.TECH in 2026!

Sponsorships are what let us keep events free, feed people, bring in great speakers, and create spaces where devs can talk about more than just code.

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Code Reading Club Sharpen your code-reading skills! Join us to explore unfamiliar code together—no matter your level or language. Fresh eyes welcome!

📚 Code Reading Club • Feb 18 • Atlanta
We’ll read a mystery code snippet together and practice getting better at reading unfamiliar code. Language agnostic. All levels welcome.

Led by Hannah Hogan.

Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/code-readi...

Joint Meetup: Landing the Job: Real Talk from Both Sides of the Table, Tue, Feb 17, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup Join us for our first meetup of 2026, a joint event hosted by REFACTR.TECH, ATL JavaScript, React ATL, and Modern Web. We’ll kick things off with a career panel on The Curr

Landing the Job: Real Talk from Both Sides of the Table
Feb 17 • Tech Square ATL

Honest career panel with people who hire and people who’ve been hired.
Plus Jerome Hardaway sharing his job-search framework.

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Good intentions don’t scale but frameworks do.

I talk about the orgs showing what this looks like in practice–from building harm checks to embedding safety principles into how models behave.

AI becomes trustworthy by anticipating harm instead of reacting. Read here: bit.ly/code-conscie...

We're back for our first tech lunch of 2026!

Looking forward to catching up with tech community friends for talk and tasty eats, now at Krog St. Market!

Bytes & Bites @ Krog St Market, Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 11:45 AM | Meetup **Join us for our monthly tech lunch meetup—now at Krog Street Market!** Bytes & Bites is a casual, community-driven lunch where technologists of all backgrounds come toge

Bytes & Bites is back, and we’ve got a new spot!

Starting this month, we’re meeting at Krog St Market every 4th Friday, 11:45 am – 1:30 pm.

📅 Next meetup: Feb 27

Just show up, grab something to eat, and hang out with us.

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Code Reading Club Sharpen your code-reading skills! Join us to explore unfamiliar code together—no matter your level or language. Fresh eyes welcome!

📚 Code Reading Club • Feb 18 • Atlanta
We’ll read a mystery code snippet together and practice getting better at reading unfamiliar code. Language agnostic. All levels welcome.

Led by Hannah Hogan.

Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/code-readi...

🎟️ We’re giving away a free 2-day passes to Devnexus (Mar 5–6)
Great talks and hands-on sessions across Java, cloud, AI, architecture, and more, plus a lot of smart devs in one place.

Apply by Feb 11, 11:59 pm → bit.ly/devnexus-tic...

Bytes and Brews 2025, Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup We’re getting together with the rest of the Atlanta tech scene for a laid-back holiday hangout full of networking, good stories a few drinks. We’ll be at Fadó Irish Pub - B

Join us on Dec 18 for Bytes and Brews at Fadó Buckhead.

Good people, good convo, snacks and drinks on us, plus a raffle for AirPods and a Devnexus AI Track golden ticket.

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Holiday Party & Cookie Exchange, Tue, Dec 9, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup Celebrate the holiday season with our annual Cookie Exchange & Ugly Sweater Party! Join Modern Web Atlanta, Atlanta JavaScript, React ATL, VueJS ATL and, ATL .NET, Azure A

🎄🍪 Tomorrow’s the day for our joint Holiday Party & Cookie Exchange!

🍪 Bring your go-to cookies
👕 Ugly sweaters = yes pls
🎉 Games and surprises

📍 Improving Offices – Alpharetta, GA

Low-pressure meetup -- perfect way to close out the year ✨

See y’all tomorrow!

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Supercharge Agentic AI Projects: A DevEx-Driven Approach to Cloud-Native Scaffolding · Luma In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, agentic AI has emerged as a powerful paradigm for creating intelligent agents capable of…

Join us for the first-ever Enterprise AI Atlanta Meetup! 🚀

“Supercharge Agentic AI Projects: A DevEx-Driven Approach” — a live demo session on simplifying agentic AI development.

🎙️ Daniel Oh, Java Champion & RedHat Dev Advocate
📅 Nov 12, 6 pm - 8 pm
📍 Insight Global

👉 RSVP: luma.com/u49vj7hq