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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · 3d

Next meeting: Thu Oct 16, 5:30PM! Featuring Will Harney on type-level magicks, Josh Goldberg with a twisted TypeScript trick, plus Spooky Scary Storytime where attendees share head-scratching bugs with a grand prize. Don't be scared—join us if you dare! 🎃

Spooky TypeScript: An Introduciton to Type-Level Programming by WIll Harney; Monthly TypeScript Tip by Josh Goldberg; Spooky Scary Time with attendees; October 16th at 5:30 at the Microsoft NERD Center

Attendees chillin at October meetup from last year

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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · 14d

Thanks again! 🦋

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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · 14d

It was great having @vlkpack.com and Phaedra Sanon speak last night! Learning about ESM conversion challenges and the passion behind running hackathons was inspiring. Plus, @colinhacks.com gave us an awesome TS tip on exhaustiveness checking in switch statements! See you next time!

Josh Vlk beginning their talk on converting fp-ts to ESM

Phaedra Sanon giving their talk on hackathoning

Colin McDonnell giving the monthly TypeScript tip

Amazing vegan catering by Savannah Bossé

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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · 26d

Our September event is TUE 9/23 at Microsoft NERD! 🍎

@joshuakgoldberg.com is coming to give a lightning talk with a neat TypeScript tip!

Don't miss Phaedra Sanon's talk: "Hackathons and Other Bad Ideas".

Plus, @vlkpack.com on "Rewriting fp-ts to ESM using Deno"!

See you there!

September 23 at 5:30pm
"Monthly TypeScript Tip" Josh Goldberg
"Hackathons and Other Bad Ideas" Phaedra Sanon
"Rewriting fp-ts to ESM using Deno" Josh Vlk

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Nicolò Ribaudo @nicr.dev · Sep 2

Friendly reminder that I will be at @squiggleconf.com in a couple weeks, talking about source maps. Come say hi! :)

SquiggleConf 2025
September 18-19, Boston, MA

A conference for excellend web dev tooling

Tickets on sale now!

Souce Maps: How does the Macig Work?

With Nicolò Ribaudo, Babel maintainer and TC39 representative at Igalia

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shelley @codebyte.re · Sep 3

excited to be back in boston at @squiggleconf.com in a few weeks speaking about automation strategy and tooling in large open source projects!

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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · Sep 3

Don't forget, our first workshop is on Saturday!

Join @joshuakgoldberg.com and our friends at Boston Code and Coffee to learn all about TypeScript. It'll be a great time!

Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · Aug 23

Announcing our first workshop! 👷

We're excited to partner with our friends at Boston Code and Coffee for an introduction to TypeScript by @joshuakgoldberg.com. It'll be great if you've never used TS, and great if you've used it & want to learn more. See you there!

www.meetup.com/boston-code-...

Introduction to TypeScript, Sat, Sep 6, 2025, 1:00 PM | Meetup

*Please RSVP ahead of time and bring a government-issued ID for check-in.* Have you heard about TypeScript and maybe poked at a docs page or two but it's still a mystery f

www.meetup.com

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VoidZero @voidzero.dev · Aug 29

VoidZero x SquiggleConf: Win a ticket!

VoidZero is a proud sponsor of this year's @squiggleconf.com on September 18th and 19th in Boston.

We've got an extra ticket for the event and want to give it away to one of you so you can join us there!

Learn in this thread how you can enter the raffle 👇

Post image saying "VoidZero is sponsoring SquiggleConf 2025"

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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · Aug 23

Announcing our first workshop! 👷

We're excited to partner with our friends at Boston Code and Coffee for an introduction to TypeScript by @joshuakgoldberg.com. It'll be great if you've never used TS, and great if you've used it & want to learn more. See you there!

www.meetup.com/boston-code-...

Introduction to TypeScript, Sat, Sep 6, 2025, 1:00 PM | Meetup

*Please RSVP ahead of time and bring a government-issued ID for check-in.* Have you heard about TypeScript and maybe poked at a docs page or two but it's still a mystery f

www.meetup.com

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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · Aug 23

It was a pleasure having you over Maddy! Let's do it again for SquiggleConf 🤘

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maddy montaquila @maddymontaquila.net · Aug 22

of all my bad jokes at the boston typescript meeetup last night, i think my favorite was "work at microsoft they said, youll become a discord admin with a macbook"

thank you so much for having me @squiggleconf.com folks!!

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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · Aug 16

August event is Thur 8/21 at Microsoft NERD! 🐝

See @maddymontaquila.net demo Aspire, toolkit for dev orchestration w/ observability.

Come for Rafael Mendiola's talk on finding jobs in 2025 and AI transition prep.

Plus, lightning talk from @joshuakgoldberg.com with TypeScript tips!

bostonts.club

Aug 21, 5:30pm
"A World Class Locla Dev Loop with Aspire" Maddy Montaquila
"How to Get a Job in 2025" Rafael Mendiola
"Monthly TypeScript Tips" Josh Goldberg

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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · Jul 17

today! Today! TODAY!

Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · Jul 10

🎆 Our July event is next week!

Hear from @joshuakgoldberg.com on setting up formatters, linters, type checkers, & more. Plus a lightning talk from Bluebird Bouquet's Haley Cormier on starting a small business.

Thursday, July 17th at Microsoft NERD. See you there!

Registration link ~ bostonts.club

Boston TS Club poster for July 17th @ 5:30pm, Microsoft NERD Center

How to Set Up a New TypeScript Project in 2025 - Josh Goldberg
Flowers & Figuring it Out - Haley Cormier

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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · Jul 17

today! Today! TODAY!

Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · Jul 10

🎆 Our July event is next week!

Hear from @joshuakgoldberg.com on setting up formatters, linters, type checkers, & more. Plus a lightning talk from Bluebird Bouquet's Haley Cormier on starting a small business.

Thursday, July 17th at Microsoft NERD. See you there!

Registration link ~ bostonts.club

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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · Jul 10

🎆 Our July event is next week!

Hear from @joshuakgoldberg.com on setting up formatters, linters, type checkers, & more. Plus a lightning talk from Bluebird Bouquet's Haley Cormier on starting a small business.

Thursday, July 17th at Microsoft NERD. See you there!

Registration link ~ bostonts.club

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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · Jul 10

Registration link, club details, and more on ~ bostonts.club

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Cabin in Joe Woods @joewoods.dev · Jul 6

At @joshuakgoldberg.com's suggestion, I've added a tech calendar for Boston!

"I have automated calendar.city so much, adding Boston will be easy!" I thought. Holy crap there are so many tech events in Cambridge & Boston.

calendar.city/boston

Boston Tech Calendar

All the tech events happening in Boston.

calendar.city

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Jen Looper, PhD @jenlooper.com · Jul 4

This is a really good time for civic-minded folks to join their local CFA-a lifeline for me when I was on the job market. Focused on building civic tech for the greater good, these orgs give you an opportunity to stretch your comfort zone and learn a new skill. www.codeforboston.org/projects/

Our Work

Part of the Code for America Brigade network, we are a volunteer group of developers, designers, data geeks, and citizen activists who use creative technology to solve civic and social problems.

www.codeforboston.org

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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · Jun 24

P.S. we have air conditioning

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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · Jun 24

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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · Jun 24

Update: we've trimmed today to two main talks, along with one from our sponsor Mintlify.

That's right, today. Not Thursday. Today. The 24th. Tuesday.
See you tonight!

Boston TS Club poster for June 24th @ 5:30pm, Microsoft NERD Center

What's New in TypeScript 5.9 - Sean Sanker Jr
Setting Up Containers Declaratively with Quadlet - Evan White

Boston TS Club June 2025 Sponsor poster: Mintlify

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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · Jun 24

Update: we've trimmed today to two main talks, along with one from our sponsor Mintlify.

That's right, today. Not Thursday. Today. The 24th. Tuesday.
See you tonight!

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SquiggleConf @squiggleconf.com · Jun 17

📣 We're proud to announce today the speakers for SquiggleConf 2025!

This amazing list of people are going to give talks on the latest and greatest in web dev tooling. SquiggleConf 2025 is going to be a wonderful time. We hope to see you there! 💙

squiggleconf.com

Meet this year's amazing speakers
SquiggleConf 2025
September 18-19 Boston

Anthony Fu

Jake Bailey

Shelley Vohr

TJ DeVries

Maddy Montaquila

Oliver Medhurst

Dominic Nguyen

Oliver Dunk

Mattia Manzati

Giacomo Cavalieri

Amy Dutton

David Sherret

Jessica Garson

Alexander Lichter

Nicolò Ribaudo

Michelle Bakels

Pete Gonzalez

Dylan Goings

(MC) Fatima Sarah Khalid

(MC) Nick Nisi

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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · Jun 20

P.S. If you haven't yet RSVPd to the Tuesday June 24th meetup, now's your chance ~ www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-ts-...

Boston TS Club - June

Our June Boston Typescript Club!

www.eventbrite.com

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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · Jun 20

Many thanks to @mintlify.bsky.social for sponsoring our June 2025 meetup!

Mintlify is a next generation platform for beautiful documentation. It powers the docs for Anthropic, Cursor, Perplexity, and many more companies and open source projects.

We'll show a fun demo this Tuesday in our meetup. 🚀

Boston TS Club poster for Mintlify. Label: June 2025 Sponsor

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Boston TS Club @bostonts.club · Jun 20

🙌 We've got a jam-packed meetup for you all next week! TypeScript, event loops, containers, and all sorts of wonderful details therein.

Tuesday, June 24th at the Microsoft NERD center. We're looking forward to seeing you all there!

bostonts.club 💙

Boston TS Club poster for June 24th @ 5:30pm, Microsoft NERD Center.

What's New in TypeScript 5.9, Sean Sanker Jr
Taming Tight Loops, Jainal Gosilaya

Setting up Containers Declaratively with Quadlet, Evan White
Boston TS Club poster for June 24th @ 5:30pm, Microsoft NERD Center.

What's New in TypeScript 5.9, Sean Sanker Jr
Taming Tight Loops, Jainal Gosilaya
Setting up Containers Declaratively with Quadlet, Evan White

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