This is a companion website to the Sacramento Software Engineers Meetup.

About

Sacramento Software Engineers (SacSwe) is a Meetup for those interested in the art and practice of software development. We aim to learn, network, collaborate, and grow, both individually and as a community. We have two ongoing monthly series:

• Third Tuesdays at the Carlsen Center (currently paused)
  • Talks for a broad tech and business audience, focused mainly on AI.
• First Thursdays at Bloom Workspaces (joint with Coder Consortium)
  • Varied formats including hands-on activities and deeper dives focused on coding.

Upcoming Events

August 7, 2025 @Bloom - Beyond Chatbots: the Model Context Protocol

Details and Meetup announcement TBD

Past Events

• Let's Build an AI Coding Agent...in Go! (June 5, 2025 @Bloom)
  • Slides
  • Tutorial: ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent
  • GitHub: https://github.com/arefin/go-ai-agent
  • Notes: Notes for How to Build an Agent
  • Anthropic API Key: Anthropic API Key
• Code Like an Ace: The Tennis Refactoring Kata (Feb 6, 2025 @Bloom)
  • Tennis Kata GitHub repo [video1] [video2]
  • Slides
  • Tennis Kata Notes
• Gilded Rose Revisited (Jan 2, 2025 @Bloom)
  • Gilded Rose GitHub repo
  • Slides
  • Gilded Rose Revisited Retrospective
• Advent of Code 2024 (Dec 5, 2024 @Bloom)
  • Puzzle link: Advent of Code 2024 Day 5
• Haskell to Improve Your Thinking, Part 3 (Nov 7, 2024 @Bloom)
  • Haskell 3 Notes
• Gilded Rose, A Refactoring Kata (Oct 3, 2024 @Bloom)
  • GitHub repo for the Kata
  • Gilded Rose Retrospective
• A Closer Look at Claude (Sep 17, 2024 @Carlsen)
• Haskell to Improve Your Thinking, Part 2 (Sep 5, 2024 @Bloom)
  • Haskell Part 2 Slides
• Let’s Build a No-Code AI Solution (Aug 20, 2024 @Carlsen)
• Haskell to Improve Your Thinking, Part 1 (Aug 1, 2024 @Bloom)
• AI SaaS Deep Dive with Jonas (Jul 16, 2024 @Carlsen)