February 2024 Newsletter

Community highlight

This month's community highlight goes to Drey!!

Drey (they/them) has earned the well-deserved award for this month's community highlight due to their exceptional contributions to our community. Not only have they made suggestions that have allowed us to launch a new channel, but they have also advocated for improvements to our shuffle bot, and are now contributing to our Slackbot to implement an improved shuffle feature!

Drey, this month's award is for you!! Your efforts and contributions haven’t gone unnoticed, and we extend our heartfelt gratitude. Thank you for being a part of our community and we can’t wait to see your future contributions!🌟👏🎉

In case you missed it

There's a Flag for That! A Developer's Primer on Feature Flagging

Our recent session featured insights from Andrew MacLean on the fascinating world of feature flags!! We uncovered the power of the robust solution that empowers teams to tweak systems or application behaviour without touching the source code.

If you didn’t get a chance to catch the session then it’s now available on our YouTube channel!

Rekindling the Flame: Navigating and Overcoming Burnout in Tech

We got to hear from Riaz, Neal, and Rana on the of burnout in the tech space. This was such an insightful session that covered the early warning signs and how to notice them, and also actionable steps to recover, rejuvenate, and return stronger!If you didn’t get a chance to catch the session then it’s now available on our YouTube channel!

tank-toasts

We recently launched our #tank-toasts channel!! 🎉

This channel is where you can share your journey and your wins. Tell us about the new client or contract you’ve secured. You can even give kudos to your resilient fellow job search buddy, your fabulous mentor or mentee, or your cat that wakes you up every morning forcing you to start your day.

Thanks to Drey for the suggestion!

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Nemo Commands

Wondering what commands you have access to with Nemo?

• /notify-admins: Have a question or concern that you want to privately send to the admin team but aren’t sure who or how to reach out🤔? Don’t you fret! Let us know by using the /notify-admins command!
• !thanks: Within a message or by itself, Simply type !thanks @username or !thanks @username @username, share your reasons for gratitude or give a well-deserved shout-out. You can go into any of the public and start sharing your thanks and making someone's day today!
• /suggestions: We would love to hear your ideas! So at any time, feel free to use the /suggestion command to send your ideas directly to the admin team.
• /coffee-bio: This allows you to edit your coffee chat bio which will be used to introduce you to
• /coffee-activate: This allows you to activate your coffee chat profile. Your profile is active by default when you join the channel
• /coffee-deactivate: This allows you to deactivate your coffee chat profile without leaving the coffee chat channel
• /jokes: Want Nemo to send a joke to your favourite channel? Use /jokes followed by the category to share a joke

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