About us
Bringing together professional and aspiring software developers in the Charlotte, NC metro area. Topics include technical aspects of development, software project management, software architecture, and hands-on solutions for your projects.
What to expect:
- Welcoming atmosphere to learn and share
- Variety of topics and presenters
- Chance to meet and chat with others
Whether you are a seasoned developer or just starting in the industry, all are welcome! It’s all about learning.
Upcoming events
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One Committed Secret and the Scaffolding Tool That Changed My Workflow
Flywheel Coworking, 57 Union St S, Concord, NC, USPresented by Matt Parker
If your team has a scripts/ directory — in a CI repo, an infra project, anywhere — this one's for you.
Matt Parker will walk us through Shikomi (仕込み), an open-source CLI scaffolding tool he built after accidentally committing a credential to GitHub and hearing about it from the security team before he noticed himself. The name comes from a Japanese culinary term for mise en place — the preparation that happens before you start cooking. That philosophy is baked right into the tool.
While Shikomi was built with macOS administration in mind, the problem it solves — ungoverned shell scripts with no security tooling — is universal. The talk is framed for a general developer audience.
Shell scripts are everywhere in software teams: deployment hooks, CI setup, infrastructure automation, onboarding utilities. Yet most scripting workflows have none of the guardrails we apply to application code — no linting gates, no secret scanning, no versioning discipline. Shikomi fixes that by wiring the tools together so you don't have to. Think create-react-app, but for shell scripts: one command, answer a few prompts, and walk away with a fully scaffolded project with pre-commit hooks already running.
What Matt will cover:
- The incident — what happened, what it exposed, and why it's more common than people admit
- How Gitleaks, ShellCheck, and semantic versioning each solve one dimension of the problem
- A live demo of Shikomi scaffolding a project with all three tools pre-configured
- The two-tier validation model: local pre-commit hooks as Tier 1, GitHub Actions at the PR level as Tier 2 — and how a merge can trigger automated deployment from there
- How bump-version keeps version headers, READMEs, and CHANGELOGs in sync with one command
- A practical path to apply the same guardrails to your own existing scripts
No Mac admin or MDM experience required. If you write shell scripts, this talk is for you.
Come ready to ask questions. Bring your laptop if you want to follow along.
Important Parking and Directions
The address for the Cabarrus Center is 57 Union St. S Concord, NC 28025. Free parking is available in the Cabarrus County Parking Deck located at 81 Spring St. SW Concord, NC 28025. There is also the 3-hour Bicentennial Lot behind our building. Here is a map of downtown parking options for your reference.Sponsors
- FocalGroove provides groovy marketing and facilitation.
- Special thanks to Flywheel Coworking for providing our meeting space in their fantastic Concord facility!
3 attendees
Concord AI Lab: Lunch & Learn for Builders and Creators
Flywheel Coworking, 57 Union St S, Concord, NC, US🧠 Concord AI Lab: Lunch & Learn for Builders, Creators & Agents
Welcome to the Concord AI Lab — a monthly Lunch & Learn meetup where local innovators explore advanced AI tools, automation strategies, and emerging agent-to-agent (A2A) workflows.
This is where curious minds and creative builders come together to screen share real projects, trade tips, and solve problems live. Whether you’re chaining GPTs, experimenting with Google’s A2A ecosystem, or building no-code/low-code tools using Zapier, n8n, or LangChain—this is your lab.
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🔍 What We Explore
• AI agent workflows (custom, open source, or GPT-powered)
• Google’s A2A (Agent-to-Agent) integrations and real-world use
• Prompt engineering & Multi-Channel Prompting (MCP)
• Workflow design across platforms like Zapier, Airtable, Make, and beyond
• Open discussions, project sharing, and group troubleshooting⸻
🍕 What to Expect
• BYOL (Bring Your Own Lunch)
• Live demos & hands-on workflows
• Collaborative atmosphere with room for questions, experiments, and feedback⸻
👥 Who’s It For?
Tech folks, indie hackers, marketers, creatives (writers, designers, video editors), and startup founders—anyone working with or curious about AI tooling and automation.You don’t have to be an expert—just bring your curiosity (and your laptop if you want to build along).
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Let’s turn big ideas into real tools—together.
Join us every 3rd Tuesday at Flywheel Cowork.Sponsors
- FocalGroove provides groovy marketing and facilitation.
- Special thanks to Flywheel Coworking for providing our meeting space in their fantastic Concord facility!
2 attendeesDev Roundtable
Flywheel Coworking, 57 Union St S, Concord, NC, USBring your software development questions, challenges, and projects to show & tell. This will be a fun time to hang out and talk shop! If you are brand new to development, you are welcome to take part and get valuable guidance from mentors ready to help!
Important Parking and Directions
The address for the Cabarrus Center is 57 Union St. S Concord, NC 28025. Free parking is available in the Cabarrus County Parking Deck located at 81 Spring St. SW Concord, NC 28025. There is also the 3-hour Bicentennial Lot behind our building. Here is a map of downtown parking options for your reference.Sponsors
- FocalGroove provides groovy marketing and facilitation.
- Special thanks to Flywheel Coworking for providing our meeting space in their fantastic Concord facility!
2 attendeesConcord AI Lab: Lunch & Learn for Builders and Creators
Flywheel Coworking, 57 Union St S, Concord, NC, US🧠 Concord AI Lab: Lunch & Learn for Builders, Creators & Agents
Welcome to the Concord AI Lab — a monthly Lunch & Learn meetup where local innovators explore advanced AI tools, automation strategies, and emerging agent-to-agent (A2A) workflows.
This is where curious minds and creative builders come together to screen share real projects, trade tips, and solve problems live. Whether you’re chaining GPTs, experimenting with Google’s A2A ecosystem, or building no-code/low-code tools using Zapier, n8n, or LangChain—this is your lab.
⸻
🔍 What We Explore
• AI agent workflows (custom, open source, or GPT-powered)
• Google’s A2A (Agent-to-Agent) integrations and real-world use
• Prompt engineering & Multi-Channel Prompting (MCP)
• Workflow design across platforms like Zapier, Airtable, Make, and beyond
• Open discussions, project sharing, and group troubleshooting⸻
🍕 What to Expect
• BYOL (Bring Your Own Lunch)
• Live demos & hands-on workflows
• Collaborative atmosphere with room for questions, experiments, and feedback⸻
👥 Who’s It For?
Tech folks, indie hackers, marketers, creatives (writers, designers, video editors), and startup founders—anyone working with or curious about AI tooling and automation.You don’t have to be an expert—just bring your curiosity (and your laptop if you want to build along).
⸻
Let’s turn big ideas into real tools—together.
Join us every 3rd Tuesday at Flywheel Cowork.Sponsors
- FocalGroove provides groovy marketing and facilitation.
- Special thanks to Flywheel Coworking for providing our meeting space in their fantastic Concord facility!
2 attendees
Past events
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