We are back again for our first meetup of the year tonight! Andrew Murphy will be telling us about colour and why it's more than meets the eye; and the floor will be open for lightning talks as well. Doors open from 6pm at the Mantel Group office. More details at https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/melbourne-cocoaheads/events/313261113/

If you're travelling in to attend please be aware that protestors are expected to gather at the Flinders Street Station steps from 5pm, so use the Elizabeth St entrance or transit through Southern Cross instead.

Hey folks, our annual End of Year Celebration in partnership with our friends at GDG Melbourne is on again this year, and it's next week!

📆 Thursday, 11th December 2025
🕧 6pm to ~10pm
🏨 The Elephant and Wheelbarrow, 94-96 Bourke St

There will be the usual games and give aways and plenty to eat and drink.

This is a ticketed event, tickets are $5 with all proceeds to charity. Tickets are strictly limited so grab one today so you don't miss out: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1509332

It's time for our final presentation night of the year! Join us on Thursday from 6pm at the Mantel Group office (and live on YouTube from 6:30pm) for good company and great talks.

This month @bok will be giving us an in-person rendition of his critically acclaimed (so he says) /dev/world presentation on preventing retry storms titled Don't DDoS Yourself.

We have room as well for a second talk or lightning talks!

Details and RSVP on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/melbourne-cocoaheads/events/305946848/

Tomorrow (Wednesday 15th) is the next Coding Night at Mantel Group. We have a great group of people come with a diverse set of skills, some looking for help just starting out, others with deep technical questions. Everyone is welcome!

The evening kicks off at 6:00PM at Mantel Group.

https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/melbourne-cocoaheads/events/310034783/

We're on again for our August meetup! This Thursday, 6pm Thursday at the Mantel Group office and on YouTube with 4 fantastic sessions:

- Get to know Aaron Vernon, 2025 Apple Design Award finalist.
- Get an Insight into being an Apple Technologist and the dev communities in Asia.
- Regular contributor Andrew Murphy tells us 9 Management Habits Quietly Burning Out Your Best Engineers.
- Developer extraordinaire @layoutSubviews tells us about The Grid.

To RSVP see Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/melbourne-cocoaheads/events/305946830/

Not yet had your fill of Liquid Glass? Have you spent the day talking to your own app through a Foundation Model? Then our Beyond WWDC night is for you!

We're on tomorrow from 6:00pm. Our live stream starts at 6:30pm too - and our friends at Brisbane.swift are dialling in too for our first cross-state event!

Well start the night with James Warren's WWDC Recap, followed by @PeteGoldsmith's Authoring apps applying AI agents and alliteration. We wrap up the evening with our traditional WWDC panel