A few questions:
-
Are you on LinkedIn? Have you filled everything out for it and let everyone know you are looking?
-
Do you have any coding projects on GitHub?
-
Are you going to any programming user groups? E.g., go to MeetUp.com and search for things like Javascript, Python, Perl, etc, and see what user groups near where you live. Join them and start going to their meetings. Make connections.
-
Do you have your own personal business cards? You need to make some for when you talk to people at the user group meetings because you can’t just hand out resumes without it being awkward.
-
Do you have an account on Fiverr or UpWork? You could start offering your services there for cheap and put it on your resume as freelance work.
-
Are you posting to places like Reddit, especially their job sub-reddits?
https://old.reddit.com/r/forhire/
Just some ideas to get you started. People networking is what you need to do at this point.