Remote Hack

An amazing and very full hackday!

This hackday featured lots of great book recommendations and van chat, all captured in the discord chat, as well as Lots of general non-technical chatter, a hallmark of a successful hackday.

The 2 Year Anniversary!!!

Another case of “nice weather during the hackday” left us a bit thin on the virtual ground, but thanks to the dedication of two of our regulars, there was all kinds of hacking afoot!

It was an exceedingly kid-friendly and chillax-ed hackday.

we decided to skip this one, since it’s literally on christmas day

Things People Did Max made a macro button, but we didn’t have a podcast, so we’re not sure what it did.

A spooktacular day, we saw themes both old and new!

Keeping the hackdays alive, building up plenty of amazing material for the eventual return to podcasting, we enjoyed a fun-filled and productive day replete with unexpected twists and turns, whispers of dreams as yet unfulfilled, though resplendent with t…

In the midst of a beautiful Summer day, we had a quieter than usual remote hack, but nonetheless, we had an average of 1.5 people attend over the course of the day.

Another relaxed hack day was had by all, especially Adam who took an Airquotes sabattical.

A midsummer’s lull left us with a very leisurely hackday, and well-deserved at that!

In the face of serious competition from the sunniest weekend of the year, we still managed to remote hack a bit, though the burrito count was far down from our season high.

This was meant to be the unconf, but we decided to re-schedule and just had a regular hackday instead.

Our birthday hack 🥳 🎂 🍾 🎁.

Another great day of hacks!

We had our most international day of remote hacks yet, with participants from California and Munich!

This was a Code Retreat 🥳 We met up and did a few katas, pair-programming and doing test-driven-development.

We had such a good time we forgot to write up October’s hack, or even record any podcasts…the horror!!!

Things people did Ben started in a tent and then was guided through the hills and dales via zoom call audio and google maps interpretation by the other attendees.

Things people did Ryan & Ben hacked on Ben’s baton-script, a cool idea for making it easier to read a script through remotely, e.g. table readings for plays 🎵.

Things people did Gabor hacked on alternative encodings for web APIs, generated a whole load of json data, and compared different methods for encoding/compressing it.

Things people did Mike and Alan worked on a collaborative podcast listening site, which supports dark mode and is seconds away from being fully VC Funded 💵.

Things people did Alan & Mike built a web app that lets you listen to Spotify together with friends.

Projects/hackings Adam hacked on better labelling of our hacks on github – Complete success in 5 minutes flat!

In total, we had 6 participants.