JAMMMERRSSS! The time has come.

You have not submitted your Jam Proposal yet... (partly because you put the "pro" in procrastination, but it's okay). Sarthak (Lead Jam Admissions Officer Reviewer) and I (Jam Person) are going to HELP YOU (yes, you) GET YOUR PROPOSAL IN ASAP!

We're doing a Jam Proposal workshop where we'll all submit a proposal together on call THIS WEEK. The Jam Proposal Workshop Call is this Wednesday at 8PM EST. Be there for be square (because if you're not there then you won't be a-round)

Reply with :grape-jam: in this message to RSVP

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This time we're talking summer! Does your club keep in touch over the summer or other school breaks? Whether you do already or you'd like to try, the next leader's meeting is for you! @thatrobotdev will be leading a discussion on summer(vacation) engagement for clubs on Saturday May 20 at 8pm EST

RSVP and watch the #leaders channel on Slack to stay updated with meeting links & reminders.

✨ Want to lead a discussion? DM @Holly on Slack :)

Want to learn to design orpheus-shaped arduino boards, light-up macropads, or pcb hackathon swag? Maggie is running a workshop on designing pcb business cards so you can learn the basics of pcb design!

During winter hardware wonderland, Maggie designed her first pcb -- a business card that supports nfc!

hey everyone!! @Aileen and I are so so excited to announce a new ama. found. in the wild!!

this friday (May 5) at 7pm ET, we’ll be talking with Christina Entcheva who is currently the director of software engineering at github but has worn many hats in the past: - she’s worked as a head of engineering / design / and etc, at various places in the past, including thoughtbot (for you ruby fans 👀) - just like the ethos of hack club, she cares a lot about mentoring and has worked to mentor formerly incarcerated people in coding/design/and engineering practices as part of a super cool org called Emergent Works - and she’s an ARTIST! 🖌️ she’s had her art displayed in exhibits before and she does a super cool mix of graphic design, paints, and prints, and also has done some resin and bleach art 🪵 - (has amazing fashion sense?? she’s done some work in fashion as well too. yk. just in case she wasn’t cool enough already) - we met her in NYC at the horizon hackathon and learned that she cares a lot about tech ethics and strives to encourage a greater care and understanding for it in the people around her

Join us at 5 May at 4pm PT / 7pm ET, react with :github: on the announcement post to RSVP :)

— @cold brew claire

From @conrad: Hi everyone! My name is Conrad and I’m excited to be joining the Hack Club community. I am going to be sharing a new project with you all today :smile: We’re calling it burrow for now, and it is a tool to help you burrow through firewalls. I think internet access is pretty important for learning and it’s ironic that schools block websites like Github or Hack Club. I want to build a free VPN that students can use to get around the blocks.

Tonight’s call will be at 6pm PT/9pm ET again, where I will share some progress updates. I’d also love to start figuring out who is interested in helping with what, and helping people get started. I started making Github Issues, but they don’t have full descriptions yet.

Today, my goals are to: - Get the tun crate reading and writing packets. A lot of different components need to work together for this and my refactor is in progress: https://github.com/hackclub/burrow/pull/23 - Resolve all open PRs / discussions - Write great getting started documentation for first-time contributors

Hi everyone 👋🏼 This Sunday (April 16) at 11am ET, we're turning our pixel canvas into a physical painting on an AMA with Ben Trit (founder of Artmatr) and Owen Trueblood who build machines to create art!

I’m so excited to co-host this AMA with @Kognise — both Ben and Owen are working to solve the problem of transforming digital art onto canvases you can hang on the wall. Here are some cool projects you might want to check out! - 🦾 Crash a robotic hand that mimics a painter’s and can be used to machine-mediate painting experiments. - 🧶 A hacked tufting gun mounted on a robot arm to make CNC textile art! - 🖨️ The printing robot, which uses InkJet style printing to create art

And some other projects Owen’s worked on: repurposing Snapchat Spectacles (remember those??) and creating a custom keyboard for VR — I love how hacky these inventions (and so many more) are.

We need your help: leave your mark on this r/place style canvas here and Ben and Owen will use one of their machines to draw it during the AMA!

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This time we're talking turnover - how to successfully pass on your Hack Club when you graduate or you when you need to change leadership for some other reason. Join us Saturday March 11th at 9pm EST for a discussion and get a sneak peek at the new turnover flow we're building!

RSVP and watch the #leaders channel on Slack to stay updated with meeting links & reminders.

✨ Want to lead a discussion? DM @Holly on Slack :)

You're invited to a ship showcase to see what we're all building for Winter Hardware Wonderland!

Interested in presenting? You’ll have 1 minute and 30 seconds to show it off, and we’ll take two question per project after.

Fill in this form to present: https://airtable.com/shrqpJlNNLjrlDlvu

Join us and work on your Winter Hardware Wonderland project! At the beginning, we'll start a timer for 15 minutes and work on our projects diligently. After that time is up, we can share what we've worked on during the time!

After that, we can hang out, or just sit in awkward silence while I make small talk until something interesting happens.

Join us and work on your Winter Hardware Wonderland project! At the beginning, we'll start a timer for 15 minutes and work on our projects diligently. After that time is up, we can share what we've worked on during the time!

After that, we can hang out, or just sit in awkward silence while I make small talk until something interesting happens.

Join us to learn more what to expect for our upcoming Winter Hardware Wonderland! 300+ of you have gotten a grant for your project, totalling over 70k, and we can’t wait to build alongside you!

In the kick-off call, we’ll get to know each other, set expectations around the 10 days of making, and have a Q&A session )

Happy hacking!

RSVP here

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Join our next meeting on Saturday, Feb 11th at 7pm EST for a game night!

RSVP and watch the #leaders channel on Slack to stay updated with meeting links & reminders.

✨ Want to lead a discussion? DM @Holly on Slack :)

Hey all! I’m so excited to share that Maggie and I, Lucas, are hosting an AMA with David Malan, the famous Harvard CS50’s professor and next Friday, Feb 10 at 7 pm ET (convert to your time here)!

We love CS50 (though did you really finish it :eyes:?), and how David uses super fun demonstrations (ripping apart phone books, binary bulbs, and of course, debugging ducks 🐤) to teach programming concepts, so we’re super excited for a chance to chat with him!

We're counting on your presence… so be sure to RSVP by reacting to this message with :cs50-duck:!

Never heard of David Malan? Here are some fun facts about him: - He teaches CS50, the largest open-learning course at Harvard University and Yale University and the largest Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) at EdX - CS50 is filmed with multiple cameras to make the online experience as good or better than in person. - Almost 4 million students have taken his EdX version of CS50 Malan gives students free ‘I TOOK CS50’ stress balls and t-shirts and they are collectors items! - He also spends part of his time with GitHub as a Professor in Residence

Learn more: https://cs.harvard.edu/malan/ and check out CS50: https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2023/

See you next Friday, react with :cs50-duck: on this message to join us :)

Join us to learn more what to expect for our upcoming Winter Hardware Wonderland! 300+ of you have gotten a grant for your project, totalling over 70k, and we can’t wait to build alongside you!

In the kick-off call, we’ll get to know each other, set expectations around the 10 days of making, and have a Q&A session )

Happy hacking!

RSVP here

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Join our next meeting on Saturday, Jan 21st at 11am EST for a hackathon AMA with club leaders and hackathon organizers @sampoder and @Kevin Yang

RSVP and watch the #leaders channel on Slack to stay updated with meeting links & reminders.

✨ Want to lead a discussion? DM @Holly on Slack :)

Hey, y'all! 🚀 @DevIos and I are excited to host this Saturday's AMA on Jan 21st at 10am EST, 3pm UTC, 8:30pm IST with David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), the creator of Ruby on Rails and CTO of Basecamp!

We’re hackin' excited to have you join us... so be sure to RSVP by reacting to our #announcements message with :railss.

Never heard of DHH? Here’s why I think he's one of the most badass developers in tech, so you can come prepared with some amazing questions: - He's the creator of Ruby on Rails, the essential open-source web framework that GitHub, Twitch, Hack Club Bank, and more run on! 🏦 - He's the CTO of Basecamp, a company known for its innovative approach to project management and remote work 💼 - He didn’t have a driver’s license until age 25, but then years later won the famous 24-hour endurance sports car race Le Mans🏎 - He believes coding skills relate to all parts of life, including racing cars - He's an advocate for "indie" software development and has written several books on the topic, including "Rework" and "It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work" 📚

Check out DHH’s bio to learn more: https://dhh.dk/

See you next Saturday! Once again, RSVP by reacting to our #announcement message with :railss.

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Join our next meeting on Saturday, Dec 10 at 7pm ET for an AMA with @arianna and HQ special guest @Ella to talk about Sprig.

RSVP and watch the #leaders channel on Slack to stay updated with meeting links & reminders.

✨ Want to lead a discussion? DM @Holly on Slack :)

Hey everyone!

📢 AMA alert! 📢

This Friday (Dec 9) at 7pm ET, we’re talking to a key figure in the world of video games 🎮: Bungie’s Justin Truman! He developed Destiny 2 and was head of engineering for HALO.

Here’s why I can’t wait to speak to him: - He took Bungie from small-time indie to a major studio (now part of SONY)! - Imagine trying to create/code, and every single decision is instantly reviewed and criticized. That’s what he deals with, everyday! - Destiny 2 season 19 ships today, and Justin is leading this effort :mindblown: - There are ~900,000 total registered players on Destiny (and there are ~1.03 million current players on Destiny 2) and 15% of that play it daily! - He knows all sides of game development (he helped build the Destiny engine when he was engineering lead—later, he was both design director and production director of Destiny 2)

SO JOIN US and ask him your own questions, it’s DEC 9 at 7 PM EST! React with :destiny: in the announcements message to rsvp!

— Claire

The semester is wrapping up & we want to hear from people about about the events that happened / are going to happen! It’d help inform our future plans and what we’re going to build out in the second semester to hear what we did well & what we could provide better support on.

/z link will be in the #hackathon-organizers channel on Slack!

Have you been procrastinating and wanted to finish that project or task?

Starting Monday, November 28th, every day for the next 10 days, I and several other Hack Clubbers are going to spend some time learning how to do something and posting a short video update in #scrapbook.

If you want to join me, reply with “rsvp” in the announcement post on Slack and what you want to focus on. Here’s how it works: - Pick a topic you want to learn (or a project you want to build) (or something you want to do) - Spend a little time every day for the next 10 days learning/building/doing that thing - Each day, record a short video of you explaining your progress in #scrapbook - For everyone who makes it all 10 days, you’ll be invited to the celebration call next Tuesday (December 8th), and you’ll receive some homemade fudge from Vermont!

—Ivoine

Meet other Hack Club leaders

Once a month, collab! confab! coterie! with leaders from around the 🌍 Join our first meeting on Saturday, Nov 12 at 7pm ET for a discussion about club marketing and tips for running awesome meetings! RSVP in the #leaders channel on Slack and stay updated with meeting links & reminders.

✨ Want to lead a discussion? DM @Holly on Slack :)

Hey Hack Club 👀!

What does a security hacker 🤓, entrepreneur 💰, and software engineer 💡 have in common?

Join us on Friday, Nov 11 at 7pm ET, for a chill AMA with George Hotz to find out! George discovered (and became prolific in) coding in high school through projects, a journey that I’m sure many of you (including myself) relate to.

I’ll be hosting it with @aids and we can’t wait to see you there, so be sure to RSVP by reacting to the #announcements post with a :comma: emoji.

Want to learn more about George Hotz? Well, here’s the TL;DR on why you’ll want to ask him questions: - 🔏When he was 17, he was the first person to remove the SIM Lock on iPhones and even got a congratulatory email from Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple) - 🧰He built his own self-driving car is less than a month! - 😎He’s the founder of comma.ai (the autonomous car upgrade that “makes driving chill”). - 🏆A Portlander at heart, George won the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) thrice in high school and spent much of his twenties jailbreaking Apple and Sony devices (and got sued for doing so)! - 💽Some more big-name brands that he’s gotten the pleasure of hacking include iOS, Android, and PlayStation 3. - 🎵Listen to him rap (Hotz is tomcr00se on SoundCloud). He’s made over 28 original songs and covers ranging from original compositions “5AM in Silicon Valley” to “sufficiently advanced democracy is indistinguishable from trolling.” 👓Want to learn more about him? Check out these articles!

Again, react to our Slack #announcements post to RSVP and ask George Hotz questions on Friday, November 11th 4pm PT/ 7pm ET.

Shoutout @Ayush Paul, @belle, @Mark, and @Ramiz for putting this together and @aids for securing the AMA!

P.S. What’s your opinion on autonomous vehicles?

Hey Hack Clubbers 👋🏼 I'm excited to announce that in 2 weeks, @Damicake and I are hosting an AMA with Sal Khan!

During the AMA you'll be asking him questions, and we'll learning more about who he is and what he does!

Sal Khan founded Khan Academy as a non-profit in 2008, and it now has over ✨50,000 challenges, 3,000 articles, and 10,000 videos ✨ — many of them made by Sal Khan himself. The content covers everything from basic math and history to SAT prep, reaching millions of students. It's helped both me and @Damicake a ton. Personally, I first learned to code using Khan Academy's computer science courses in elementary school, and I've learned so much about all sorts of subjects from Sal's videos.

Here's some random facts about Sal: 🏅Sal was named one of the Time 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 🌎 Over 135 million people from 190 countries use Khan Academy, and it has content in 50+ languages 🎥 Sal started making educational videos on YouTube in 2006 to help teach family members, and has been making videos ever since 💻 He has degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT, along with an MBA from Harvard 🎓 He received an Honorary Doctor of Law degree from Harvard University in 2021 🏫 Sal Khan also founded schoolhouse.world in response to the COVID pandemic, a virtual tutoring site

Join us via Zoom on October 28th at 7pm EST by joining our slack and reacting with the khan-academy emoji to this announcement message RSVP. We can't wait to see you there!

Shoutout to @Ramiz for securing this AMA! PS: What is your personal relationship with Khan Academy?

Do you have something you’ve been wanting to learn? Or build? Or do?

Starting this Wednesday, every day for the next 10 days I’m going to spend some time learning how to do something and post a daily update in #scrapbook. If you want to join, add yourself to #10-days-in-public

Here’s how it works:

1. Pick a topic you want to learn (or a project you want to build) (or something you want to do)

2. Spend a little time every day for the next 10 days learning / building / doing that thing

3. Each day, post a small update in #scrapbook with your progress

4. For everyone who makes it all 10 days, you’ll be invited to the celebration call next Friday (October 14th) and I’ll send you some homemade fudge from our neighbors in Vermont!

Would love for anyone interested to participate.

—Zach

Hey-o! 👋 It's Holly, the Clubs Ops lead at HQ.

🗓 On Friday (9/30) @ 8pm EST I'd love to hang out w/ you all on a Zoom call where you can ask me anything and we can just chill & get to know each other!

I'm so excited to see you all!

—Holly

On Friday the 16th starting at 8PM Eastern till we get too tired we’ll be having a virtual Sprig jam. Come and make games with the people who made Sprig!

You build a game, we ship you a console!

The Hack Club Sprig is a handheld gaming console 🎮 where every player is a creator. You can only obtain a Sprig by contributing to its game gallery.

Sprig is a tool to build and share your own creative projects. Using the web editor, which comes with built-in sound and sprite editors, you can make fun tile-based games in JavaScript that can be loaded and played on your Sprig console.

Get a Sprig in 3 steps: 🎮 Build a Sprig game in the online JavaScript game editor ⤴️ Make a pull request to add your game to the Sprig gallery in the GitHub repository 📬 Once your PR is merged, get a Sprig kit in your mailbox

We only have 430 devices so start submitting your games now but we won't be shipping the devices till October. This game could be your first coding project or your hundredth!

You can start making your game right away or head over to #sprig on the Hack Club Slack if you have questions!

Link: https://hack.af/z-join?id=tr9ex

Join @celeste for a workshop on running stable diffusion — a dalle-like ai image generator that can be run locally — in colab :>

They'll also be giving tips on tuning prompts to make images more coherent, closer to what you ask for and prettier, which tends to require more work with stable diffusion than with eg dalle and midjourney (but if you do so, it tends to exceed them in quality)

Hello hackers! This Sunday at 7pm IST, I will be hosting a workshop on API. In this workshop, we will cover important topics like REST API, CRUD, API schema design, testing using Postman, and will also build our API using NodeJS. As we all know that APIs are something that we can't ignore so join me for this wonderful workshop and boot your API skills.

If you can’t make it, I’ll ship the recordings + code on the day after!

-Kumar Kalyan

Y'all. Your neighborhood catboy here ^_^

I am stealing tej's awesome work and piggybacking off of it! So... I will be running a "write a compiler workshop"! We will be using the interpreter y'all wrote with tej, and adding a compiler for the target of your choice!

I'll be using C as an example, but I know Python and JS as well, so I can help you target any language you want to. We'll walk through code generation, compiler extension, and maybe even some basic optimization! I'll be explaining all the concepts, so don't worry if you haven't read 500 blog posts and 2 textbooks.

(I'm also going to provide a basic version of what tej is doing as a starting point, if y'all can't make his but want to go to this workshop)

Y'all. Your neighborhood catboy here ^_^

I am stealing tej's awesome work and piggybacking off of it! So... I will be running a "write a compiler workshop"! We will be using the interpreter y'all wrote with tej, and adding a compiler for the target of your choice!

I'll be using C as an example, but I know Python and JS as well, so I can help you target any language you want to. We'll walk through code generation, compiler extension, and maybe even some basic optimization! I'll be explaining all the concepts, so don't worry if you haven't read 500 blog posts and 2 textbooks.

(I'm also going to provide a basic version of what tej is doing as a starting point, if y'all can't make his but want to go to this workshop)

HEYO HACKERS!

It's your friendly neighborhood dolphin bringing another workshop for yall :)

This time, we're gonna make learn the basics of making interpreters and then make our own programming language. I know it sounds somewhat intimidating but trust me, it's as easy as taking compliments from scrappy ^_^

You only need to know basics of Javascript (preferably with knowledge of how classes works) and that's it. Make sure you have Node.js installed before the workshop :)

The workshop is going to happen in 2 parts this weekend (because this may take a long time)!

HEYO HACKERS!

It's your friendly neighborhood dolphin bringing another workshop for yall :)

This time, we're gonna make learn the basics of making interpreters and then make our own programming language. I know it sounds somewhat intimidating but trust me, it's as easy as taking compliments from scrappy ^_^

You only need to know basics of Javascript (preferably with knowledge of how classes works) and that's it. Make sure you have Node.js installed before the workshop :)

The workshop is going to happen in 2 parts this weekend (because this may take a long time)!

Hey! I'm hosting a chess tournament on Sat, April 30th at 9am MDT | 11am EDT | 8am PDT | 8:30pm IST | 10pm SGT (hope i got these right lol) on lichess.org ♟️ thanks to help from @belle and @jessicard :)

The tourney will be 10 min rapid games and can go from 1-2 hrs depending on how many people will be attending! It would be great if you can RSVP by reacting with a ♟️ in #community so we know if you're attending!

Hey y'all! We’ll be hosting a game of Mafia during hack night! It will be about 30-90 minutes, depending on how many people join; you can either join to play with us or join as a spectator. It’ll super fun, so join us if you can!

Don't worry if you don’t know what Mafia is, i’ll be briefly explaining it at the start of hack night :)

Hey Hack Clubbers!! I’m super excited to announce that we’re hosting an AMA this Friday with Feross Aboukhadijeh, a prominent open source developer, mad scientist, and startup founder!

For some context about Feross, here are some fun facts about him: - He built and maintains hundreds (yes you read that right) of NPM packages that get hundreds of millions of yearly downloads, including WebTorrent, StandardJS, and BitMidi - He’s the founder of Socket, a security startup aiming to protect companies from software supply chain attacks - In addition to all this, he’s a lecturer at Stanford where he teaches a course on web security (which is publicly available here) - Feross has even contributed to Hack Club repos in the past!!

If you want to learn more about him and what he’s worked on, check out some talks he’s given at CascadiaJS or JSConf!!

I’m super excited to be hosting this AMA, and I can’t wait to see y’all there!

See you on Friday (April 8th) at 5PM PST (8PM EST). – @Pranav

Heya, Hack Club! We’ve been planning another AMA, and this time, the guest is spicy—Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder and creator of Ethereum! Come join on Thursday, February 3rd at 8pm ET! 🎉

👀 If you’ve never heard of Vitalik before, don’t stress out! Here’s the TL;DR of this incredible hacker, designer, and developer working on the future of currency and computers: - He was a part of the 2014 class of Thiel Fellows (the same program that Hack Club was in!) - 📚 Before that, he studied CS at the University of Waterloo, where he worked under people like Ian Goldberg on security research, and even won a medal in the IOI! - Vitalik’s also the youngest crypto billionaire ever, and immigrated to Canada alongside his family at 8! @Claire and I are so excited to be hosting. To help think about some questions, check out some talks he’s given at TechCrunch Disrupt and CoinTelegraph!

Ethereum is a pretty abstract concept — if you’d like a primer on what crypto/blockchain exactly is (and how Ethereum fits in), feel free to join our Intro to Crypto call on Feb 1, at 8pm ET hosted by @christina, @msw ඞ and me! We’ll start off at the very beginning — discussing what, why, and how all the blocks get chained up, and answering questions. React to this message with a :one: to be added to the Intro to Crypto call!

Can’t wait to see all of you there! - @kombucha kothari & @cold brew claire

Put your front-end skills to the test! We’ll be attempting to recreate a small section of Hack Club’s website without viewing the output until we’re done. Generously sponsored by the community team, we’ll be sending a large pizza to the hacker that recreates the most similar website :)

Even if you’re a beginner frontend developer, join and have some fun! More instructions will be given at the event. More information shared in #community in the slack group ( https://hackclub.com/slack/ )

Co-hosted by @Maggie and @Andrew, join us in an interactive discussion session with Becca and Delba from Vercel. We'll be discussing collaboration, community, the product cycle, the developer advocate role, see a demo of Nextjs Live, and more!

Reply to the slack message in #community or send an email to belle@summer.hackclub.com to receive the zoom invite :)

Ho ho ho, Hack Club 

We're getting December started off with  CodeJelly this very weekend.

What’s CodeJelly, hmm? Well, it's like a hackathon but we're doing it gamejam-style. This means we’ll all be playing with a couple of themes for the projects we build, just like gamejams do. And also it’s named codejelly because everyone who submits a project this weekend is literally receiving fresh, homemade,  JELLY . And like I’m literally making jelly for all of you myself okay, and jam is really tough to make compared to jelly, so you're getting jelly and you'll love it trust me. In the mail.

So how do you attend? (Fri 12/17, 8pm ET) Join #codejelly or comment your favorite flavor of jelly here, and I’ll DM you the zoom link and more details! This Friday we’ll have a big zoom call to hangout, form teams and share ideas, and then get right to hacking. We’ll do a bunch of that and then demo all together on Sunday . Want to meet-up with friends irl for CodeJelly? Let us know and we’ll buy you pizza .. seriously! Ask in #codejelly or DM me (@zachary (me,me)) and HQ will pay for it . Anyway… back to themes.

What do themes mean exactly? Well, they're a tool to spark creativity  in your brains , an idea borrow from gamejams. For instance, the theme "A new language!" could be interpreted many ways: one might think “I should test out a new coding language this weekend!”, another hacker says “we’ll code a game with characters who can't communicate (at first)”, while one more hears “let’s use AI to generate believable-but-fake new dialects.” Lots of ideas, see? It's fun to take your own understanding and be creative with it, so the most fun ideas tend to make that easy . There will be TWO themes: one from me, and one from you!

The first theme for CodeJelly was chosen by me, and it is: Reflection

The community theme for CodeJelly, based on community vote is: Amnesia

Cowabunga! Now we have these Hack Club Awards (#awards), wowza! Tis be the season of websites, and as part of that I’ll be running a live code session where we’ll hack together a cool website! If you’ve ever wanted to get to know a bit more about Next.js, SWR or Theme UI or you just want to have some fun and watch me suffer, then come along! It’ll be on this Friday 10am SGT / Thursday 7PM PST / Thursday 10PM EST / Friday 7:30AM IST!

• Sam

Since we can't have a real derby, we're having one on wikipedia:

You start on one page, and only clicking links in the body of the article, navigate to a second, like "King Arthur" -> "Peacock"

Hack Club Bank is going to be running its first nonprofit forum on Tuesday, July 6th at 6:30pm Eastern / 3:30pm Pacific. @zrl will be moderating and talking about starting Hack Club. The panelists will be @Robbie, @Elizabeth, and myself, @kunal. We’re also going to be introducing a new channel for founders on and off bank to facilitate more and new conversation extending beyond #bank!

Join by RSVPing at #bank! Zoom call will be @ https://hack.af/z-join?id=5uh5d9

Elan Lee is the creative mind behind Augmented Reality Games (ARGs) like I Love Bees to promote Halo 2, the hit card game Exploding Kittens which was one of the most successful Kickstarter projects ever, and was Chief Design Officer of Xbox Entertainment Studios.

Find out more about him on his Twitter or in his Talks at Google presentation on Exploding Kittens.

Elizabeth Stark is the co-founder and CEO of Lightning Labs, and a fellow at Coin Center.

Lightning Labs works on Layer 2 technology for Bitcoin, which enables scalable, cheap, and fast internet-native payments. The goal is to make it as easy to send money on the internet as it is to send a photo.

Watch this AMA live at https://hack.af/elizabeth-stark-ama 🚀

Ben is a hacker building DogeHouse (an open source version of Clubhouse), chatting about Prisma or React, and talking about lots of other things that Hack Clubbers also love to build with.

He's building DogeHouse.tv (where we'll be hosting this AMA).

Gwynne Shotwell has literally been listed as one of the most powerful women in the world. She is currently the president and COO of SpaceX and oversees their growth and day to day operations. Under her leadership, SpaceX has grown from an idea of affordable space travel to a company with over 6,000 employees and a $46 billion valuation. We're excited for this opportunity to chat with Gwynne, co-hosted by @Belle, @digitaldina, @Clairebookworm, & @Abby Fischler! This call will be private for Hack Clubbers & not live-streamed.

This was an online hackathon run by @malte 'Switch' in late 2020. original ad:

Hey Hack Club! 

We all miss offline hackathons. 

Meeting new people, building great projects, having a lot of fun. 

These current times just don't allow IRL hackathons.

 So we, the team behind Orpheus Hacks, @orpheushacks, friendly sponsored by our friends in HQ, combined the best of the two worlds. 

Quick, grab your favorite web browser and browse to  orpheushacks.hackclub.com Heres my catch-up: 

What skills do I need?

 Besides being able to work in groups and an interest in striving, nothing! 

What prizes are there?

 We have everything from rather ridiculous sums of GP for each team and Raspberry Pi Zeros-more on that later! Join #orpheus-hacks for updates, cool leaks, and much more!

As Hack Club’s web-maestro, I’m a huge fan of Next.js & Vercel & use them for all my sites, including hackclub.com. This Tuesday, the first Next.js Conf begins & Hack Club is the official student partner!

To kick off, I’m running an intro to Next.js for Hack Clubbers with Allen Hai (@coetry) of Vercel. If you’ve worked with HTML or basic JS before but you’re curious about React.js or Next.js, this is for you—it’ll be entry-level, with a live-code then Q&A.

Vercel is designing a 💌 custom sticker for Hack Clubbers who attend. If you attend the event or post your ticket to Scrapbook with the :vercel: reaction, HQ will 📬 mail you one!

—@lachlanjc

Tommy DeVoss aka DawgyG is a white hat hacker who has made 7 figures from bug bounties!

Be sure to tune in: we'll be streaming this live to our Twitch channel!

What's that they are drawing? Is it a rabbit, a rocket or rock? Play a guess what they are drawing game with other hackers on skribbl.io!

Zoom link will be posted in #hq & #som-lounge on the Hack Club Slack.

Tonight, we’re trying out something new.

You’ve heard of Jeopardy, one of America’s most beloved tv shows and game shows. Today, we’re running…Gpardy! A new, Hack Club related game show, where you can win (or lose) gp! It’ll be going on at 9 PM EDT, would love to see y’all there!

In case you want to prepare, here are our categories for tonight: - Orpheus - Da Slack - Random Chris Trivia - Pets of the Slack - Minecraft

Can you navigate from Kim Jong Un's Wikipedia page to Taco Bell's? Race against other hackers to go from one Wikipedia article to a completely unrelated one!

Zoom link will be posted in #hq & #som-lounge on the Hack Club Slack.

Put your coding brains to the test in some coding challenges!

Zoom link will be posted in #hq & #som-lounge on the Hack Club Slack.

Let's learn CSS and style our scrapbook pages together!

Zoom link will be posted in #hq & #som-lounge on the Hack Club Slack.

Come join Hack Club for an Apple Worldwide Developer Conference watch party!

Zoom link will be posted in #hq on the Hack Club Slack.

Come show! Come tell! Share what you're working on (even if it isn't finished) and get some gp!

Zoom link will be posted in #hq & #som-lounge on the Hack Club Slack.=

This event is canceled.

Keith is a queer web developer who is currently an Engineering Lead at Glitch. He's worked on some really cool projects that serve the underserved (like rebuilding healthcare.gov), and you should totally check out his website.

On Thursday night, Keith will be stopping by to do short presentation about career paths in tech, followed a Q&A and a very casual conversation. Afterwards keith will stick around for 15-20 minute breakout chats w/ students (or groups of students) who want 1-on-1 advice and coaching!

Hey everyone, at 4:30pm Eastern Time (1:30 Pacific) we are running an AMA with Tom Preston-Werner, the founder of GitHub! We'll have 45 minutes to hear stories and ask questions. Feel free to invite your club members, coleads or friends too—and start thinking of questions now!

RSVP in #announcements if you plan to be there!