Hack 03 – May 2020

Things people did

• Alan & Mike built a web app that lets you listen to Spotify together with friends. It has incredible integration using the Spotify Web API. And, very importantly, supports dark mode. 🎵

• Saul worked on a space-invaders style game using React & svg, using Auth0 for login, and Firebase for storing a highscore list. Very fun (and difficult!) 🎵

• Dag added live github notifications and looked into automatically triaging issues using github actions! He told us about useful sites & tools: comeover.io – for watching “non-netflix” videos, smee.io – for developing webhook handlers & probot – for automating github tasks. 🎵

• Pete looked into code diffing and compiled a list of instances where github generated diffs weren’t too great. In a calm/heroic/unstoppable coding session wrote a script that resolved those issues. 🎵

• Dan checked out the danceability of music tracks using Spotify audio features api, and wondered about if this could be used to analyse festival line-ups! He took us through some example responses, and discussed some of the different properties and their distributions. Fascinating stuff! 🎵

• Adam & Ben are now big-fish publishing executives with their new hit-podcast “AirQuotes The Podcast AirQuotes” 🎵. Creating the finest organic & hand-rolled xml, they found cast-feed-validator useful and recorded episodes straight from zoom. Feedback from listeners:

  • “It’s weird how professional this looks” – Pete
  • “Have you thought about being on YouTube, or maybe the TV?” – Dan

• Gabor bbq’d up some apples 🎵.

• Ryan spent the day Birthdaying 🎉