Hack 10 – January 2021

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

Things people did

• Henry joined us from California, where it was 2am! Simultaneously becoming our remote-ist and our most nocturnal hacker.

• Ruth showed people her laser cutter, which she used to etch & cut a jigsaw 🧩⚡️. Then she did some hacking with convolution filters using WebAudio 🎷. She blgged about it here!

• Dimitri was planning to learn Rust by using it to compile Elm to JavaScript. Though he ended up helping people find bugs before they’d even written the code that introduced them 💅.

• Panda planned to write some software to help keep his plants alive, but instead got sucked into Bens AWS vortex (🌱💀)

• Max intended to work on his LensLok solver, but instead worked on the Airquotes the Podcast Airquotes branding

• Mike used NextJS and MDX to build a blog with dynamic graphs in it!

• Dan learned some Typescript, then taught people AWS, DNS & service features, and then became an elite streamer by mastering OBS

• Ben pulled Dan, Dimitri, Ryan, Panda and everyone down the rabbit hole of LIDAR/PCAP and AWS hacks. (he’s very sorry, but also had a great time.)

• Alan got to grips with static site building with 11ty 👨‍💻

• Emanuil joined us in the afternoon, and worked on a FOSSJobs site 👍

• Piers told us about his VW Camper hack and chatted about augmented reality, then programmed a microcontroller to measure distances.

• Adam intended to create some statically rendered flashcards with nextJS but ended up just interviewing people and getting a PR Merged into Ruth’s generative artistry website