Hack 26 – May 2022

An amazing and very full hackday! We returned to a full house, with 9 people joining! There were so many problems that we solved, our only problem was how to find more problems!

Things people did

• Max fixed everyone’s problems, which was exceedingly helpful.

• Hugh joined us for the first time, and had an issue with NextJS images..

• …and Max fixed it.

• …and then Hugh had another problem with multi-window Windows and WSL…

• …and then Max fixed that as well!

• and THEN Hugh worked out how to use steampipe to SELECT HTML FROM INTERNET using postgres.

• Joe was also a first-time remote hacker, and did some amazing physical hacking on an axe block. He may have recursively needed to sharpen the axe he used on it with a different axe block…

• Dan had a website, and we guilted him into adding a meta description (name, not property!) to get those hundreds on lighthouse! He also learned how to share an entire screen in discord!

• Becky was looking at some GCP cloud IDE stuff, and we anxiously awaited a demo…and then she decided to get into some kind slash rootless docker slash podman stuff, which was a classic remotehack misdirection!

• Gabor kept trying to tell his neighbours not to have people park in front of his garage. Gawdy stickers were discussed as a solution.

• Ryan went to an optometrist, and got certified as still having eyes. We rejoiced.

• Panda was working out how to remove Google fonts from his project…

• …and then Max solved his problem.

• And THEN Panda decided to move into devops, and everyone was massively encouraging.

• Max fixed more problems.

• Adam was trying to get all the docs from AWS/GCP/Azure, and had limited success…he definitely ordered two foam cowbow hats to turn into headphones.

• …and then Max fixed his own problems with installing rvm on a raspberry pi.

• …and then HUGH solved Adam’s problem with his discord audio settings!

• And THEN Adam wanted to take f10design.com to a factor of 10…and Max also solved that (with assistance from Panda).

• Most importantly, Dan was able to fix the issues from the Jira-tracker on his train text site, and in doing so, he SAVED THE JUBILEE!!!

…AND we also recorded 3 micro-casts and a hackside chat!

Total problems solved: 1,373