Hack 43 – November 2023

Rolling into the winter season, this was a refreshing, mostly morning, hack. We did pack a whole lot into those early hours, though, and bread, as per usual, dominated the hackday.

Things people did

• Ryan led the day off right with some tasty bread tales, and then proceeded to fix a lot of people’s hacks, reminiscent of an earlier-period Sound Guy. Oh yes, and he also showed off his OBS skills, recording us and then playing lots of picture-in-picture video, which was actually quite helpful for Adam. He then brought down his own harddrive with not only the hidden, but the still hidden files. There was dabbling in Elixir, to much merryment of the crowd.

• Joe Was an additional bread hacker, undertaking some freshly mixed sourdough baking, and also doing some coursework, which he vaguely hinted at, but then neglected to spill that piping hot tea on what exactly that means!

• Panda was barely convinced to not use Oracle Cloud and will instead move all the infra to CloudRun in GCP. He also helped Ben develop some QR code stuff, with a culmination of triggering a MITM attack on themselves.

• Ben Also showed up for the first half of the day, and immediately tried to show us confidential information. Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed upon him to only show us the non-confidential stuff, so we are safe from lawsuits…but for how long!??!!? He also recommended a dope podcast, that Adam is now listening to. He also forgot his own marketing for the hackday project (QR-TX codes), and had to be reminded what his project was called multiple times.

• Hugh put Irish tourism board Open Data into Datasette and now there’s a website where you can find all the castles in Carlow (a surprising number: https://irish-attractions.vercel.app/tags/Castle/counties/Carlow) and all the monastaries in Mayo (I’m beginning to suspect that there’s a bug because this is so many monastary related tourist attractions: https://irish-attractions.vercel.app/tags/Monastery/counties/Mayo). Plan your Irish holiday at https://irish-attractions.vercel.app/.

• Adam solved all his problems, by the simple expedient of suggesting the wrong way to record a picture-in-picture presentation video, forcing Ryan to demo his OBS skills and set Adam on the right path. The best part was when he “shared his screen” by holding up the other laptop screen to the webcam in order for Ryan to teach him how to screenshare in OBS.