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!