Miscellaneous

We’re writing this post to announce to the community a brand-new initiative for MLH that we’re excited about, but that we felt needed some explanation and some context. This Spring, we’ll be piloting...

Howdy! I’m Tim Falls - VP, Community at Keen IO. I’ve been involved with hackathons for the last five years of my life. Over the past year or so, as I joined Keen and became more focused on data...

On average, I spend about 22 percent of my work week in Gmail either reading, writing, or responding to emails. That might sound high, but believe it or not, I’m actually a little below the average,...

A Twilio evangelist stands at the front of the room expectantly, as a hacker quickly taps ten digits into their phone and sends a text message. A minute later, every phone in the room erupts in a chorus of...

If you've been to a hackathon recently, you might have noticed a suspicious uptick in the amount of compression related projects. Seriously, they're everywhere, and it's no mystery why. One of the things that...

Hack the Planet is rapidly approaching and MLH is gearing up for an epic hackathon, with participants coming in from all around the world for 36 hours of learning, building and sharing at the Computer...

Cyberpunk cult-classic Hackers turns 20 this year and we wanted to see how well it holds up. For the uninitiated, Hackers tells the story of a group of gifted high school students caught up in a sinister...

This weekend, I had the honour of organising and running HackLondon, the largest UK hackathon I've ever been to, organised or seen with my own eyes. I had the pleasure of working with a team of inspiring and...

You walk into your hackathon this weekend and are handed a business card from MLH and AWS with a URL on it. You head to the URL, fill out the form, and a magic $100 promo credit appears in your inbox to use on...

Four years ago today, my friend John Britton dragged me to my first hackathon. It changed my life in ways I never could have imagined. For those of you who started attending hackathons more recently, it is...