Hackathons & analytics, peas & carrots, etc.
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...
Life Hacks: How I Stay Productive With Gmail Labels
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,...
This is How You Craft a Killer Live API Demo
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...
I Hacked the Middle-Out Compression From ‘Silicon Valley’
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...
We Asked Hackers What Makes an Ideal Hackathon
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...
10 Ways ‘Hackers’ Proves Technology Was More Glorious In 1995
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...
Fares Alaboud: Changing Lives at HackLondon
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...
Deploy Your Hack in 3 Steps: Intro to AWS and Elastic Beanstalk
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...
My Second Hackathon Changed My Life
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...
5 Hacking Trends We’ve Seen This Season So Far
Ahoy hackers! When you hit up as many hackathons as we have, you begin to see some pretty clear trends in the kinds of hacks being produced. For some reason or another, hackers tend to rally around a few...