Hello World! My name is Stef. You may know me as the girl with the paint from Bitcamp. I'm excited to announce my new monthly Art Hack series for MLH, featuring tutorials and stories chronicling my experience...

What’s in Your HackPack is a recurring series that examines the gear hackers bring with them to hackathons. For this installment, we peek inside Kevin Lewis’ messenger bag. Kevin is a JavaScript...

This post is an op-ed from Stef Cohen, an engineering student at the University of Maryland. You might know her as the girl with the paint from Bitcamp. Keep an eye out for Stef’s Art Hack tutorials! Like...

What’s in Your HackPack is a recurring series that examines the gear hackers bring with them to hackathons. For this installment, MLH’s operations manager, Li Chen, gives us a peek inside her Herschel...

Imagine the perfect hackathon team. It’s the day of and you’re giddy with anticipation. Calm and collected, you arrive on time with total focus and absolute conviction that in 36 hours, your demo will make...

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...

What’s in Your HackPack is a recurring series where we take a look at the gear hackers are bringing with them to hackathons. For the inaugural installment, MLH’s creative director Aziz Ramos gives us a...

The time crunch of a hackathon can push you to do great things. Everyone is under the same deadline, regardless of the scope of their project and this can be both frustrating and exhilarating. Sometime your...

Hackathons are exploding. An event previously reserved for a niche audience, the hackathon has proliferated into mainstream culture, represented in everything from David Fincher films, to the pages of the New...