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...

Next month, we will be welcoming 150 hackathon organizers to San Francisco for Hackcon III at GitHub HQ. With final preparations underway, we’re set for a weekend filled with learning and collaboration...

It’s that time of year again! We’re thrilled to announce the 2015 Fall hackathon season, kicking off in August following our season finale, Hack the Planet. The 2015 Spring season was our biggest yet, with...

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...