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July 2022

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👁️ What’s up at Hack Club? 👁️

Hey friends! I'm Ishan (@Ishan), I'm 17, and I'm a Hack Clubber emailing you from Vermont!

@sampoder and me (right) at Hack Club HQ

This email is a 5-minute monthly rundown of what your fellow Hack Clubbers have been up to this past month! You're receiving this email because you're in the Hack Club Slack.

Four Community Ships 🚢

Ian made GitWrite – "Ever wanted to add easter eggs to your GitHub profile, or leave a fancy message for anyone inspecting your contribution graph?" It does so by spoofing the dates on past commits. As to why he built it, Ian responded with a solid "why not?"

↗️ Check out GitWrite

Mutammim made Bunny – a Slack command that lets you find active channels – because "I wanted to help Hack Clubbers find where conversation was currently happening, so they can discover new channels and meet new people!" Try it out by running /bunny in Slack! The repository's description is "🐇What's trending on your Slack? See the most active channels."

↗️ Try and run /bunny

Ellie, along with help from Arcade, shipped the Hack Club Tilde server – a shared Linux server – on June 8. I asked Ellie what the motivation behind the project was – "to try and recapture the feeling of computers being a forum and not a device."

↗️ Post your SSH pubkey in #tilde!

Jessica and her crack team of Assembly enthusiasts, which includes Belle, Tej, carot, Ella and Henry shipped Some Assembly Required – a cute, approachable guide to the notoriously difficult assembly language – and boy did it ship, gaining more than 1.3K stars in a single day. It's now almost at 2K stars! As Jessica recounts, "Since forever ago, I've wanted to try writing assembly, even if just to understand why the Rollercoaster Tycoon creator would write 99% of the game in it." The project even climbed to the #1 spot on Hacker News.

↗️ Start reading the guide

Feel free to reach out to anyone here on Slack, and post updates about your own projects in #scrapbook. Let everyone know when you're done by posting it in #ship!

Collaborate & Get Involved!

Chris Walker and his team – Claire, Eleeza, Prof. Sucrose, Neel, Ripley, Cadova, Kara, and others – are all getting ready to ship SineRider, "the dankest math game of all time", and you can join the fun! Play the game, head over to SineRider's public project board on GitHub and make PRs. As Chris says, "Remember, the Prophet Orpheus needs YOU!"

↗️ Play the game!

Get together IRL!!

150+ hackers will gather at Assemble, Hack Club's hackathon in Figma's 100,000 square foot San Francisco HQ from August 5 to 7! There's still a handful of spots left at Assemble, so get signed up! There's a limited number of travel stipends available. ​​ Zach promises there are no surprises at Assemble, but we don't believe him.

I asked DALL-E 2 what the hackathon might look like ("hackers eating pizza at high noon, realistic style"). Warning: ⚠️ results may not be accurate.

↗️ Register for Assemble

Fun things!!!


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Yours truly,
Ishan

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PS: Have you seen the JWST's first image yet??? It blows my mind that we put the telescope there right in time to capture light that began its journey 13 billion years ago.

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