👀 What’s up at Hack Club this time? 👀
Hey friends! I'm Ishan (@Ishan), I'm 17, and I'm a Hack Clubber emailing you again! A special thank you to Belle and Sam for helping out so much with today's edition.
This email is a 5-minute monthly rundown of what your fellow Hack Clubbers have been up to the past month! You're receiving this email because you're in the Hack Club Slack.
Five Fun July Ships 🚢
Maggie shipped Replbio, an easy way to make one of those fancy bio pages you've seen on the net: you just define your name, profile picture, and social links in JSON, and it gets hosted on Replit, complete with a guestbook 😮!! Check out Maggie's own bio page here. I asked her how she got the idea for Replbio: "Glitch has a cool glitch-in-bio project, so i thought it would be fun to make one that worked on Replit and add more features!"
Jaden made Dino Explorer, his first ship! It let's you view multiple dinos at once instead of scrolling through the hackclub/dinosaurs repo. Here's Jaden's motivation behind the JavaScript project was: "I made dino explorer to see all the amaazing dinos at once :0"
Aiden pushed an update to Million.js, a lightweight Virtual DOM, that makes React 11 times faster
. Why? Because "facebook is slow so lets make react fast"
Japroz made arc, their own compiled programming language that uses LLVM! It even has smart error messages!
"I wanted a high level language with a strong type system that compiles (zig does exactly that) but i wanted to implement my own compiled language". Truly 
John made GuessThatRank, a neat social game where you guess players' rank based on clips of gameplay and submit your own! It just hit 500 users 🎉. You can find the code (mostly TypeScript) on GitHub.
When asked why he made GuessThatRank, John had a really relatable answer:
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!
Milkshakes, Stupid Sh*t Nobody Needs & A Rogue Dinosaur.
Yes, I'm talking about Assemble. Or rather, 
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How does one put fourty-two hours of chaos into a couple of sentences? I'm not sure, but I'm going to give it a shot. On August 5th, 175 Hack Clubbers descended on Market Street in San Francisco for the first high school hackathon in 🌁 San Francisco since the pandemic! Together, we built projects based on the prompt "Stupid Shit Nobody Needs", fought
The Organization, chugged down (potentially) dangerous amounts of caffeine, had a late-night disco and much more.
The highlight for me, however, was getting the chance to meet so many Hack Clubbers! We had folks from 12 different countries and 20+ US states, each of them incredibly special individuals who I wish I could have spent hours more talking to. Words really can't describe the ✨ magical ✨ atmosphere that took over Figma's office that weekend.
I'd recommend checking out our 📸 collaborative photo album, 🚢 everyone's projects on Scrapbook and Arianna's vlog of the entire event.
Last but not least, we're open sourcing every part of Assemble: github.com/hackclub/assemble!
- Sam Poder
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Yours truly,
Ishan
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