DC Hack and Tell

Round 8: Appreciation Engine

Thanks to everyone who came out on Tuesday, to all our excellent presenters, and to the amazing WeWork Chinatown for the beautiful space and keg! If you’re done identifying cats, it’s on to the presentations at hand!

• Matt bought a phone number and called everyone in the room by coding before our very eyes with twilio-python. This stuff could form the basis of any number of future hacks!

• Michael has found something useful to do with twitter! Now you too can simulate alphabetic execution in the JUDGEMENT of the TWEETS!

• Shannon has crafted a choose-your-own-artventure game that you can play right now! Museum APIs?! Museum hackathons?! Naming rights?!?! wow.

• Nick brought us into the DC Action for Children project that he leads, making a very cool DC visualization tool. There might still be time to contribute before it’s released!

• Alan demonstrated thinkContext, a browser plugin that proactively adds contextually relevant progressive information to the web. Across so many browsers! [github]

• Jen built a whole tiny data center and she brought it to Hack and Tell! Much fun was had unplugging things and seeing how the DB reacted.

• Max stepped up at the last minute with tons of fun digits of precision [github] and a resume generator made with faker.

We’re working on scheduling the May H&T; there are already a couple cool projects on deck. :) Thanks again everybody! Happy hacking!