Hack Club takes to the High Seas (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Jerod is joined by Hack Clubber Acon, who is fresh off the GitHub Universe stage and ready to tell us all about High Seas, a new initiative by Zach Latta and the Hack Club crew that’s incentivizing teens to build cool personal projects by giving away free stuff.

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Featuring:

• Acon – Website, GitHub
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Leave us a voicemail for state of the “log”!
• How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers? (Changelog Interviews #536)
• High Seas | Hack Club
• Apocalypse: Toronto’s zombified high school hackathon!
• Celeste
• Nitro Type | Competitive Typing Game | Race Your Friends
• Secret of Mana - Wikipedia

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1. Welcome to The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:01:12)

https://sentry.io/

3. Start the show! (00:03:11)

4. Acon at Hack Club (00:05:03)

5. Designing Apocalypse (00:07:01)

6. Finding Hack Club (00:08:14)

7. Bottle cap obsession (00:09:44)

8. Gamification learnings (00:13:26)

9. On gaming (00:18:51)

10. On art (00:20:59)

11. Adapting to the web (00:22:21)

12. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:23:38)

https://fly.io/

13. High Seas (00:28:08)

14. Prizes! (00:31:26)

15. A trip down memory lane (00:34:42)

16. 4,980 doubloons (00:35:57)

17. Who built this? (00:38:36)

18. Guido & Anders! (00:40:13)

19. FAQs (00:42:01)

20. Sponsor: AssemblyAI (00:42:24)

https://www.assemblyai.com/?utm_source=changelog&utm_medium=podcast

21. What's next for Acon? (00:43:53)

22. Gap year & beyond (00:45:32)

23. Coming up next (sotl!) (00:47:39)

https://changelog.fm/sotl