I won’t pretend to have understood all of the 5-minute presentations given by members of this NYC hack community on their works-in-progress at last night’s Hack and Tell meetup. If you’re a developer or other interested party who wants to find out what other codo sapiens are up to, than this friendly, supportive meetup is for you.
A driving cold rain in Manhattan didn’t stop around 40 or so hackers from gathering at QLabs space on lower Broadway to hear talks that ranged over the stack. There were chats on low-level tools for off-the-beaten path languages like Scala–ok, I never head of it but that doesn’t mean anything–and node.js students will have learned about a new framework called flatiron.
But it wasn’t all technical and granular. David Joerg, who runs a non-profit and just learned how to do web programming, gave a neat presentation on his project for embeddable, editable interactive charts. And Ilya Bagrak made imaginative use of Bing’s image APIs to generate shareable pict-o-gram puzzles. You have to experience his Turn-o-Phrase app to get a sense of the hacky, joyful spirit of this meetup.
We’ll let you know when the next one is scheduled.
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