I would love to attend Hackbright as a student for a variety of reasons; this is deeply unlikely for a yet larger variety of reasons.

  • food and drink and mingling and photography (I skipped)
  • Michelle Glauser ‘Welcome to Alumnaehood’ - singing the gif-tastic praises of the alum association
  • Joel Burton Dir. of Edu. of Hackbright: “what the program is like”
  • A Day in the Life at Hackbright by Sarah “I drank the kool-aid” “So you’re going to coding bootcamp. This was crazy talk to most of the people that I knew.”
    • wonderful script as schedule
    • “this office had a dog. It was really nice.”
    • lots of munchery orders after hours during project week
  • Demos: all on one single computer. Yay!
    • Sadie Wilhelm, Pensive Passport - travel plan comparator
    • Viola, The Hunt - job-finding personal tracker of in-flight applications, with notes
    • Alina Kuchinski, Skillit - person-finding and help-sharing app with location sensing.
    • Lindsie Grizzard, ArtUp - formulae that go into how to hang the art for an exhibition, track by walls in exhibition
    • Tiffany Williams (previous PhD cancer biology), WunderLand - book discovery via geographic locations related to the book, used python Natural Language Toolkit
    • Teresa K (molecular / cellular biology), Mineralchemy - data from etsy and ebay API, Minfind (scraped), radial tree for taxonomy of minerals, mindat,org
    • Becca Powell, Break It Up - like billsup + expensify but fancier, with OCR. Venmo integration!
    • Julie Han, roller derby stats tracker -
    • Dana, Intonation Coach - helps you practice your intonation
    • Leslie Castillianos (nonprofit funddraising management), Brew Day - helps you manage your beer brewing cycyle, with timers and steps, with calendar reminders!
    • Shabnam, Crime Map -
    • Rachel, Talkalot - audio request and storage service for oral histories “when I was your age…”
    • Judy Chow (GIS technician, trying to fix the data), Mapster - travel planner avoiding backtracking, uses Yelp api
    • Emily, PricePing - texts you when amazon price goes down
    • Kiera Hall (dir. of museum services @ Museum of african diaspora), Armchair Activist - five-click challenge!, Ammado integration
    • Alexandra Persaris, eCred - credit card payment plan planner.
  • Summary of upcoming deadlines

Terrible jokes:

  • What do you call eight hobbits? A Hobb-byte!
  • Do you want to hear a joke about oxygen and potassium? OK
  • Pirate’s favorite programming language? Not R, but the C! (sea)

My favorite things:

  • BeautifulSoup
  • ArtUp (a thing that I didn’t know existed, that probably did not exist before, that is useful to a known albeit small set of people)
  • Break It Up (useful to me personally)
  • grey symbolic systems tshirt some dude was wearing

Pondering: The quality of what a person ends up building is related to the variety of their experiences

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