Thanks to Sara Chipps, and StackExchange for giving us a place to crash and eat Twillio's pizza, which they provided last minute, swooping in to save the day! We're sure everyone is hiring! (To apply to Twillio, send an SMS to HELPINEEDAJOB. --ed)
PatchMaster is a MIDI processing and patching system. It allows a musician to reconfigure a MIDI setup instantaneously and modify the MIDI data in real time.
This is a visualization of the US Budget that took a big pile of data and turned it into something useful and important for citizens and journalists.
"The Grid," a command-line only, open source social network that is like a disfigured, red-headed step child of usenet, imap, and git. There is no website. Your password is a public key. All messages are stored locally. Search is just grep. Your profile picture is ascii art. Your circles can have circles. There can't be ads.
- There's no URL, but if you have/install nc(1), you can get the README by doing: =nc 54.215.17.36 2448=
"Missing From Wikipedia" is a webapp that takes a list of people's names and tells you what subset of them don't have Wikipedia pages about them. (Hack and Tell isn't on Wikipedia, we need some sources to make us reputable. Can you help? -- ed)
John Conway's Game of Life implemented inside a canvas tag
This was a cool implementation, explanation, and visualization of gzip. Quote the Raven, n{evermore}.
An scrypt-based brainwallet for your Bitcoins. Obligitory, "use scrypt. use scrypt. use scrypt. use scrypt. use scrypt. use scrypt. use scrypt. use scrypt." (Yeah, I know the advice was use bcrypt, but he was wrong, Y'know? -- ed)
The ClojureScript koans are a site designed to help people learn ClojureScript. Unlike the Clojure koans or many other programming language koans, they run purely in the browser, using a special forked version of the ClojureScript compiler.
THIS. Quietnet is a chat program using inaudible sounds and a computer's microphone and speaker. And, if that weren't enough, her slides were from the future.
Deadlines are approaching to apply for the next batch. For more information, http://hackerschool.org
We'll see you in the new year! Keep an eye out for "call for presenters" and some changes to the way we do things.
Jamesdrew