Time For Some Major League Hacking
Podcast: The Stack Overflow PodcastPublished On: Tue Dec 17 2019
Description: To kick things off, we talk about Yap, a fun new project from Paul’s company, Postlight. Employees get to partake in a Labs program where they can pursue side projects that interest them. Yap is "an ephemeral, real-time chat room with up to six participants. Your messages appear and disappear as quickly as you type them.” It was built with Elixir...ooooh.For our interview this week we sat down with Jon Gottfried and Mary Siebert from Major League Hacking. Jon is the company’s co-founder and Mary is the Hackathon Community Manager. We discuss how this organization has become a global phenomenon over the past few years, reaching hundreds of thousands of developers. Things that happen these days at Major League Hackathons: Painting succulents Cup stacking competitions Therapy dogs, lots of them If you're interested in sponsoring a Major League Hackathon, check out the info here.This is our last episode of the year. We’ll be back in 2020 with some more amazing guests and brilliant banter. Thanks for tuning in, see ya in the new year.
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