Hackathons turned into “nice ui with mock data”-athons. Whoever got the best ui person on their team won. I benefitted from this a few times!
j45 4 minutes ago [-]
I thought I was the only one wondering why people are preparing in advanced with polish and not much to build the day of.
NDlurker 2 hours ago [-]
I like the fax machine idea. Reminds me of an idea I had. Get some receipt printers for my friends and we can print to each other's printers to send text messages
choubli 32 minutes ago [-]
That brings back memories. I once built an XHTML page served over WAP 2.0 (on 2G networks) from my home server that could send messages directly to the printer in my mother's office. It was incredibly clunky, but a lot of fun. I forgot to tell her before I tried it, so random pages just started coming out of the printer one day.
ElijahLynn 1 hours ago [-]
I was thinking about this the other day. Now that software is within reach of most idea makers, it opens the door for a much deeper level of tinkering. With very affordable, if not slow, 3d printers, and an abundance of hardware interfaces, I think we are going to see some really great weekend projects that will turn into beautiful, "where has this been until now" utility for the world!
I'm excited to see software engineers and teams morph into the next stage of product builders!
calepayson 21 minutes ago [-]
My little brother is a beach lifeguard but in the last year he’s pumped out so many incredible projects. It feels like he’s been unleashed. Such a cool era!
marketingess 42 minutes ago [-]
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hacker_88 2 hours ago [-]
Prompt-a-ton
ex-aws-dude 2 hours ago [-]
Listening to someone tell you about their AI-coded project is like listening to someone tell you a dream they had last night
"and then this happened, then this happened, then this feature, then this feature"
Wow that's crazy...
ojo-rojo 1 hours ago [-]
Ha, this is very true. When this happens I have to tell myself "Okay, time to wait out yet another story"
al_borland 1 hours ago [-]
Someone was bragging to me about their new AI startup a few months ago. I went to look at their website. It was some AI slop. I checked out the code for their form to register interest for the launch… it wasn’t setup at all. It was just a form that went nowhere. They had an idea, told AI to make a site about it, didn’t bother replacing the boilerplate to make it work, hosted it, and then started bragging to their friends about how they were going to be rich.
What a joke.
sublinear 56 minutes ago [-]
> We wired a Raspberry Pi...
> ...the focus of hackathons has completely shifted away from typing code...
> ...iterating on intricacies of implementation with radical refactors has become a trivial task...
The irony is unreal. Where's the hardware?
Since the advent of SBCs and microcontroller kits, software devs have felt the same way about hardware being trivial. Yet, a hardware engineer still makes a massive difference in the outcome of the project.
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nekiwo 1 hours ago [-]
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I'm excited to see software engineers and teams morph into the next stage of product builders!
"and then this happened, then this happened, then this feature, then this feature"
Wow that's crazy...
What a joke.
> ...the focus of hackathons has completely shifted away from typing code...
> ...iterating on intricacies of implementation with radical refactors has become a trivial task...
The irony is unreal. Where's the hardware?
Since the advent of SBCs and microcontroller kits, software devs have felt the same way about hardware being trivial. Yet, a hardware engineer still makes a massive difference in the outcome of the project.