Hack Club takes to the High Seas (Changelog Interviews #620)

Jerod is joined by Hack Clubber Acon, who is fresh off the GitHub Universe stage and ready to tell us all about High Seas, a new initiative by Zach Latta and the Hack Club crew that’s incentivizing teens to build cool personal projects by giving away free stuff.

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Featuring:

• Acon – Website, GitHub
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Leave us a voicemail for state of the “log”!
• How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers? (Changelog Interviews #536)
• High Seas | Hack Club
• Apocalypse: Toronto’s zombified high school hackathon!
• Celeste
• Nitro Type | Competitive Typing Game | Race Your Friends
• Secret of Mana - Wikipedia

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