Hack Club takes to the High Seas (Interview)

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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