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. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – When your app breaks, fix it faster with Sentry Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 off the team plan. Learn more about what they shipped for Launch Week and Session Replay for Mobile. Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. AssemblyAI – Turn voice data into summaries with AssemblyAI’s leading Speech AI models. Built by AI experts, their Speech AI models include accurate speech-to-text for voice data (such as calls, virtual meetings, and podcasts), speaker detection, sentiment analysis, chapter detection, PII redaction, and more. Featuring: Acon – Website, GitHub Jerod Santo – Website, 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 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!