Hackweek Projects - Realtime Markdown Editor and a Hardware Recording Button
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
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🗓️ 13 September 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. |
| 0:06.0 | Strap yourself in and get ready. Here is Scott Tolesky and West Boss. |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome to Syntax. We're going to be talking all about our |
| 0:16.3 | Hack Week projects that we did for a century. That was a really awesome, fun week we had, |
| 0:21.8 | working on some fun, exciting projects for a Hack Week century does this annually. |
| 0:26.5 | This was our first Hack Week with Century. We decided to go all out and try to do some fun stuff. |
| 0:32.4 | We're going to be breaking down what we did for our projects, some of the approaches we took, |
| 0:36.8 | some of the lessons we learned, and some interesting tidbits about while working with hardware, |
| 0:41.9 | working with multiplayer, working with markdown editors, and those types of things. |
| 0:45.8 | My name is Scott Tolesky. I'm a developer from Denver with me as always is West. What's up West? |
| 0:51.5 | Not too much. It was super fun to do a century Hack Week. I had never... I know a lot of |
| 0:57.7 | companies, maybe we should explain what that is. A lot of companies will set aside some amount of time |
| 1:02.9 | throughout their year. Often a lot of companies will give you a whole week and say, |
| 1:06.9 | all right, this week, they specifically said, don't merge anything unless it is absolutely necessary |
| 1:13.5 | because everybody's working on Hack Week stuff. Basically, you get the whole week to just work on |
| 1:19.1 | literally whatever you want. There's all kinds of different. One team made hot sauce and they |
| 1:23.2 | gasped out the entire Toronto office. A bunch of teams and a bunch of the century product features |
| 1:30.0 | have come out of Hack Week, which is cool. Often somebody will say, I got an issue with |
| 1:35.2 | how we do feature flagging or I've an issue with something in the application. I'm going to fix it |
| 1:40.1 | during Hack Week. Then other people, someone made a skate video with the syntax deck, which is |
| 1:45.2 | unbelievable. Some really cool stuff. Really cool stuff. Honestly, like you were saying, |
| 1:52.1 | it's an opportunity for people to work on things that are just creative projects that may turn |
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