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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source · Apr 19, 2023 · 1 hr 33 min

How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers? (Interview)

This week we’re joined by Zach Latta, the Founder of Hack Club. At 16, Zach tested out of high school and moved to SF to join Yo as their first engineer. After playing a key role at Yo, he founded Hack Club to help teen hackers start coding clubs around the world. Today, teen hackers can meet IRL, online, at a hackathon, or leverage Hack Club Bank a fiscal sponsor to create their own organization. Hack Club is the program Zach wished he had in high school. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle. Feature flags, without the tech debt. DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform designed to help you build maintainable code at scale. Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Rocky Linux – Enterprise Linux, the open source community way. Featuring: Zach Latta – GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Invest in the future hacker generation hackclub.com Hack Club Bank hackclub/sprig Sprig - The game console where every player is a creator Meet the 18-year-old who left his job at ‘Yo’ to spread the joy of coding Founders Talk #81: The future of code search with Quinn Slack Changelog Interviews #369: Five years of freeCodeCamp with Quincy Larson SSH Tron The World’s Longest Hackathon: The Hacker Zephyr, July 2021 ToorCamp Thanks to the “How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?” meme for this title’s inspiration. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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This week we’re joined by Zach Latta, the Founder of Hack Club. At 16, Zach tested out of high school and moved to SF to join Yo as their first engineer. After playing a key role at Yo, he founded Hack Club to help teen hackers start coding clubs around the world. Today, teen hackers can meet IRL, online, at a hackathon, or leverage Hack Club Bank a fiscal sponsor to create their own organization. Hack Club is the program Zach wished he had in high school.

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

  • DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle. Feature flags, without the tech debt. DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform designed to help you build maintainable code at scale.
  • Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.
  • Rocky Linux – Enterprise Linux, the open source community way.

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Show Notes:

Thanks to the “How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?” meme for this title’s inspiration.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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