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I'm writing a series of articles on designing a microcontroller board (with an ATmega328P) from scratch [1]. It's a totally different experience from just breadboarding. Some people are making NFC business cards, USB Hubs, and even smartwatches! [1] https://github.com/hackclub/hackclub/pull/1852

We're using Deno for some small projects at Hack Club. We open source everything. Code for them should be somewhere in https://github.com/hackclub/hackclub. In particular, we've been using it to replace some bash and Ruby scripts we had.

I run a nonprofit and we have a policy that we only accept unrestricted funds to allow us to operate at maximum efficiency and impact. There is a large and not often talked about principle agent problem that restricted donations create, in addition to the additional overhead. We make our finances 100% transparent so the people we serve, donors, and the public can hold us accountable. Our open finances are at https://bank.hackclub.com/hq/. Main homepage at https://hackclub.com / open source at https://github.com/hackclub/hackclub

This is huge. With Hack Club (https://github.com/hackclub/hackclub) we get a fair amount of PRs from beginners that have one or two minor issues. We eventually gave up trying to get beginners to fix their pull requests and would manually pull their work to our personal forks, fix it, and then open up new pull requests. Very excited to see this fixed.

Hack Club | San Francisco, CA | Remote/Onsite | Full Time | https://hackclub.com We're an early-stage nonprofit that helps high schoolers start after-school coding clubs. We've been around for just over 1.5 years and have grown to 82 schools across 16 states and 7 countries, reaching 1,500 students. We're looking to bring on someone to lead the development of our open-source curriculum. The ideal candidate has experience working as a software engineer, is passionate about teaching, and is excited by the idea of working on open-source full-time. Check out our stuff at https://github.com/hackclub/hackclub. If this is something that interests you, please shoot me an email directly at zach@hackclub.com and we'll set up a call to talk more about the position :-).

100% agree. I think the best way to learn to code is to... write a lot of code. I'd bet that's how most of the self-taught people here learned. Shameless plug: in Hack Club (https://github.com/hackclub/hackclub), our approach to teaching is to not actually "teach". Instead, we have a bunch of open-source workshops (https://workshops.hackclub.com) that walk high schoolers through the process of building a real thing (using real code), like a website or game. We don't expect them to understand everything that's happening. In fact, we expect learners to not understand 90% of what's happening -- our goal is to get people excited about hacking and have most of the learning happen when they're googling to build their own projects.

On that note, let's also add canaries to our own projects. The more mainstream this is, the better. Here's ours, which we added today: https://github.com/hackclub/hackclub/blob/master/TRANSPARENC.... Feel free to use this as a template for your own.