[eatonphil]

I ran a hack week a few months ago about postgres internals and it was super fun!

There weren't prizes, it was just about getting ~100 devs into a discord for a week and seeing what happened. Most people who stayed involved posted an update once a day or so and as people wrote blog posts or published a project I added it to the hack week page.

I'm looking forward to doing more in the future on topics like compression algorithms or emulators or CPython internals.

I'd also love to see more companies doing hackathons not just about using their product but implementing minimal versions. How better to find out how devs perceive your product, let alone a chance to teach your community and identify potential hires! If you want to try this I'd be happy to chat with you about my experience!

https://eatonphil.com/2023-10-wehack-postgres.html

[pitched]

I’d love to be doing more hacking like this. How do you go about advertising it? In the sense of, what should I be reading to find out about it?

[eatonphil]

I posted about it on LinkedIn, Twitter, and a Discord I run.