Why I Love Hack This Fall 2.0?

BaileyLuu — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 04:14:54 +0000

Hi everyone, let me introduce myself.
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I'm Bailey Luu, a 3rd year Computer Security student at York University. I am a Hackathon Evangelist at Hack This Fall. ElleHacks was my first hackathon in Feb 2020 and I had no experience of any tech stack except Java. One of our teammates have experience in Figma and that's how I know a new tech stack. Fast forward to the present, I become more active in hackathon community after I joined Blahajgang in Local Hack Day: Build and Local Hack Day: Share, hosted by Major League Hacking.

I have opportunities to complete daily challenges with my friends, team up for the future hackathons and learn about Firebase and Google Cloud Platform. The reasons I tell you all of these because I want to emphasize that community is the best place for you to grow and make new connections with people from around the world. I would like to talk about Hack This Fall and why I love about it.

Hack This Fall is a 48 Hours Virtual Hackathon where we aim to promote hackers and help them nurture their new ideas and prototypes in various domains. Our motto, "Innovate For Good", is to involve more beginner hackers and support everyone to solve the shared problems of our society to bring a change in a revolutionary way.

For season 2, we are focusing on creating more learning opportunities along with building and solving. We will talk about various technologies, create awareness, encourage others, hack to contribute, and participate in many more exciting events & session. - HTF

For every Wednesday at 11:30 AM ET | 9 PM IST, @hackthisfalldev hosts #HTFConnect on HTF's discord for hackers to learn, network, and share.

What people learnt at HTFConnect 🤝

First HTFConnect!

We got to introduce ourself and meet new people from around the world! One thing that Hack This Fall makes me excited about is the diversity. I get to learn people from Malawi, Vadodara, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, and many more.

Second HTFConnect!

One of the discussions were about how people feel towards LinkedIn such as feeling stressful when someone post about swags or achievements. People are facing imposter syndrome, doubting their own abilities. Although LinkedIn helps people to find jobs but it has side effects. After I listened to people's perspective towards LinkedIn, it gave me an idea for Hackathon project. During Build a Modern Data App hackathon hosted by AngelHack and DataStax, our team built a website called LetsShill that allows people to share their projects and learn from getting feedbacks from others. Since LinkedIn is a professional website, it doesn't give people who are beginner an opportunity to show off their projects. LetsShill allows people from different experience levels to show their projects publicly. You can view our project on Replit, we still need to add additional feature. If I didn't join HTFConnect, I would not have built LetsShill and would not have won the category, "First 30 Quality Submissions".

Fourth HTFConnect!
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Shivay Lamba joined as our special guest, GSoC mentor, to guide us about Google Summer of Code (GSOC) and Open Source Contributions!

Things I Takeaway

GSOC is a global program that focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development.
Students will write a proposal about their programming project and if get accepted, they will work with open source organization for 10 weeks.
Matters is your proposal. If you truly understand your project, have a clear vision, and understand your contribution, you're good.
For your proposal, the judges will consider if you have contribute to open source before, the activeness, what have you done so far, describe how you feel about solving/contribute that specific project. Guide on Writing a Proposal
Google wants students to get inspired, become self reliance.

Speaker Session and What People Learnt 🗣️

Dear performant app by Nishu Goel

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Things I Takeaway

Optimizing the application as much as we can.
Use Web.dev to analyze the website's performance and how to improve the performance.
First Contentful Paint (FCP): the time the application takes to load on the browser for the first time. Good FCP is 1.8s and bad FCP is 3s.
There are 3 Core Web Vitals which are loading, interactivity, visual stability and they use metrics such as Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift, essential to delivering a great user experience on the web.
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): the largest time your application could take for the first content successful render. Good LCP is 2.5s, bad LCP is 4s.
First Input Delay (FID): the first time the user interacted their video application, a click, a hover, what was the response of the browser, how much did it took. Good FID is 100 ms, bad FID is 300 ms.
Cumulative layout shift (CLS): a measure of the largest burst of layout shift scores for every unexpected layout shift that occurs during the entire lifespan of a page. Good CLS is 0.1s, bad CLS is 0.25s.
Improve LCP by using inline critical CSS, inline fonts, optimize files (use imagemin, use CDN, responsive images, newer formats (webp, jpeg2000)
Improve FID by deferring unused JavaScript (code splitting, async/defer). For example, only load the Login module if the user click the Login page.
Improve CLS by giving dimensions to images, iframe, elements, and only show the content when the user is expecting it.

Build a Twitter UI Clone using React JS by Praveen Kumar

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Things I Takeaway

Using CodeSandBox to code ReactJS application.
Using SassMeister to translate SASS to CSS.
Using Bootstrap to build responsive website

After looking all the Twitter's posts about speaker sessions, it makes me want to join more sessions and learn! Do check out HTF's Schedule for future sessions!

Let's share some AMAZING HTF milestones! 🥳🎉🎉🎉

@hackthisfalldev crossed 1000+ Community Members on Discord!
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@hackthisfalldev became MLH Member Event for season 2022
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@hackthisfalldev has crossed 1000+ registrations & discord members! #Github tee
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Reasons why I love about Hack This Fall

Speaker sessions are teaching hackers and inspire hackers to teach others. The sessions can help hackers to get ready for the Hack This Fall which will take place from October 22 at 12 PM IST-24, 2021.
HTFConnect encourages hackers to step outside of the box, learn from one another and share what they learn.
Get SWAGS by participating the speaker sessions and HTFConnect. You can get free digital swags on HTF's Swag Page
I get to meet AMAZING Hackathon Evangelists and Hackers!

Hack This Fall Social Media Links

Visit Hack This Fall for more information🚀
Register on Devpost and use referral code HTFHE097
Join HTF Discord Community
Twitter
Instagram
LinkedIn
YouTube

If you have any other questions, you can contact Siddharth, an organizer of HTF. Here are some of his links below:

Please also reach out to Hackathon Evangelists on Discord if you have any queries because we are here to make sure you have a great time at Hack This Fall. If you see any "Hackathon Evangelist" tag, feel free to reach out. :)

You can also reach out to me, I'm happy to help :):

Personal Blog during LHD:Share

BaileyLuu — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 15:49:49 +0000

Welcome to my blog as I share about my experience in Blahajgang during LHD:Share

Before the event start, I joined Blahajgang. I love the guild the energy and the spirit of welcoming new members. I did not know that we would reach #1 position. Blahajgang or also called MELONsquad is a really active guild. Not only do we try to earn points together, but we also learn something new and teach one another. When I'm in MELONsquad, I feel urge to complete the challenges because everyone is so active and encouraging. Therefore I want to contribute to the guild. To be honest, when I was Build, the guild did not have enough energy or spirit to encourage the members, thus, I wasn't really active. MELONsquad loves to make memes and talk about Blahaj! We do have our own Blahaj's Kitchen, Living Room and even ASMR Arena! If you ever join LHD, MELONsquad x Blahajgang is the dream guild and the role model of what the guild should look like. I guarantee you would love the experience. We have our own discord group and we welcome anyone to join this journey with us. It does not matter whether you know coding or not, we are here to help one another and of course, HAVE FUN WITH BLAHAJ!
https://blahaj.lol/discord

Hacking Experience as a Blahajgang member at LHD:Share

BaileyLuu — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 06:38:31 +0000

About MLH

"Major League Hacking (MLH) is the official student hackathon league. Each year, we power over 200 weekend-long invention competitions that inspire innovation, cultivate communities and teach computer science skills to more than 65,000 students around the world. MLH is an engaged and passionate maker community, consisting of the next generation of technology leaders and entrepreneurs." -MLH

About LHD

"It is an MLHer’s responsibility to share their knowledge with the world and help everyone build amazing things"-MLH
Thus MLH host Local Hack Day event with different themes such as Learn, Build and Share. Everyone is welcome to participate, even if you don't know how to code. Each day, there are different challenges for you to solve or complete to earn points.

What do I learn from LHD?

There are A LOT of workshops which the MLHers will guide you through different topics that you may have or may have not learn before. You will get to learn how to write a simple code to write your own website! Or you will learn about Data Visualization, Machine Learning or more. I learned how to create my own data visualization and web scrapping applications (Discord bot).

What do I enjoy the most from LHD?

I recommend you should join a guild because they will help you to get through the challenges and you can also discuss/share your ideas with one another. I'm currently a member of Blahajgang and they are the best! Adam and Jack are really active and helpful to guide new members to go through different challenges. I love my guild so much because we are not alone, we collaborate with one another. We get to meet different people from around the world and share the laughter. Most important, we get to enjoy what we learn and build! The reason why I joined LHD:Share because I joined LHD:Build before. I was Eddie Hub's member and we did the same thing. We helped one another and had conversations.

Why you SHOULD join LHD?

YOU SHOULD BECAUSE MLH WELCOME EVERYONE, NO MATTER IF YOU HAVE NO CODING EXPERIENCE. IT IS WORTH TO JOIN BECAUSE YOU GET TO LEARN AND BUILD NEW THINGS. LHD IS A WAY FOR YOU TO IMPROVE YOURSELF.

Conclusion

Join us. We're not a cult, we are community -Blahajgang
https://melon.blahajgang.lol

DEV Community: BaileyLuu

Why I Love Hack This Fall 2.0?

What people learnt at HTFConnect 🤝

Speaker Session and What People Learnt 🗣️

Dear performant app by Nishu Goel

Build a Twitter UI Clone using React JS by Praveen Kumar

Let's share some AMAZING HTF milestones! 🥳🎉🎉🎉

Reasons why I love about Hack This Fall

Hack This Fall Social Media Links

Personal Blog during LHD:Share

Welcome to my blog as I share about my experience in Blahajgang during LHD:Share

Hacking Experience as a Blahajgang member at LHD:Share

About MLH

About LHD

What do I learn from LHD?

What do I enjoy the most from LHD?

Why you SHOULD join LHD?

Conclusion