haecksathon #1

Opening notes

Hi 👋🙂

It’s so cool you’ve made it here.

Disclaimer

None of this is written in stone.

It is your time, and this is just what I came up with some days ago.

What’s happening

  • Small introduction
  • More steps

Reinforcing the mindset

We don’t do that here

We do not trash-talk or devalue other

  • Communities
  • Tools / tech choices
  • Programming languages

Example 1

  • Fiona doesn’t like LLMs (that AI thingy)
    • It is still a valid choice for you.
    • She cares more that you feel safe to learn and ask questions instead of what tools you use.

Example 2

  • Fiona thinks some programming languages are ‘better’ than others.
    • She will not tell you to use a specific one over another outside suggestions.
    • If you enjoy using some PL it’s a good pick.

We do that here

  • If you’re here you belong.
  • What we do/know/learn are the right things to do today
  • We help each other when we’re stuck
  • We ask all the questions
  • We value collaboration over top-down knowledge transfer

Suggested topic

Let’s build a website

  • Fast feedback
  • Smallish steps
  1. Create a .html file and view it
  • Explore HTML and CSS
  1. Get to know git and use it to share files
  • Optionally: publish the site somewhere
  1. Complicate it
  • Explore a static site generator like Astro
  • Get into this JavaScript thing

Suggested agenda

  • We group up and fiddle
  • We take a break
  • We fiddle some more
  • Check-in after the break