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

2. Get to know git and use it to share files

• Optionally: publish the site somewhere

3. 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