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Hello Hackers-
Thanks to Etsy for being wonderful hosts and for providing beer. And thanks to James's company, Terrapin Bale, for providing the pizza and soda.
NSA is collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily
completeme is a python script to auto-complete filenames in a given directory, much like Github's 't' keyboard shortcut or Command-T in TextMate or SublimeText. When you've settled on the file you'd like to edit, press "Enter" to open it with whatever's in your $EDITOR variable or press "Tab" to drop that filename at the end of your current command.
R2D is a 2D graphics library for Ruby. It was built to support teaching people how to code Ruby and has grown into something that supports many of the requirements for building games.
Dvorany is an Arduino-powered box that enables the use of the Dvorak keyboard layout in any computer, without having to change the system settings. Plug it in and your keyboard will be a Dvorak, simple as that.
Obama V. Reagan is an art project to help demonstrate the similarity between things Obama and Reagan have said. The Hack And Tell crew was on point distinguishing between O and R^2.
This guy used Go and LLVM to recompile NES ROMs into native machine code. Seriously, look at this.
Rho Contracts is a javascript implementation of Racket's higher-order contracts. The goal is to bring the kind of reliability we usually get from static types to a language that does not have a static type system.
Pecunia Nunc is a project to scrape kickstarter projects and send a daily email listing projects ending the same day.
Gitfiti is a tool that generates a commit history that will decorate your github account's commit history graph with pixel grafitti.
Harold built a [mechanical linkage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkage_(mechanical) simulator using numeric.js and html5 canvas. The software was written to simulate the behavior of transformable Penrose tilings, but is general enough to simulate many planar linkages.
brassReader is a replacement for Google reader. Feeds are downloaded by the extension and stored in the IndexedDB in the browser.
Free As In Freedom is the free (as in Freedom) autobiography of Richard Stallman.
Sooooooooooooooooooooooonnnn
US: San Francisco, DC, Boulder, South Florida, Hudson Valley, and Kansas City Intl: Berlin, Germany; Melbourne, Australia; and Singapore
Check out http://hackandtell.org for links, and maybe one day we'll make a better hackandtell.org.
Happy hacking,
James and Andrew