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Check out these subversively dumb projects from the Stupid Hackathon
Lift your brow from the scorched terrorscape of high technocapitalism, look directly into the stupid sun, and smile. Dozens of Brooklyn and Manhattan tech weirdos convened this weekend for the second...
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Stop copy-and-pasting and get the app that adds ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ to your keyboard
A lot has been made of the shrug emoticon and that’s because it’s the best emoticon in existence. Now, one enterprising Bushwick developer has made an app that adds ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ to your keyboard, a la...
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Check out this presentation on vector games
Here’s some content to chew on over the weekend. Brooklyn tech guru (and Technical.ly contributor!) Adelle Lin and fellow NYC Resistor Holly Hudson taught a class on vector retrogaming for Code...
View ArticleCatt Small takes on tech, creativity and diversity
A new must-read essay by Brooklyn Technologist of the Year Catt Small examines why people think there is a divide between coding and engineering, and how, even if tech is diversifying, there remains...
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Find any bot ever with this awesome online encyclopedia
If you were ever a kid who opened up the encyclopedia and liked to flip through the thin pages and read at random, then this is a project for you. Stefan Bohacek decided he would catalog every bot on...
View ArticleWith this simple hack you can chat with your site’s visitors on Facebook...
So this is cool. Tired of paying $50 a month for Intercom, the service that allows people to answer questions and chat with visitors to their site, Tom Critchlow decided to see if he could hack a...
View ArticleSoftware is officially the fastest growing job in New York
New data from the Center for an Urban Future show that software publishing was the fastest growing field of employment between 2011-2015, during which time it more than doubled in jobs, a 172 percent...
View ArticleDoes your baby really not know how to code yet? Wow. Here’s a class
As we progress inexorably into the digital economy, it’s becoming increasingly necessary to be literate in the world of how to order computers to do labor for you. People in analog professions are...
View ArticleCool talk alert: Brooklyn’s tech avant garde at WordHack Biennial this weekend
Poetry in code, Tinder with smells, apps for not looking at your phone. This Saturday, WordHack hosts an all-day event followed by drinks and DJs and we think it’s worth checking out. “It’s the 2-year...
View ArticleGeneral Assembly is expanding into Brooklyn
Tech school General Assembly is expanding in a big way, sister site Technical.ly DC reports: Specifically, GA aims to up its number of physical campuses from 15 to 25 by the end of the year. The focus...
View ArticleThe vision behind General Assembly’s Brooklyn expansion
General Assembly has been in the New York tech scene basically since its modern inception and now it’s planning expansion in a big way, from 15 locations to 25, including one in Kings County. The...
View ArticleBrew up a website in a night
Want to create a personal or ecommerce website but don’t want to take a weeknight off from your regimen of getting blitzed? Not to worry, Weebly and the Brooklyn Brewery are here to help you out. On...
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Hey, devs: Use this free, privacy-protecting, customizable social share button
Some think that big innovations happen as strokes of genius: the iPod came out of the brain of Steve Jobs in a lightning bolt, gravity hit Isaac Newton on the head, a hunter gatherer in the Neolithic...
View ArticleStartup vets open full-stack design shop in Brooklyn
A new product design company is starting up in Brooklyn, led by startup vets Elan Miller and Courtney Zalewski. Called Midnight, the firm looks to partner with startups looking to get products to...
View ArticleThere’s now a free tech bootcamp for Brooklyn’s unemployed and underserved
The newest resident of Bushwick’s old Pfizer building is a bootcamp that rivals General Assembly and the Flatiron School but is only available to unemployed or otherwise underserved people. With 3,000...
View ArticleWant to make the tech world better? Join ScriptEd and teach kids to code
Computer programmers are among the most privileged laborers of any profession. That has to do not with some generalized temperament they share, or the sometimes bonkers amounts of money that get thrown...
View ArticleInstall an airhorn on your laptop’s ~ key. Why not?
Interesting people doing cool things. It’s what we have here in Brooklyn. One of them, tech poet Todd Anderson has made some nice lil improvements to the internet, but none are quite as fun as his new...
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Sharpen up your dev skills and help others do the same: Brooklyn Coded
Learn about different coding languages and teach other people about what you know Tuesday night at the Brooklyn Coded meetup. “Bring your projects, your knowledge, and a willingness to share what you...
View ArticleGet $500 off Flatiron’s Online Web Developer Program by joining our email list
Wanna break into the tech world but need to develop some skills first? NYC-based Flatiron School is partnering with Technical.ly to give you $500 off its Online Web Developer Program through April...
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10 Brooklyn design firms you should know
One of Brooklyn’s main competitive advantages is the creativity of the people who live and work here. Many of the world’s best looking products and advertisements are born here, so it’s worth getting...
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