making things and trying my best 👋 (he/him/his)
Berkeley, CA
Joined January 2018
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Sam Poder retweeted
Truly inspired to see thousands of builders creating the future at @CalHacks 12.0. We never imagined it would be getting bigger and better each year, over a decade after 1.0.
Really enjoyed our chat @zoink!
So awesome to meet so many incredible builders — and hear about their excitement for the future — at @CalHacks today!
Sam Poder retweeted
So awesome to meet so many incredible builders — and hear about their excitement for the future — at @CalHacks today!
Sam Poder retweeted
first time visiting @CalHacks irl since i departed berkeley — very insane to see what the team is doing + hear about some of the stats!!! well done 🫡
Sam Poder retweeted
I met my closest friends in high school on @hackclub Slack. Nearly a decade later, I know them irl in SF, building incredible careers. That Slack is an archive of thousands of brilliant young ppl’s early days. @SlackHQ: stop rent-seeking & support the coolest thing on the web!
Slack is threatening to shut off a big nonprofit teen coding community @hackclub (which is amazing and which I’ve helped for years) with just 3 days to migrate off. This would strand thousands of of the world’s smartest future coders. They are asking for $50k (a surprise 60x nonprofit price increase) but won’t even give assurances of more time or future service if that’s paid.
Anyone who can help? Feels like a mistaken decision on their part by someone who isn’t seeing the whole picture.
Sam Poder retweeted
Slack is threatening to shut off a big nonprofit teen coding community @hackclub (which is amazing and which I’ve helped for years) with just 3 days to migrate off. This would strand thousands of of the world’s smartest future coders. They are asking for $50k (a surprise 60x nonprofit price increase) but won’t even give assurances of more time or future service if that’s paid.
Anyone who can help? Feels like a mistaken decision on their part by someone who isn’t seeing the whole picture.
Sam Poder retweeted
at @ambrook, we’re building tools to help family-run businesses become more profitable and resilient.
excited to keep building toward that future :)
fortune.com/2025/07/01/exclu…
Sam Poder retweeted
Announcing our $26M Series A
ambrook.com/blog/company/ame…
Sam Poder retweeted
romaine calm! @ambrook x nyc @techweek_ is throwing a head of a party next wednesday in soho
don’t leaf it too late, dm me to get on the list (limited spots left)🥬
Sam Poder retweeted
UC BERKELEY’S AI HACKATHON IS HERE!
Apply at ai.hackberkeley.org!
📅 When:June 21-22, 2025
📍Where:UC Berkeley MLK Student Union
⭐ Who:All college/grad/university students
⏳Priority Deadline:5/18 11:59 PM PST
⌛️Regular Deadline:5/30 11:59 PM PST
🖥️ ai.hackberkeley.org
Sam Poder retweeted
Our second confirmed speaker for #SFRuby on February 11 is @sam_poder with "How we built a bank with Ruby on Rails". Sam will talk about building a bank for fiscally sponsored nonprofits: hcb.hackclub.com/hq sharing lessons learnt, things that ended up in the technical debt category, and some nifty tricks (eg. doing broadcasts_refreshes_to).
100 people already signed up and it is going to be pretty epic ✨. It makes sense: sometimes we can meet as a smaller and quieter group, but not when we are hosted by @github HQ, right? 😁
Friends, we just confirmed @joelhawksley as the speaker for the next #SFRuby on February 11. Staff engineer at Github and the lead developer of View Component, Joel will share "Lessons from 5 years of UI architecture at GitHub"–not a simple story to tell, and definitely an important story to learn from 💪. Huge shoutout to @github for not only hosting us, but also flying Joel from Boulder, Colorado for this event! Don't miss it, it is going to be legendary!
Sam Poder retweeted
A year ago, teenagers at @hackclub set out to build the greatest math game ever.
Today, SineRider enters public beta. Experience a mesmerizing world of puzzles infused with love and inspired by the TI-84 🔎.
Hello, world 💖 this is sinerider.com
Sam Poder retweeted
🎆 A new year brings new possibilities, new adventures, and new memories.
When we thought about how we’d like to kick off 2023, we realised we wanted to spend it at a magical hackathon surrounded by creativity.
Let us introduce you to Epoch 🧵👇
epoch.hackclub.com
Sam Poder retweeted
The @hackclub community is reclaiming the hackathon and creating a new generation of events that are focused on play, creativity, low sponsor involvement (definitely no sponsor prizes), and pushing yourself technically!
Check out one from this summer: youtu.be/PnK4gzO6S3Q
Sam Poder retweeted
My pals at @hackclub (a nonprofit for teens helping each other learn to code) made an open-source game console & game-making tool!
Here's a 1-level puzzle I made, titled, "Friendship": (Press "▶ run" to start, WASD to move, "run" to restart if stuck)
👯 editor.sprig.hackclub.com/?f…
Sam Poder retweeted
Introducing Sprig: an open-source game console & engine, by teenagers, for teenagers.
Start building a game to get your console here: sprig.hackclub.com
