Hacks
95 entries
2023
- Differentiated HomeworkCreate differentiated homework based on the needs of the student
- LLMs are going great“A crowd-sourced collection of everything you shouldn't be building with LLMs. You're… not doing that right?” Made in twenty-four hours at the inaugural AI Hackathon London.
2020
- Emily QuintonEmily's personal website, built with Gatsby
- PerfectlyA small web performance sketch: it ran Lighthouse in the cloud and measured what real visitors experienced.
- RunA Strava-powered Gatsby website for sharing a training blog
- WPStatic TestProving out WP2Static so Oak National Academy could come off WordPress — flattening the site to static assets to cut its attack and performance surface.
2019
- Graph.cool ExportA fault-tolerant export script for Graph.cool
- Makelight Router 1A two-file path-routing rule set that split makelight.com between the old Heroku app and a new Next.js front end, one URL path at a time.
2018
- Cloudinary CleanerMake a local database of your cloudinary images so you can manage deletions
- React Bulma Components NextA failing demonstration of attempting to get React Bulma Components to work with Next.js
- Redis-cached Prismic APIA demonstration of using Redis to cache the Prismic API in a Next.js and Express app
- RoboshopperAutomatically create Shopify orders in your test store using fake data
2015
- Nao JokesCollaboratively write jokes using Hackpad and have your Nao robot perform them
- SmallsThe Smalls — “where brands and filmmakers get together to make short films”: brands post a video brief, filmmakers pitch for it.
- YesterAn "old news" service based on Wikipedia entries about today's date in history
2014
- Internet Of Things, Where Are You?A WebGL visualisation of the devices and services around your device right now
- Story JarInspire your kids by making up stories for them
- Teh GuardianA comedyhack that introduced misspelling's, and typos' into theguardian.com
2013
- AttendingSimple, social event pages: free to make, and guests said they were coming with one click.
- CryptographicsCryptoquilt: quilts, prints and t-shirts that turn anything holding an image into something that also holds hidden data
- DMAURLA one-day hack that got around Twitter only allowing white-listed URLs in direct messages
- DoacourseEasy to create online courses
- East Dulwich ForumA quick hack to see if the East Dulwich Forum could be more mobile-friendly and accessible
- FlounderA tiny tool for small teams that helped them follow the people they were all most connected to to their company twitter account
- HugbaseMaking Crunchbase more useful by adding Datahug
- PogoidMore hackable Active Record models with Postgres
- Product PuntA no-code, landing page hack responding to the fact that Product Hunt had lots of people who wanted to post, but couldn't
- RumblerollKeep up to date with your favourite blogs
- ShhareShare passwords securely
- TentoringTen minute mentoring
2012
- ChircleA little charity idea — a single direct debit with a nice interface that let you give to charities really quickly and split up a fixed amount.
- Croft 6A git-powered site for a small museum
- Dare RouletteGet your mates to do stupid stuff for money
- Data NecklaceA laser-cut, laser-etched acrylic necklace that displays your tweets as a data visualisation.
- DemarcoA simple HTML5 mobile/web app to showcase the work of photographer Richard Demarco
- Fence SubscriptionsA way of supporting a record label via monthly subscriptions
- FundeerGet sponsored to give your skills to Comic Relief charities
- Is it smoggy in London?Mobile and web tool to find out about pollution levels
- KittyHow could artistic residencies be crowd-funded?
- LinetimeSimple visualisations of history
- The LockinAn experiment in reinvigorating the After Dark TV format for the digital age
- LoftifyTackling the problem of poor home insulation for older people
- Mega MilesRunners raise money by running long distances
- MongotankMongoid and Indextank sitting in a tree
- Peter GregsonA personal site for the cellist and composer, using Songkick, Lanyrd, Soundcloud, Foursquare...
- RicherlistEnrich a mailing list of emails with more data to make it more useful
- SkitUse Dropbox to create and manage a small website
- SmoggleAn urban pollution game
- SpottedA mobile nature game
- StorylandUser-contributed stories about Scotland made readable on mobile devices
- Tales you WinA platform for artists to create multimedia location-based stories
- The Last LaughPut a gift to Comic Relief in your will
- Topic TellyEducational video content for Schools from Comic Relief
- UlyssizeA James Joyce Ulysses page generator
- YeBayItemes of importe of which ye may purchase to thine heart's content
2011
- CulturegridSimple Ruby access to the CultureGrid API
- CultureGrid JSONPJSONP front end to the Culturegrid XML API
- CulturegridmobileA mobile consumer for the CultureGrid API - several thousand cultural artefacts on your phone!
- CulturescraperA tool to grab the biggest image from a web page so you can refer to it elsewhere.
- FilmFlexiconBrowse Filmflex films by their RottenTomatoes.com ratings.
- IVESRuby gem to access the IVES Venue ID API
- MetchaMobile serendipity accelerator
- Mini Pub CrawlMake it easy to arrange a multi-venue evening out with friends
- MixilistYoutube app for online-and-offline parties
- Mo' Monsters!A random monster generator, the precursor to the company More Monsters
- New HomelyA quick mashup based on scraping Pinterest to make a small single-page web-based mood board.
- Phenomenal PeopleA quick experiment at a content site for Women of the World festival
- Pretty-Textmate-Ruby-putsOutputs nicely formatted puts statements for Ruby developers using Textmate
- ScreenedA demonstrator mapping where films of different kinds are shown around the UK, built on the BFI's archived film screening data.
- StefotoA neat little site for a wedding photographer — open source, usable by any photographer quite easily.
- Twitter BackupDownload all your tweets as a JSON file
- WranglA simple tool that visualised two sides of an argument.
2010
- CaboodleA set of mashups for common services for Sinatra, so you could easily pull together bits from elsewhere on the web to make a website.
- ConversativesComedy hack using a proxy to swap words for their opposite on the Conservatives.com website
- DIY-CouncilAn easy to use alternative way of using the web for local authorities in the UK
- Email Your CandidatesSend an email to the people standing for office, to ask them all the same question
- GeoPilsenBritish Council hack with the people of Plzn
- GeopinionA little app that let you gather people's opinions about places, particularly for planning.
- Google-Cache-Sitemap-DownloaderUse your Google sitemap XML file to download a copy of your website from the Google Cache
- Heroku_Memcached_Hello_WorldA quick test: Server Marked as Dead on Heroku
- LaserBlazerWrite words in the air using your mobile
- Many-headedA forked Ruby gem, never described.
- MicrojsonpGet all the microformats from a URL as JSONP
- PatSimple access to UK postcode geo and administrative data
- Sinmetricskontagent, mixpanel, etc wrappers for sinatra
- SleepyMemcached API calls using Weary
- SpiroArduino spirograph drawings
- Website-RedirectRedirects all GET requests from www.example.com to example.com (or similar) using Sinatra
- WPRipperIf your wordpress site died, scrape it back from the Google Cache using a sitemap
2009
- BCCDIYA community-generated version of the Birmingham City Council website, developed in two weeks flat using Ruby on Rails, tea and biscuits.
- Cached ResourceTransparently caches ActiveResource data in a memcached instance by extending cache_fu
- DebillitatedA quick mashup to illustrate the progress of the Digital Economy Bill through the process of 'washup' in parliament.
- Ruby GEOAPIRuby interface to GeoAPI
- TwadioA twitter-based silent radio station — a virtual DJ tweets the name of an 'ear-worm' track and you play it in your head.
2008
- TweetletA pregnancy twitter service that would direct-message you child development information in the first person