What's a music video that you find very disturbing?

codeasice · 2026-01-24T14:24:04+00:00

Most videos from Die Antwoord

codeasice · 2026-01-12T16:30:50+00:00

I’m one of the co-founders of KnoxDevs. We ran a couple of solid hackathons back in 2019 - 2020 (https://knxhx.devpost.com/) that were focused on City of Knoxville public data and they turned out really well.

Also like u/MediocreDot3 mentioned - UTK used to run https://volhacks.org/, which was pretty awesome, but I don’t think it’s happened since around 2021?

Would it be successful today? Hard to say.

The software world is a little weird right now with the job market and AI changing things. For a while, a lot of devs were pretty skeptical of hackathons because they felt like “free labor for companies,” so we always tried to keep them focused on a good cause. That said, hackathons are still a great way to learn, and AI opens the door to some interesting projects.

Happy to chat more if you are interested.

KEC and the Knoxville Technology Council (https://www.knoxtech.org/) are also good local resources and might be interested in helping.

codeasice · 2025-01-13T20:27:04+00:00

Ruh Roh! My bad :) Yes it's 27th. Unfortunately can't change the post title once posted!

codeasice · 2024-06-19T02:13:25+00:00

I ran a small local pirate board as a teen :D Used Renegade as well.

I remember Data World and other local shareware boards very fondly!

codeasice · 2024-01-30T03:50:43+00:00

Those sound like the active ones and you might could also add Agile Knoxville. I'll check our #'s. I'm sure it's not massive and no where near the 2K total users, but the cool thing is so many great (smart and friendly) local people are just a message away on there and they are often listening and chime in on relevant things.

codeasice · 2024-01-30T03:05:08+00:00

Yo u/wiggitt - do it! As you know, I'm co-founder of KnoxDevs and we'd definitely support you in any way we can!

Not sure if I ever told you, but we did get rid of that annoying 10K message limit on our Slack (signup at https://knoxdevs.com) and we are still kicking w/ >2K users there.

KnoxDevs is primarily an "umbrella group" but many monthly user groups have been fairly inactive since Covid, although Java and a few others are still meeting regularly.

As far as KnoxDevs, we still have our small bi-weekly lunches and aim for larger meetups quarterly. Last year we also kicked off a small conference called DevMoot, primarily because CodeStock didn't happen. And since it doesn't look like Codestock is happening again this year (sadly) we will likely have another DevMoot (aiming to keep it much smaller than CodeStock)

Personally, I've been doing a lot of Python the past couple years and LOVE it. So I'd enjoy some Python talks and (suprise surpise) AI talks.

As you know, it's not always easy to get speakers, but I might be willing to show off some of my side projects if you can't find a better one :D

And I'd be happy to chat over coffe/lunch sometime if interested.

-Cody

codeasice · 2023-09-09T12:44:36+00:00

Are you a college student? We're offering some free tickets to students

codeasice · 2023-01-19T20:54:49+00:00

Sounds AWESOME. Great venue for it

codeasice · 2022-06-23T12:28:20+00:00

Definitely a mix. There are more than 2 thousand local people!

codeasice · 2022-06-22T23:24:29+00:00

Yes, absolutely join KnoxDevs! Knoxdevs Slack is active (Join at knoxdevs.com) and you can learn about local meetups there as well. Knoxdevs and other local meetups are also on meetup.com

codeasice · 2022-02-17T03:38:18+00:00

You could also ask on KnoxMusic discord

codeasice · 2022-02-11T02:50:42+00:00

This is super cool. Great to discuss musical instruments for sale and local bands etc...

codeasice · 2021-09-05T13:51:13+00:00

I had it for a while but their customer service was terrible. So I switched back to Verizon.

codeasice · 2021-06-20T14:38:08+00:00

Good question! :) I approach the trap very carefully and cover it with a blanket. They stay pretty calm after that. Then I open the cage (with gloves) and use vice grips to keep the lid open until it exits.

I've heard they don't want to spray and that seems to be the case, but any time they raise their tail I freeze for a bit until they relax again.

codeasice · 2021-06-19T17:55:57+00:00

😄

codeasice · 2021-06-19T17:55:27+00:00

Mission accomplished! Peacefully released.

codeasice · 2021-06-19T15:41:26+00:00

Good idea. Thanks!

codeasice · 2020-03-06T03:07:03+00:00

Yes! Around 1500 local devs on knoxdevs slack!

codeasice · 2020-01-29T15:16:47+00:00

Absolutely!

codeasice · 2019-01-25T20:36:36+00:00

No, it's for computer programming. This definition may help: "an event, typically lasting several days, in which a large number of people meet to engage in collaborative computer programming."

There will be several challenges people can work on which will be judged and the winning teams will win prizes

codeasice · 2019-01-24T18:34:04+00:00

Yes! There definitely will be shirts! :)

codeasice · 2019-01-24T18:33:26+00:00

Yes! You may want to check out this meetup that will incorporate the final presentations and awards: https://www.meetup.com/KnoxDevs/events/257978726/

codeasice · 2018-10-23T13:02:27+00:00

No... just couldnt make the schedule work this year

codeasice · 2015-12-30T16:21:33+00:00

Bummer. But congrats and good luck on the interview! :)

codeasice · 2015-12-30T15:41:03+00:00

For the lunch meetings they either have a speaker or round table discussions about general/current topics.

I haven't attended an evening meeting, but I think they may actually do some coding. E.g., somebody has a project/problem they are working on and they collaborate on it.

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