How We Hacked “Hack Week”

And why Medium was forced to donate free pizza to every office in SF…


Truth be told, we never set out to “hack” anything…

It wasn’t even “us” who started it—not officially.

Nick Fisher ‏@Nick
Working a little “@earlycluesinto @Mediums “HACK” week. pic.twitter.com/3S8cHoPQun
The “screen cap” that you could say “started it all”

From there, they say the rest is “history.”

But it isn’t. Unless you’re a “Timehunter.”

Because it would take a Timehunter (or maybe a @Timescanner) to track down and re-create the “whole story as it unfolded” on Twister.

https://twitter.com/earlyclues/status/489549260648882176

The above results are a product of the Twister URL you see in the image caption above. If you copy and paste or click through, you’ll see that Meldium’s intra-frace has automatically pulled a not-totally-correct bit of information out of branespace, or at least not the one “we wanted” for “demonstration purposes” this “hack week.”

Artist’s re-creation of the actual event…

And of course, our CTO immediately jetted in to be “on site” to help our “big client” for their proud “product roll-out” and “ribbon cutting ceremony.”

Which should equal:

https://twitter.com/deprecatedAPI/status/489557546626080769

But which still tries to access Legacy Reality to access a “hierarchy” when it should be trying to bridge another holarchy over its local mesh-points… YAWN! 21st century much?

While our CTO tinkered “on-site”, we began to experience a local inspansion of branespaces, and a burgeoning “infinite regress”…

Wait, are we really “HERE TO ASSIST” or not?

Which always makes us as a company “hungry” for change and continual product improvement and “customer service,” which is why we “ordered free pizzas” up using Synconjury and CheirOS on the ToL2.0 Module:

What can we say? Our technology “just works”!

http://twitter.com/earlyclues/status/489582605969281026

An OpenQNL pizza re-assigned out of the Liminality with the “toppings of your choice”

http://twitter.com/sagudo/status/489583993403109376

This story would be so much easier to tell if OpenQNL weren’t so buggy on OS X Mavericks, we know. It’s mostly our fault... (We’re also, incidentally, working to remove the “cardboard taste” from our Liminal Pizza Delivery Service.)

Wait, was that code sequence supposed to be down-arrow down-arrow square dollar sign or square ampersand? Dammit, I want the “old timey” phone numbers back!

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