Hackpact

A hackpact is where two or more people have a pact to create and document (i.e., upload for others to see) something new every day for a month. It is inspired by the live coding practice of people like nick, fredrik and scott, but you're extremely welcome to join in and do something else like photography, sculpture or a mixture of things. No universal rules but you might want to enforce your own.

Use the tag 'hackpact' when documenting your hacks, and add a link to the tag on the service you're using if it's missing:

twitter flickr blip.tv

September 2009

If you're in, add a link to the daily documentation below, along with a brief description of your plans:

• http://yaxu.org/tag/hackpact/ - improve and practice using my haskell live coding stuff
• http://bottomfeeder.ca/top/?cat=3 Mostly ChucKing, probably.
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/cormacheron/tags/hackpact/ - A photo every day for the month of September 2009 with the letters H and P somewhere in the shot.
• http://www.ablelemon.co.uk/chuckaday/ - ChucKing then something else
• http://mndl.hu/hackpact - improve my fluxus visuals, develop new plugins, modules for fluxus
• http://blog.taddr.com/hackpact/ an iphone app, gitit, and a kirtan rig
• http://www.joemariglio.com/blog/?cat=45 sc3, circuits, bread, etc...
• http://www.erase.net/weblog/action=tags/id=hackpact - an assortment of iPhone dev, sc3, sound, code + photography
• http://www.collectivology.net/doku.php/sam_freeman/hackpact - mostly Max/MSP/Jitter dev, once it gets going...
• http://www.adamjansch.co.uk/sc-a-day/ - entry-level Supercollider code
• http://emoc.org/hackpact/ - one month of random explorations through noise
• http://www.tamats.com/blog/category/devlog/ - python + opengl + interative programming
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/herberto - pictures taken with my PhoneCamera everyday

Related projects

Ok it seems that we're not the first people to think of doing something every day for a month, e.g.:

• http://www.thing-a-day.com/

hackpact has some focus on doing the same kind of thing every day though, analogous to a rigorous practice regime on a musical instrument, although some hackpacters are taking more of a thing-a-day approach...