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Hack This: Catching Up with Hack This

What do you want to learn?

Hack This has been started and restarted a few times in through Motherboard history. The first batch of columns was written in 2011, when I didn't really know shit about shit. Nowadays, I'm a computer science grad student, which is pretty weird.

The Hack This idea is to write tutorials on doing technical things that can be digested by pretty much anyone, about a wide range of topics and at varying depths. It's hard to get the right balance, and, left to my own devices, I err on the side of detail and length. Which is fine sometimes, but it winds up excluding whole galaxies of bite-sized one-weird-trick how-tos, which are fun and useful. They're also sort of implied by the Hack This name, right? In any case, mixing it up is a goal going forward, and I would love to hear your suggestions for topics. What do you want to know?

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Get at me at michael dot byrne at vice dot com, or @everydayelk.

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