Join Hacks/Hackers NYC on July 30 at 6:30 p.m. for your chance to hear some of the talks that weren't chosen for SRCCON, but which we found worthy. We're calling our evening SRCCON REJECTS.

You'll hear from developer-journalists

Rich Harris(The Guardian) on modularizing D3

Rich's edited proposal: "D3 is crazily powerful - but most news apps only need to use a tiny fraction of that power. That means were including a lot of code in our apps that never gets run. Lets say you only need to use D3s array functions in your app. You could create a custom build, but thats a whole other thing. And if you later want to use d3.scale as well (for example), you have to do it again, and again... For every project? No thanks. Enter modules. AMD modules allow you to split code up into small chunks - so that only the bits you need get loaded - and then package it all up as a small, self-contained file for deployment. This talk will show how D3s source code can be transformed into AMD modules, so you can have all of the power with none of the bloat."

Noah Veltman(WNYC) on the value of starting over

Noah's edited proposal: "Coders, especially newsroom coders, tend to accumulate a lot of technical debt. We end up with weird, brittle systems that get the job done and look back at the monsters we've created with shame. Starting over can be liberating. But if you're always at the drawing board, prematurely optimizing things, you'll never get any real work done. How do we balance these competing values? When's a good time to start over? When should a one-off that accidentally turned into a many-off become a generalized tool? How can we be better at working with what we've got without getting lazy about the big picture and making it worse?"

Sam Williams(Quartz) on status boards, chatbots and lightbulbs that tell you something useful.

Sam's edited proposal:"Information displays and status boards are becoming increasingly common in the newsroom as a way to keep everyone informed of important (and not so important) data, as it happens. And with newer chat services like Slack it's easy to hook into their notification services and deliver data to an entire team, no matter where they are located. Also, multi-colored lightbulbs. I'd like to discuss how we keep our newsroom informed, the tools that we use to do it, and would love to hear from everyone else how they do the same...."

Schedule:

6:30 p.m.: Doors, dinner + socializing

~7:00 p.m.: Talks by Rich Harris, Noah Veltman and Sam Williams

~8:15 p.m.: Hiring announcements, networking and socializing

To attend Hacks/Hackers NYC's SRCCON Rejects, RSVP today($10, payable in advance) to Hacks/Hackers NYC.

Refund policy:Cancel at least 24 hours before the event (that is, no later than 6:30 p.m. July 29) to receive a full refund. We cannot issue refunds after that.

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