Tag: the hacks

Aug 12, 2022

BONUS EPISODE Tom and Chunga Screwed Up!

Tom and Chunga learned something new about you recently. You don’t like it when they talk about fitness! They are both very, very, sorry! They’d like to make it up to you with a bonus episode. Today, Tom and Chunga are talking about something…

Aug 9, 2022

How Secure Is Your Tech Job?

Wow, what a difference a few weeks can make! Do you remember when everyone was talking about, and participating in the “great resignation”? Everyone was quitting their jobs and jumping to new opportunities that offered better benefits and more…

Aug 2, 2022

Fitness and Tech / Tech and Fitness!

Tom is still recovering from Covid. Somedays he feels great, and other days, he feels horrible. This has been really tough for him, because even though he’s “better”, he still can’t exercise like he usually does. To make things worse, the less he…

Jul 26, 2022

What Does a Chief Open Source Officer Actually Do?

Tom Hatch is still waging a valiant battle against Covid! Nevertheless, he’s excited to be doing this episode of The Hacks. Today, He and Chunga are talking about what a Chief Open Source Officer actually does. It’s a mysterious position…

Jul 19, 2022

Open Source is Dominant--and Dangerous!

Tom is back from his long, super summer vacation! How did it go? Not well, not well at all… Now that he’s back, Chunga has a bunch of questions about an article that Tom sent him. It’s about the dangerous vulnerabilities of open source…

Jul 8, 2022

Bonus Free Flow Friday -- "The Offer"!

Tom and Chunga have wanted to try a special bonus episode like this, for a while. The idea is simple. Release a bonus episode on a Friday that has nothing to do (or at least very little) with tech or the tech industry. After all, there is…

Jul 5, 2022

Untrue Tech Based Conspiracy Theories

We all love them–maybe it’s human nature. Regardless of whatever it is, that’s pushing our buttons, we can’t seem to get enough when it comes to conspiracy theories. There are a billion of them out there and a sizeable amount of them are focused on…

Jun 28, 2022

Ancient Egypt and Modern Tech, More Alike Than You Think!

Every so often, Tom comes up with an idea for The Hacks that, at first, seems pretty wacky, only to find out later that he’s kind of a genius. This is one of those episodes. Tom has made an observation that ancient Egypt and the modern-day tech…

Jun 21, 2022

Crypto Has Crashed--Yet Again.

It’s been a rough few weeks for Tom. First, it was building temperamental servers, and then–he got a cat. Anyone who knows Tom knows he’s just not an “animal” type of guy. To make things even more challenging, Crypto has crashed–yet again….