Quarterly Community Event

HackGreenville Nights

A gathering of Greenville's tech, hacker, tinkerer, maker, and DIY community. Great food, short talks, and good people.

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Talks are typically 5, 10, or 15 minutes on tech or tech-adjacent topics that don't fit the format of existing local meetups or conferences.

Thinking about starting a new group? Pitch the topic here and get a feel for the level of interest.

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Past Events

May 2026

“Rice to Meet You ”

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Joey Loman — Origin Stories Series: Synergy Mill

Jason Morhardt — Hold My Beer While I Do This

Ben Acord, Eric Anderson, Robert Roskam — Privacy Tips and Trick

Feb 2026

“Hackin' Ball G - An Asian A-fare”

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Jeremy Wight — Why a Non Profit Entity Type Could Be Your Super Power for Tech Social Impact

Zach Hall — TV Station in a Box: Introducing Television Simulator Studio

Heather Bowes — Setting Up an SD-WAN Mesh Network with Starlink & T-Mobile During Hurricane Helene

Phil Yanov — Origin Stories Series: The Early Days

Oct 2025

“Medi-verse Mediterranean & Greek”

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Jās Eckard — Quantum Computing Glossary

Nate Argaw — GVL Game Devs & The Journey for Balanc3d - A 3D Mobile Browser Game

Jeremy Nicoll — Stupid Simple Kubernetes with Terraform

Dave Brothers — Origin Stories Series: How the HackGreenville Slack Came to Be

June 2025

“Full-stack Nachos”

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Jen Bauer — Level Up Your Legacy

Bogdan Kharchenko — HackGreenville Labs

Violet Kester — Fluid Design and Musical Harmony: A simple method for implementing truly responsive web applications

AMA w/ Luke Kapustka, Nick Mansfield, JT Webb — We're Penetration Testers, Ask us Anything

Feb 2025

“Souperman IV: Quest for Peas”

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David He — Beyond Coding: How Windsurf AI is Making Software Development Accessible to Everyone

Paul Sullivan — The Elixir Ecosystem

Zach Hall — Simulating Analog Television on the Web

Andrew Lechowicz — Detecting Flaky Tests: Increasing Trust in Your Test

Oct 2024

“Starch Trek”

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Caleb McQuaid — Encore! Encore!

Barry Jones — Story Points are Pointless, Measure Queues

Heather Bowes — Running a House Off an Electric Car

Brian Kennedy — Project-based IaC, You're Doing IaC Wrong | Part 2 - Tools and Quality

May 2024

“Subs and Sliders”

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Andrew Thompson — How Not to Give a Talk

James Shockley — Scratch, Dent, and Data: Engineering A Used Appliance Information Advantage Out Of Necessity

Joel Griffith — Random Numbers from Cosmic Rays (Step 1)

Pete Dunlap — Decentralized Community Building Via Twilio

Feb 2024

“Chili Bar”

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Bogdan Kharchenko — Data Transfer Objects with PHP, as used by HackGreenville.com

Brian Kennedy — You're Doing IaC Wrong

Christina Roberts — Volunteer Opportunities w/ Agile Learning Institute

Gavin Coyle — Addressing Workforce Planning Challenges Through Mentorship

Jās Eckard — Intro to UCLUG and BASH's History Feature

Jim Ciallella — Lean Livin': How a Local Internet Provider Paid Me $6240 / hr

Pamela Wood Browne — Intro to Code With The Carolinas and Current Projects

Paul — Censorship-resistant P2P Messaging via Briar and the Local-first Software Movement

Oct 2023

“Taco Bar”

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Joey Loman — Quick Intro to Synergy Mill Project Opportunities

Pete Broderick — System Level Thinking

Olivia Sculley — Quick Intro to HG Labs Project Opportunities

Robert Roskam — How to Sanely Test Complex Systems

Ryan Lanciaux — Cooking Up Better Applications with Inspiration from the Culinary World

Zach Robichaud — Development Tooling with Laravel

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