Well hello there!

The official launch of Alumni Society Blog

Hack Club Alumni Society @alumni.dino.icu

Dec 29, 2025 · 5 min read

ritten and edited by Andrei Jiroh Halili (@andreijiroh.dev), the Alumni Society lead maintainer

Welcome to the Alumni Society Blog, hosted on Leaflet! We'll be planning to use this space to publish musings and other writings from the alums in the Hack Club community alongside any updates on projects for the alumni community. Follow us on Bluesky (it's @alumni.hackclub.community@bsky.brid.gy for our fediverse friends while Nest is taking the needed break for now, courtersy of Bridgy Fed) to never miss future blog post drops and then some.

While I am the lead maintainer for the society's social media presence on both the fediverse and ATmosphere (with Nostr coming soon through the Openvibe app for seamless cross-posting), GitHub/Nest Forgejo namespace and the a upcoming refreshed alums directory, anyone can contribute towards running and maintaining the alumni community. For example, you can write for the Alumni Society here (see below) and adding yourself to the alums directory right in the Hack Club Slack (check pins at the private #alums channel for details).

If you want to write something from scratch or just cross-post your monthly status update for Hack Club Alumni Society on Leaflet, we're all ears!

The only requirement is that you must complete the application flow. Once you're in, go ahead and let us know in the meta issue tracker at GitLab.com or GitHub (or just ping @alumni-society-maintainers at the #alums or #alumni Slack channel).

These are not necessarily hard rules, but it's at the discretion of the Alumni Society's maintainers and the Fire Department team (in some cases when they intervene) on what to publish here. We may update them from time-to-time as we follow community feedback and improve our editorial processes.

Style guide

We don't have any strict guidelines on how to write here, but generally speaking follow the Hack Club's brand guidelines (including HCB if you use it for your projects) and we use American English with some adjustments (e.g. use UTC timezone for dates and time, 24-hour format, metric system for measurements).

Remember that your draft will be reviewed against the Hack Club's code of conduct, alongside the usual human reviews against blatant plagiarism, undisclosed generative AI usage, and routine grammatical checks.

In scope vs out of scope

We generally accept the following:

syndication of your status updates and project updates (whether they are shipped during a YSWS or in-person event hosted by Hack Club HQ or community member)
musings about the Hack Club community and life after being an alum

There are some which we cannot entertain at the moment due to reasons like CoC-breaking content, topics that may cause dumpsterfires in the meta threads, and toxicity, among others. Here are some examples:

any hate mail/personal attack against anyone (including former Hack Clubbers and those who are banned for numerous reasons)
anything unrelated to Hack Club (exceptions may apply on a case-by-case basis if you're working at an organization hosted on HCB and your draft involves your work at these orgs)

We are still tweaking the scope of the posts as we go through submissions and drafts and may adjust them from time to time.

Have questions? (or how to submit one)

Just reach out to the Society Maintainers (see @alumni-society-maintainers user group in the Slack) or file a issue in the meta issue tracker (linked above). We'll be working on the submission flow in early 2026, so come back here for updates.

Last updated: December 30, 2025 by @andreijiroh.dev

There will be more ways to contribute soon once the Alumni Society website is formally launched at the recently-launched hackclub.community domain for community projects (thanks Alex Park!), among behind-the-scenes operations work. So, keep your eyes peeled here and on socials soon.

Until then, happy new year for everyone! (It's on the drafts for quite some time, but after the finals major exam on college and some projects I am working on lately, I am officially shipping this blog finally.)

About the Author: Andrei Jiroh Halili (he/they, neurodivergent/disabled, specifically Autistic) joined Hack Club in July 2024 before the start of classes in his last year at senior high school during Arcade (the 2024 edition of its Summer of Making general YSWS program), initially for its fiscal sponsorship program and platform, HCB. He's graduated last April 2025 in the Computer Systems Servicing NC II strand under the Technical-Vocational-Livelihood track from Assemblywoman Felicita G. Berdnardino Memorial Trade School in Marilao, Bulacan, Philippines and is currently taking Bachelor of Science in Information Technology at STI College Meycauayan. Outside of being the Alumni Society's lead maintainer, he's also known for running the Hack Club Leeks Bot on the leeks channel and the founder and lead maintainer of Recap Time Squad open-source organization and Community Lorebooks subdomain service and documentation hub of the former.

About the Hack Club Alumni Society: We're an loose association of Hack Clubbers graduated from high school and/or aged out of Hack Club's YSWS programs and events and run by alums for the alumni community (in short, not HQ-affliated project). Initially started as a Slack channel by Jacob Haap, a fellow alum, on March 2022 (with the creation of the private channel for alums by Victor Truong, another alum, days later), Andrei Jiroh Halili took the task of maintaining the alum directory in late August 2025 and started cooking for the alumni community by building its online prescence in the open social web.

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