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It's pronounced "Stish". It's a Polish name. But you can just call me Mike ;-)

Yes, I have taken down posts before. We have done this after receiving "cease and desists" orders. If this happens we review the C&D carefully to make sure it is justified. But I hope you'll agree this is the right thing to do.

Hackaday is trying to take back the word "Hack" which has received a negative connotation. We are NOT interested in breaking into computers to steal information. We are all about the productive use of "Hack": using something in a way in which it was not originally intended.

Spell check... yep that is something that every author and every editor uses on every posts. Despite this, errors do still sneak by. We're always trying to get better.

EDIT: I trailed off in the middle of my thought on that second paragraph... if we publish an article that is divulging information that creator of a product doesn't want public we respect their wishes. But in general Hackaday supports the free and open exchange of ideas. If it's interesting for engineers and engineering enthusiasts I want to publish it!

Caleb! Thanks for the compliment! For those that don't know, Caleb Kraft was our Senior Editor for several years and is not now the Community Editor for MAKE.

I have no idea what we're going to do for the International Day of hacking. But I have the email you sent me about it starred in my overflowing inbox. I show August 11th but I don't have a source (other than a 2012 Hackaday post for it). Do you have a link to more info?

Currently I'm trying to nail down plans for the Hackaday 10th Anniversary which will happen sometime between the beginning of September and October. But once plans are underway for that we'll figure something out for Hack Day.

EDIT: changed "not" to "now"... hehe!

For those that don't know, Sprite_TM is a legendary hacker and one of the judges for The Hackaday Prize. He recently shared some extra tidbits in a Judge Spotlight

Hackaday's acquisition by Supplyframe last July has been quite excellent. The first time I met all the "overlords" in person they asked what the Hackaday community need and project hosting is something the staff has always wanted. I mentioned that and didn't hear anything until late in December when Alek sent me a link to a working site they coded from the ground up (I'm sure they're using libraries, etc. but you know what I mean).

I love the site, especially the fact that it won't let you save a draft. This forces hackers to show off their build during the project, instead of waiting until everything is done. Love That!

So right now we're not actively developing sharks with lasercutters as we want to continue adding features (new Feed on the way soon!) as fast as we can.

There is a Hackerspace in the works which I'm pretty excited about. Have you seen this?

Proper names are in brackets to make them stand out. A lot of people use an alias instead of their real names and the brackets make it clear that weird alias' are actually names. So you're not confused by someone whose name is [Crappy Soldering Job].

At this point it's part of our identity, kind of like the dark page theme. I really like that!