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Strategic Vibe Coding with Claude Code
In this session, we’re exploring the new frontier of development: Strategic Vibe Coding which will be hosted by Oseriemen Ivbaze, a software engineer and expert in agentic workflows.
The Blackathon Virtual Hackathon
Over $5,000 in cash and prizes. Blackathon is a virtual hackathon created to bring together builders, technologists, creatives, and emerging innovators for a day of collaboration, problem solving, and community. Hosted by BlackWPT in partnership with NSBE Bay Area Professionals, Black Women in Tech, /dev/color and Algorythm Org, the event is designed to create space for bold ideas, practical solutions and new connections across the tech ecosystem.
Interview Info Session Series
Last year, we connected Algorythm members with hiring teams at Amazon, Meta, Airbnb, and Ancestry. This is your chance to get visibility and learn from the best in the industry. In 2026 we're hosting Interview Info Sessions that are designed to help introduce you to hiring teams, sharpen your skills, understand exactly what recruiters are looking for, and calm those pre-interview jitters. Register for this event to sign up for the info sessions.
Study Programs
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“Algorythm connected me with Amazon. The study programs helped me stay grounded during my interview prep cycle which helped me land an offer. I later led sessions in the System Design study program to help others.”
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“I joined Algorythm in 2021 while struggling to break into FAANG. They showed me how technical hiring actually works and pointed me to resources like Cracking the Coding Interview, AlgoExpert and supported me with live online study programs. I strengthened my fundamentals and landed a role at AWS.”
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Building A Game Boy Color Emulator in Rust
Feb 3·Aza Walker
An emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system to behave like another computer system; it’s a computer inside a computer.
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How ChatGPT Understands What You Mean
Feb 11·Ayda Sultan
Attention allows a model to focus directly on previous tokens and selectively pull important information instead of compressing all past information into a single fixed-size vector.
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Building a Distributed Database From Scratch With Rust
Mar 19·Youdahe Asfaw
Many engineers use databases every day. Few ever look inside one. I wanted to change that for myself, so I built youdaheDB a distributed key-value database engine.
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