This weekend, around 130 engineers and other code-happy people holed themselves up in central Stockholm for yet another two-day hackathon. Having lost count of how many similar events I’d seen on my LinkedIn feed, I gathered it was about time I went to one.

Opinion
September 16, 2025
Are hackathons more than casual meetups for code-happy 20-somethings?
Sifted's Europe editor Mimi Billing decided to check one out
3 min read
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