What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, now has a "TOTAL CHAOS" preset for when you're really feeling like mixing up your timeline in addition to a way to weight toots based on the author's follower count, highlighting of hashtags based on how much you use or interact with them, and a bunch of other fund stuff.

* Try It: michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fe
* Code: github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/f
* Video of FediAlgo in action: universeodon.com/@cryptadamist

screenshot of fedialgo with TOTAL CHAOS preset chosen
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Hey, folks who understand alt text and limited vision accessibility:

I have need to write alt text for the diagram below. The alt text needs to be comprehensible to somebody who is encountering this kind of diagram for the ••very first time••. I could describe the images using the relevant jargon, but that would only serve people who already know the thing this activity is teaching them!

Any suggestions for how I could write good alt text for something like this? Is it possible? (The horizontal black bars are minus signs, i.e. subtraction. This is clear from context in the text, but probably not clear in the image.)

PLEASE NOTE: I am looking for people with ••relevant accessibility expertise••, not just random best shots from people who (like me) don’t really know much about this kind of problem.

A diagram showing three arithmetic expressions as tree, which I am struggling to describe in this alt text.
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USA picks of the day:

➡️ @KNPRNevada Public Radio - Nevada Public Radio, affiliate of NPR

➡️ @defcon - Annual hacker conference in Las Vegas (hacking in the tech nerd sense, not criminals)

➡️ @thenevadaindependent.com🦜 The Nevada Independent - News feed of The Nevada Independent newspaper

➡️ @www.8newsnow.com🦜 KLAS - News feed from KLAS Channel 8 in Las Vegas

➡️ @westquakeWestern Quakes Bot - Earthquakes in Nevada & California, info from Caltech

🧵 1/4

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So I made a tiny "feed server" for use with bluesky, to syndicate my "listening to" posts (yes I KNOW I could be using hashtags, I will not be using hashtags)

It occurred to me it would be real easy to add an RSS output. But then it occurred to me… wait, how would I even *advertise* an RSS outlet for it? The feed pages are not under my control; the feed responses are JSON, not XML, so no link rel

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25 years after releasing their first videogame, Wu-Tang Clan returns with Rise of the Deceiver.

"We wanted to create something where it was built from the ground up. It was by the culture, for the culture, and actually representing what [Wu-Tang Clan] put out there through the years."

youtube.com/watch?v=826WlpkBZO

theverge.com/games/681702/wu-t

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Internet Archive is looking for engineering managers with a rare set of experiences, and we could use your help.

Do you know someone with extensive experience using PHP as a systems language? Someone who has gardened a petabyte-scale system under high load? Is this person a player/coach engineering manager who enjoys helping other people succeed?

If you do know someone like this, or someone close, I would love to talk to them.

Apply at this link and drop me a line:
workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/de

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I started my career in tech as a technical writer, but that was only because I wanted to become a webmaster (which I achieved after a year). Living the web dream in the 90s…

“I'm a fucking webmaster
Back in 1993, you weren't a designer, developer, copywriter or in devops. You were a fucking webmaster, and your name was at the bottom of every page.”
justinjackson.ca/webmaster/

Actually my first job was “Information Developer” (aka tech writer) and after a year I became a “Web Knowledge Coordinator” (aka webmaster). But I always joke that if I was living in the US and not New Zealand, my webmaster role would’ve been named “VP of Website Operations” (when I eventually visited Silicon Valley for the first time, everyone in their mid-20s seemed to be a VP of something!).

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