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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Vの曲聴いといて何ボロクソ言ってんすかって思われるかもしれないんだけど、音楽は音楽としてアーティストの事情や人間性と切り離して聴くタイプなので…

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Some really interesting stuff from people I follow on prompt engineering or “context engineering” as I’ve seen @simonSimon Willison start phrasing it. This is clearly a fun area to be playing around in now. But something I’ve started thinking recently…

Anything more than trivial coding with LLMs requires subscriptions, totaling $200-300, if not easily more when pairing multiple services. I get it being worth the cost for professionals or people really devoted to this, but something feels off to me. It feels like going backwards in time, where big companies create a barrier to entry for new software engineers.

Should we be worried? Am I missing something that makes this more accessible? (And I fully admit this isn’t anywhere near my area of expertise.)

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I wish we had spaces to collaborate on technical work where being a jerk was just not allowed. Like, actual proper fearless moderation.

Your reply starts with "No." on its own line? Two weeks ban. Learn to behave.

You go on a tear about another participant? One year ban. No warning.

I'm a privileged white dude with 20k followers and even I hesitate to contribute to some spaces because of the mailing list hand-to-hand combat.

Imagine how many contributions by talented folks we are wasting!

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So recently the @nodejs project posted an article seeking LGBTQIA+ stories from people who use or have contributed to Node.js, I shared the link last week.

Anyway, I decided to submit a story of how Node.js and tech in general was a lifeline for me as a teenager, in a world where I didn't quite fit in, and how I came to realise I was trans.

Many thanks to them for providing this opportunity!

nodejs.org/en/blog/community/2

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It's pretty clear that it would be a benefit to the developer community for scientists like me write more about programming "ability", bad evidence, phrenology, etc.

It would also be an absolutely enormous amount of work and a risky thing to do -- anytime you as a scientist speak about human ability it is an absolute magnet for the "IQ" obsessed folks on the internet and especially in tech -- so I'm spending a lot of time thinking. Stuff has to be worth the risk.

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It's pretty clear that it would be a benefit to the developer community for scientists like me write more about programming "ability", bad evidence, phrenology, etc.

It would also be an absolutely enormous amount of work and a risky thing to do -- anytime you as a scientist speak about human ability it is an absolute magnet for the "IQ" obsessed folks on the internet and especially in tech -- so I'm spending a lot of time thinking. Stuff has to be worth the risk.

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✈️ EuroBSDCon 2025 Travel Grant Applications Now Open!

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that travel grant applications are now open for EuroBSDCon 2025, taking place September 25–28 in Zagreb, Croatia.

If you are a FreeBSD developer or advocate who could use financial assistance to attend, we encourage you to apply.

📅 Application deadline: August 5, 2025
Learn more about eligibility, guidelines, and how to apply:
freebsdfoundation.org/blog/eur

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