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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I just want computer-assisted, approximate pattern recognition.

I would like to be able to say, show me in the text I've written what my tics are, what parts of this code I'm writing look similar to other code already written, where it looks like a common error, an old bug, like a frequently-used command I can alias, a habit I might want to break, a cliche to avoid.

I don't want the computer to create more almost-work repetitiion, I want it to help me see the work I've done clearly.

"look the computer can generate more code faster" the world absolutely does not need or want more code, nothing needs more code for the sake of code, we need utility, functionality and empathy, an encoded understanding of the problem being solved and the humans around it. Code is the price we pay for that encoded understanding. What you've created is an entropy spigot pointed at the proxy metric graph you’re stuck using because your management doesn't understand anything.

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If we need a term to encapsulate the phenomenon of companies rewarding female leaders dramatically less than similarly situated male ones, "the Mini Cupcake" could be a good one. Jan's new marketing campaign made the company $5 million, but they gave her the Mini Cupcake

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reminder that you don't have to listen to leftists who spend all their time making posts and screaming online about what people should be doing, but don't actually do any good for their communities

having perfect opinions: does literally nothing for anyone

trying to help people even if you aren't perfect: actually does good

unfollow people who don't practice what they preach and you might feel better

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A question for all non-Note focused developers and thinkers:

Should we ever think of a way how to embed ActivityPub objects into others (in the content)? E.g. embedding a Question object within a long Article?

@bonfire @pfefferleMatthias Pfefferle @smallcirclesjust small circles 🕊 @evanEvan Prodromou

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Interoperability of Events in the Fediverse

Hooray! It is now official: We have been granted funding by NLnet to support the realisation the vision we outlined in our last post.

Events are at the heart of social life and deserve to be treated accordingly in the Fediverse. […]

In addition, we will also investigate the Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider Specifications (FASPs) for discoverability and filtering of public events.

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A question for all non-Note focused developers and thinkers:

Should we ever think of a way how to embed ActivityPub objects into others (in the content)? E.g. embedding a Question object within a long Article?

@bonfire @pfefferleMatthias Pfefferle @smallcirclesjust small circles 🕊 @evanEvan Prodromou

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Still annoyed Mozilla plowed ahead and shut down Pocket (I’m a long time user and fan, and was involved in bringing Pocket to Mozilla way back when), but so proud of the work Nick and team have done with Folio to build a wonderful replacement so quickly. I’ve moved over without a hiccup. ❤️🙌
savewithfolio.com/blog/meet-fo

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Saw yet another article about the mysterious end of the Maya civilization. I won't link it but if you want you can find a dozen with a simple search. I just thought I'd pass on what a friend of mine (who is Mayan) had to say about that.

"Mysterious disappearance? Uhh... We're still here."

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It makes me laugh/cry that we spent decades trying to get the software industry to internalise that it takes far more effort to support & maintain systems than it does to write them in the first place, and yet seemingly every trendy development in the last 5-10 years has been about making that initial stage faster & sloppier at the expense of everything else

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A question for all non-Note focused developers and thinkers:

Should we ever think of a way how to embed ActivityPub objects into others (in the content)? E.g. embedding a Question object within a long Article?

@bonfire @pfefferleMatthias Pfefferle @smallcirclesjust small circles 🕊 @evanEvan Prodromou

Feel free to tag more people in replies!

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I just want computer-assisted, approximate pattern recognition.

I would like to be able to say, show me in the text I've written what my tics are, what parts of this code I'm writing look similar to other code already written, where it looks like a common error, an old bug, like a frequently-used command I can alias, a habit I might want to break, a cliche to avoid.

I don't want the computer to create more almost-work repetitiion, I want it to help me see the work I've done clearly.

"look the computer can generate more code faster" the world absolutely does not need or want more code, nothing needs more code for the sake of code, we need utility, functionality and empathy, an encoded understanding of the problem being solved and the humans around it. Code is the price we pay for that encoded understanding. What you've created is an entropy spigot pointed at the proxy metric graph you’re stuck using because your management doesn't understand anything.

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I just want computer-assisted, approximate pattern recognition.

I would like to be able to say, show me in the text I've written what my tics are, what parts of this code I'm writing look similar to other code already written, where it looks like a common error, an old bug, like a frequently-used command I can alias, a habit I might want to break, a cliche to avoid.

I don't want the computer to create more almost-work repetitiion, I want it to help me see the work I've done clearly.

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I just want computer-assisted, approximate pattern recognition.

I would like to be able to say, show me in the text I've written what my tics are, what parts of this code I'm writing look similar to other code already written, where it looks like a common error, an old bug, like a frequently-used command I can alias, a habit I might want to break, a cliche to avoid.

I don't want the computer to create more almost-work repetitiion, I want it to help me see the work I've done clearly.

"look the computer can generate more code faster" the world absolutely does not need or want more code, nothing needs more code for the sake of code, we need utility, functionality and empathy, an encoded understanding of the problem being solved and the humans around it. Code is the price we pay for that encoded understanding. What you've created is an entropy spigot pointed at the proxy metric graph you’re stuck using because your management doesn't understand anything.

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