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 see an argument that mastodon.social is needed for onboarding

so, let’s do something very scientific: which fedi instance did you start with?

(boost for bigger sample)

(mastodon forks count as mastodon)

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I think I'm finally coming around to understanding what librarians actually do, and why people I occasionally see people arguing for hiring librarians at companies.

It's actually really simple: any formally organized group of people produces and consumes a lot of information. The job of a librarian is to organize and maintain that information.

What makes the job of librarians hard to understand is because if they do their job well, it becomes almost invisible. But the absence of what librarians do can be found because:

- information is hard to locate
- information is often out of date or conflicting
- information is outright missing

To me it's the other side of digital infrastructure, complementing what ops folks do.

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What Is The Fediverse?

If you’re not familiar with the name “” – that’s okay. It is is an open society of web services that is already serving millions of people all around the world. They do this through a common language called that lets news and events flow from one site to the next. So, instead of checking in to 5 or 6 different corporate sites, you can find, follow, like, and share across many, many sources – all from your own, singluar Fediverse profile.

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🚀 Introducing our new app for Patrons: the AltStore PAL beta!

Just like our other betas, you can now try new features of AltStore PAL before the final release – including our upcoming Fediverse support.

🌐 See interactions on apps and more from across the Fediverse
💧 Updated Liquid Glass UI

Promo Image for AltStore PAL 2.3b1: "AltStore PAL Beta: Introducing Fediverse Connectivity & A New Liquid Glass UI"
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A few times now I have gotten mentions where someone was recommending my writing on LLM / AI / GPT technology to someone else who had expressed frustration with the volume of AI posting on Fedi in general, sometimes even including a screenshot of my avi in a list of filtered stuff. I've sent specific replies in a few of those cases, but let me just say this generally:

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🚀 Introducing our new app for Patrons: the AltStore PAL beta!

Just like our other betas, you can now try new features of AltStore PAL before the final release – including our upcoming Fediverse support.

🌐 See interactions on apps and more from across the Fediverse
💧 Updated Liquid Glass UI

Promo Image for AltStore PAL 2.3b1: "AltStore PAL Beta: Introducing Fediverse Connectivity & A New Liquid Glass UI"
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