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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markdown is exactly the kind of minimalism i hate, it is more restrictive than simplifying. actually i am fine with markdown so long as it is not parsed by a markdown parser -- it makes a lot more sense as a *microsyntax* and not an actual markup language. you can encode some limited semantics with it (things like emphasis), but you cannot encode any significant structure except what might be inferred implicitly by e.g. heading levels. i would not want to author everything in markdown.

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I have a design issue I can't quite settle on, mostly because it doesn't massively matter, but I would like to figure it out properly. So I'm going to run a couple of polls here to find out how people feel about it.

Namely, when displaying notifications, both the Mastodon web interface and Toot! have two different styles they use: Either a full post like on a normal timeline, or a sort of compact version shown embedded in the notification message.

The two are shown below:

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> ロッカーの仕様上、扉の遠隔操作などを行う本体側と、決済を行う端末側で、それぞれ異なる通信回線(SIM)を使用
そんな構成になるんだ…

「スマートロッカーが開かない」──深夜の大阪駅で何が起きた? 通信障害の原因とユーザーが取るべき行動、運営元に聞いた(1/2 ページ) - ITmedia NEWS
https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2511/28/news101.html

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It’s closing in on 10 years since I bought my first @b0rkJulia Evans ‘zine.

I’ve learned so much from her work, but also from how Julia learns. And I’ve purchased many of these for my teams at work, which has paid dividends forward.

Anyway, you should totally buy multiple of these ‘zines because they’re untouchably great!

Edit: nobody was gonna tell me I misspelled like 3 words? 😂

social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/115629101

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There are about 10 billion tons of bacteria floating around in the ocean. That's about 10³⁰ bacteria — a nonillion. They're called 'bacterioplankton'. But about 40% of these bacteria are infected by viruses!

Viruses are an enormous source of new genetic information. In the old days, many molecular biologists thought that viral genes come ultimately from genes in cells. But this is not supported by the data. Most genes in viruses can't be traced to cellular ancestors! It seems that the transfer of virus genes to cells is more common than the reverse process.

Thus, ecologists are becoming ever more convinced of the importance of viruses. Some are pushing to call a virus-infected cell a 'virocell'. They argue this is the living form of the virus, while virus particles outside of cells are the equivalent of seeds or spores. Viral infection transform an ordinary cell into a virocell, whose function is no longer to produce cells but to produce more viruses.

nature.com/articles/ismej20121

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if you like my free fonts and have been looking for an excuse to support me, look no further!

bundle includes:
+ monogram: monospace pixel font w/ extensive language support
+ DUNGEON.mode: roguelike-ish textmode font & tileset

small thank you gift included with purchase!

itch.io/s/171023/support-free-

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It’s closing in on 10 years since I bought my first @b0rkJulia Evans ‘zine.

I’ve learned so much from her work, but also from how Julia learns. And I’ve purchased many of these for my teams at work, which has paid dividends forward.

Anyway, you should totally buy multiple of these ‘zines because they’re untouchably great!

Edit: nobody was gonna tell me I misspelled like 3 words? 😂

social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/115629101

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