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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„Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?“

Interesting article but I disagree with the premise:
The protocol does not demand to display all messages.
Actually, it doesn’t make any sense even.

When I use , I do that to see pictures only. That’s the whole point.
If I want to see more, I have to use a more generic platform, like .

ploum.net/2025-12-04-pixelfed-

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When social networks went mainstream in 2003, they were initially positioned as dating apps — both Friendster and its copycat MySpace had online dating vibes (later that year, Mark Zuckerberg would use the "hot or not" format in Facemash...but that's another, creepier, story!). Here's a look back at MySpace vs. Friendster in 2003, and why the web's 'view source' philosophy was key to MySpace winning. cybercultural.com/p/myspace-20

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Day 4 of Advent of Compiler Optimisations!

Multiply by 2, 3, 4, 16, 25—which ones use the actual multiply instruction? Spoiler: fewer than you think! The compiler has a bag of tricks for avoiding multiplication, using shifts, adds, and that versatile LEA instruction. But when you outsmart it with your own shift-and-add... it un-optimises you right back!

Read more: xania.org/202512/04-multiplyin
Watch: youtu.be/1X88od0miHs

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I will never understand the urge the use a library designed to provide reactive DOM updates as a server framework. Here I am, wasting time parametrising my queries while some are shipping unprotected “eval()” in what looks like a very abstracted gRPC service.

github.com/vercel/next.js/secu

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Hey! I’m CEO of a company that has just raised $10 billion for an app that takes the hard work out of enjoying music. Did you know, some people waste hours each day listening to “tunes”. Our AI will listen to it for you and summarise it in a 15 second scream leaving you more time to focus on what's really important in life: adding value.

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„Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?“

Interesting article but I disagree with the premise:
The protocol does not demand to display all messages.
Actually, it doesn’t make any sense even.

When I use , I do that to see pictures only. That’s the whole point.
If I want to see more, I have to use a more generic platform, like .

ploum.net/2025-12-04-pixelfed-

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Features from <select> you should know:
✅ disabled — prevent user interaction
✅ multiple — allow multi-select
✅ size — show more than one option at a time
✅ <optgroup> — group related options

And there are more 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do

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