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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A new week has begun, and 2025 is getting closer to its end. The question we should all ask ourselves is this: what have we done, and what can we do, to make the Fediverse a better place?

The Fediverse is for everyone. The Fediverse belongs to everyone. We should not wait for someone else to do something. We can start ourselves.

- Follow people who post content that interests you. You do not always have to agree. Constructive disagreement helps us grow.

- Always remain respectful and civil. This is what can make the difference between the Fediverse and social platforms that profit from anger. Let us make it a place we want to go, not a place we feel forced to go just to prove someone wrong.

- Make it a better place for yourself. Our timelines are exactly what we choose them to be. This takes a bit more effort, but the result will be far more satisfying.

- Help administrators identify problems. Pointless criticism is useless. Doing your part, on the other hand, is priceless.

- Boost what you believe is worth boosting. That is how things spread. If quote posts are available, explain why you shared something. You can also share content you disagree with, if you think it may be interesting for the people who follow you.

- Do not approach people coming from other platforms with closure or arrogance. It takes time to understand and adapt. Acting like schoolteachers helps no one.

- The Fediverse belongs to everyone, therefore it belongs to no one. If you run your own personal instance, that is your kingdom, but you could be defederated by everyone and end up alone. If that is your goal, fine. Otherwise, remember that federation is, at the same time, an honor, a responsibility, and a privilege.

- Have fun. Grow. Live. The Fediverse is an extension of your life.

If you have questions, ask. You will find many people who will be more than happy to answer.

And to you, who are reading this, thank you for being here.

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omasanori強く周知情報です。

「毎年恒例の〈書物復権〉共同復刊、2026 年は第30 回を数えます。復刊の候補にあがったのは118 点119 冊と、充実したリストをそろえることができした。参加各社がそれぞれの出版の歴史のなかで、この後も読者に届けたいと考えている各分野の基本書です。ぜひ、ご覧のうえリクエストいただき、1 点でも多くの復刊の実現にご協力ください。応募期間は2026 年2 月28 日まで、ぜひ皆さまから多数のリクエストをいただけますようお願いします。また今回も、通常では復刊が難しい少数の要望にも応えるべく、個別の注文に対応するオン・デマンド版での復刊も実施いたします。」

【書物復権2026】10社共同復刊 第30回 ― リクエストで名著がよみがえる!応募締切:2026年2月28日 | 紀伊國屋書店 - 本の「今」に会いに行こう
store.kinokuniya.co.jp/event/fukken2026/

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Help! I've talked someone into being curious about (fragment) shader-ing ala shadertoy, but I can't find a decent node-based GUI for shader editing that has decent ergonomics but is also close enough to GLSL structurally to allow shadertoy-like mathy exploration.

So far everything I've seen fails in a significant way on either of these:
- Blender: separate "Math" and "Vector Math" nodes. "Math" node with drop-down instead of granular primitives
- Godot: "Function" node with drop-down instead of granular primitives
- Unity: uh ... i just don't want to do this to them i think
- cables.gl: no vector types at all??? setup a bit elaborate
- victhorlopez.github.io/editor/ closest so far; polymorphic functions but doesn't auto-cast values; UX a bit underdone

...surely there would be a web tool for this given the popularity of SDFs etc???

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Folks, I rarely block people on here, but this morning I find someone in my mentions that actually upsets me with their strange vitriol. Like I would not feel safe in this person’s physical presence. A bunch of you followed them before I blocked them. I don’t follow police but just so you know.

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Question for the maybe five other people in the world who can answer this kind of question about platform accessibility APIs: Is it worth it to include an alpha channel in a color struct for a cross-platform accessibility API? Does any platform accessibility API actually support this, and does any AT actually do something useful with it?

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