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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Dear OSS community on Mastodon,

Every day I scroll through my feed and I see proud announcements like:

“First Alpha Relase of HyperTurboWidget available"

or

“Version 2.7.1 now with improved glorb handlers!”

or

“Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is out”

… and I sit there wondering if I should be excited, terrified, or calling a licensed electrician.

Don’t get me wrong, I love open source. I just have no idea what three quarters of these projects actually do. Are we talking about a web server? A file system? A middleware thingy that keeps the flux from overflowing into the space–time continuum?

So, dear OSS developers of the world: When you announce a new release, please give us (your adoring but slightly confused audience) just a tiny bit of context.

  • Tell us what your software does.
  • Tell us why this release is cool.
  • Tell us what it requires to work.

Example:

We are proud to announce Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is now avalaible. While it creates a nice wormhole to 1955, it requires an underlying gigawatt stack 1.21 to work reliably.

Because nobody wants to cheer enthusiastically for “v2.7.1” while secretly Googling “what is a glorb and why does it need handling”.

Yours truly,

Someone who wants to celebrate your achievements

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この人、かっこよすぎる。

しかし、国家斉唱しないと懲戒処分とか怖すぎる…21世紀だぞ?

所謂「いじめ」がなくならないわけだ。
こんな暴力的空間で「教育」がなされれば「悪いこと」もわからんくなるわ。

あれ?そういえば、僕の学生の頃って国家斉唱してなかった気がするな。校歌を歌うのはあったけど。

news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/2969

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If you're planning to give your child a phone for Christmas, please do not install any monitoring apps on it!

I know, you're just trying to protect them. As you should! But if we accustom children to constantly being monitored, they won't protest surveillance once they become adults.

So please, teach them to use technology responsibly, even when Big Parent isn't watching!

Thank you, and have a great time with your loved ones!
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@orbman

Iridescent vs nacreous clouds:

clouds, also known as polar stratospheric clouds, form at high altitudes in the stratosphere and are known for their vivid colors, especially during twilight. clouds, or irisation, can occur in various types of clouds at lower altitudes and display pastel colors due to the diffraction of light through small water droplets or ice crystals.


Nacreous clouds by Jonina G. Oskarsdottir, Flickr.
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