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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Containers are showing their age. I wonder what comes next.

Don't get me wrong. Containers were a good step forward. Better than JARs or binaries and much better than shipping around entire VMs like we did with Vagrant.

Containers helped with three problems (1) isolation on shared resources, (2) build replication, and (3) a single, standardized, and configurable artifact.

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After 15 months of hard work, my dad has finished this impressive model of Minas Tirith! It is 1.4 m high and entirely hand-made out of wood. One of the most time-consuming parts was manually engraving the bricks on all walls and buildings, but this was key to properly convey the huge size of the city. Everything was painted by hand, adding some wear and tear. For a behind-the-scenes look at how he built this check out this video: youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Ywlc8ojjE

A model of a tall fortress city. Buildings are arranged in different circular levels, each smaller than the one below, like a wedding cake. All levels are crowded with lots of different buildings and towers of various sizes, giving the city a busy look. On the top level there's a palace and a tall spire. There's a huge flat rocky spur slicing the city in half. The buildings and rocks are mostly white. The model rests on a table, with some tools visible in the background.
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Starting with v7.68.5-1, we've unified Molly and Molly-FOSS into a single fully FOSS app, with no proprietary dependencies.

We replaced the proprietary Play Services SDK previously used by Molly with our own open-source implementation, so FCM push notifications are now supported for all users.

If you have either Molly or Molly-FOSS installed, just update like usual. No migration needed.

Molly v7.68.5-1 is already available on GitHub and F-Droid. Accrescent coming soon.

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I'm thinking of learning React/NextJS/Typescript. Is this a good idea?
I know HTML and CSS like the back of my hand, and half know Javascript (and PHP). I've been building websites on and off for 25 years.
A year ago I started putting thought and research into creating my own CMS for the flexibility (and having a hobby project).
I started learning Laravel, mostly because 10 years ago I had wanted to learn it, though I never got around to it. Plus I figured I would be able to pick it up quite easily, already having an understanding of how PHP works.
But over this last year, I've not been able to engage with learning it, wondering if there is any point learning something (getting on a bit now) that still leads to a clunky PHP app that needs constant maintainence.
I figure instead, I could use NextJs for the frontend, and a headless flexible open source data management / cms for the backend.
I would think it would take me at least a year of learning and practice to become adequate enough. So, I'm trying to decide if this is where I should put my energy - or if there is something else I should be putting focus on, if I'm going to start properly learning something new to me.

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