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.

내가 자주 접하는 클러스터들 바깥 사람들의 글을 본다는 점에서 스레드는 유용하지만, 웹 인터페이스가 여엉 좋지가 않다. 메타가 기술이 없을리는 없고 의도적인 열화, 앱 사용으로의 유도인데 그 의도가 빤하단 말이지...

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I did something this year that I would like to recommend to everyone for the new year. Call it a Fedi Resolution if you like.

Find someone whose work you like and become their champion. Not in a creepy way, but make a point of boosting them every time they post (or post about) their work. Recommend it to people you think would like it.

The Fediverse works if it works for the people who use it. If you see someone who does something you like, lend your voice to help make it work for them.

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Slop drives me crazy and it feels like 95+% of bug reports, but man, AI code analysis is getting really good. There are users out there reporting bugs that don't know ANYTHING about our stack, but are great AI drivers and producing some high quality issue reports.

This person (linked below) was experiencing Ghostty crashes and took it upon themselves to use AI to write a python script that can decode our crash files, match them up with our dsym files, and analyze the codebase for attempting to find the root cause, and extracted that into an Agent Skill.

They then came into Discord, warned us they don't know Zig at all, don't know macOS dev at all, don't know terminals at all, and that they used AI, but that they thought critically about the issues and believed they were real and asked if we'd accept them. I took a look at one, was impressed, and said send them all.

This fixed 4 real crashing cases that I was able to manually verify and write a fix for from someone who -- on paper -- had no fucking clue what they were talking about. And yet, they drove an AI with expert skill.

I want to call out that in addition to driving AI with expert skill, they navigated the terrain with expert skill as well. They didn't just toss slop up on our repo. They came to Discord as a human, reached out as a human, and talked to other humans about what they've done. They were careful and thoughtful about the process.

People like this give me hope for what is possible. But it really, really depends on high quality people like this. Most today -- to continue the analogy -- are unfortunately driving like a teenager who has only driven toy go-karts.

Examples: github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty

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eine super coole Idee, die ich zufällig in den Lightning Talks gesehen habe: eine Initiative um eine Top-Level Domain zu beantragen, die Infrastruktur für queere Projekte bereitstellen und absichern soll. Das ganze wäre für die Endung .meow, was einfach großartig ist!
der Kickstarter braucht noch einiges an Geld. Vielleicht will wer von euch Mittelfristig eine .meow-Domain haben? wäre doch flauschig!
kickstarter.com/projects/dotme

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brains are so weird. i'm writing a pretty complex bit of code right now and i can see it's something i'm gonna need to really stop and think through before typing anything. my first thought was "i should have a shower"... because i often do my best complex structural design thinking in the shower.

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It's official! I'll be moving to Canada next month! Still Chrome DevRel, just up in The Great White North. If you've got recommendations for the greater Toronto area, lmk!

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"AI" plague

Just unsubscribed from the Humble Bundle bundle announcements email list after the third incident of getting "AI coding" book offers. I have been a customer of theirs since like… basically the beginning?

After the second incident I sent them an email saying I'd unsubscribe if it happened a third time. They sent me an email thanking me for my feedback and saying they'd pass it on to the team. Two weeks later they do it again.

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