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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Dorell @Dorell@mastodon.scot
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As a newbie, I'm continuing with the .
The bosses... Moose and Kacang (pronounced KAH-chang not Ka-CHANG).
They came to stay temporarily when my daughter (their "mum") couldn't find accommodation that would permit animals. That was about 4 years ago now, and for one reason or another, they are now permanent, and very welcome, residents in our home.
Moo is the black & white fluffy one and likes reading, and Kacang is the white & black short-hair, and enjoys houseplants.

Photographic side-on portrait of our fluffy tuxedo cat, Moose. As a tuxedo, she is black almost all over, but has a white chest, and a partially white face. She is pictured gazing into space while sitting in front of the piles of books on our very overcrowded bookcase.Photograph of our short-hair cat, Kacang. From this angle she looks almost completely white, showing just small touches of black on her head around her ears, on her back, and leg. Her eyes are startlingly beautiful against her white hair, almost as if she is wearing black eyeliner. She's sitting on a table in front of a small yucca plant. The leaves of the plant look like they are sprouting out of the top of the cat's head. The yellow wall to the side is so brightly sunlit that it looks orange where Kacang and the yucca cast distinct shadows.
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Swift Craft @swiftcraft@hachyderm.io
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SwiftCraft 2026 Call for Speakers is NOW OPEN!

We're looking for talks on the *craft* of Swift development - from iOS to server-side, architecture to testing, and everything in between.

Submit by: Jan 30, 2026 (midnight GMT)
Conference: May 18-20, 2026 in Folkestone, UK
Building a bridge for UK & European Swift developers

✨ What we offer:
- Travel & accommodation covered
- Conference dinner ticket
- Anonymous review process
- Support for first-time speakers

Don't wait - submit early! 👉 swiftcraft.uk/callforspeakers

Swift Craft : Swift Craft 2026 Call for Speakers

swiftcraft.uk

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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North Dakota law lists fake critical minerals based on coal lawyers' names

Link: bismarcktribune.com/news/local
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

North Dakota law lists fake critical minerals based on coal lawyers’ names

A landmark North Dakota law approved last year accidentally lumped in two fake names in a list of critical minerals that appear to be inspired by coal company lawyers who

bismarcktribune.com · The Bismarck Tribune

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Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk@mastodon.social
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Shared by Paolo Melchiorre

I gave a lightning talk at a bunch of conferences in 2025 about some of the exciting new things coming in Python 3.14, including template strings.

One thing we can use t-strings for is to prevent SQL injection. I illustrated this with xkcd 327 aka “Little Bobby Tables”.

I localised most of the slides for the PyCon I was at, including this comic. Here they are!

hugovk.dev/blog/2026/localisin

Localising xkcd

hugovk.dev · Hugo van Kemenade

Link author: Hugo van Kemenade@hugovk@mastodon.social

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Soatok Dreamseeker @soatok@furry.engineer
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Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026

If you think about emails as if they're anything but the digital equivalent of a postcard--that is to say, they provide zero confidentiality--then someone lied to you and I'm sorry you had to find out from a furry blog that sometimes talks about applied cryptography. CMYKat At the end of 2025, at the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany, a team of security researchers posted some devastating…

soatok.blog/2026/01/04/everyth

Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026

Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026 - Dhole Moments

If you think about emails as if they’re anything but the digital equivalent of a postcard–that is to say, they provide zero confidentiality–then someone lied to you and I’m …

soatok.blog · Dhole Moments

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Bridgy Fed for Bluesky @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy
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Happy New Year! Hope you all had a good holiday. It’s shaping up to be a great year on the open social web!

We’ve been busy working on new features, internal improvements, bug fixes, and exploring new networks over the last couple months. Here are the noticeable changes on the bridge since our last update:

Bug fixes:

Internal:

As usual, feel free to ping us with feedback, questions, and bug reports, and please support us on Patreon! You can follow the now label on GitHub to see what we’re currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!

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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm: @markwyner@mas.to
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

TIL a great phrase: “no pasarán!” One of the moderators on our team mentioned it as part of her 2026 well wishes to the mod team.

It basically means “they shall not pass” in reference to fascists. It had a rich etymological history, beginning in France and moving to Spain. Originating in opposition to Nazis and fascists.

More:
thisdayinquotes.com/2013/07/no

“No pasarán!” – They shall not pass!

During the long siege of Verdun in World War I, French military leaders urged their troops to fight the invading German army with the rallying cry “Ils ne passeront pas!”…

www.thisdayinquotes.com · This Day in Quotes

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Ben Todd @monkeyben@mastodon.sdf.org
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Hey Guys, gals, people and pets, Satya Nadella is getting tired of people calling AI Slop output AI Slop. If everyone can stop that's be great as it is upsetting Microslops share holders.

Don't start calling Microslop Microslop or use the tag as it might burst the AI bubble and then Microslop might have to take SlopPilot out of Windows. As you know, that would be terrible.

windowscentral.com/artificial-

The Microsoft four coloured squares logo next to the Microslop name.
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