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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I've read this quote multiple times, over the years:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

It turns out it's from a comment on a blog post moaning about liberals: crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l

The rest of the comment is a lot more interesting than the pithy quote, because it cuts through a lot of the usual noise in leftist discourse.

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"We know first-hand that even ad-funded websites with the best of intentions need to constantly chase traffic growth just to maintain stasis.

You know half of this story already. Browsing the modern web means wrasslin' with notification popups, adverts that cover the articles and follow you down the page, auto-playing videos, affiliate links, sponsored content, and more.

Perhaps less obvious is the kind of writing that disappears in the process."

jank.cool/welcome-to-jank/

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One thing I love about being involved in my College is I get a direct line on what young people are thinking.

In my circle of 30-50-somethings, it's taken for granted that "AI" is changing everything. Some people express caution that we shouldn't even take any position on software engineering education because it will be out of date within a week.

Meanwhile, my students are telling me that in their cohort, everyone is tired of AI and wants to learn proper software engineering.

One lesson here is: do you remember how clueless your boss was about everything? Recognise when you are in the "boss" demographic, and that your breathless enthusiasm and concern may be equally misinformed.

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NEW POST

Erik Doernenburg is the maintainer of CCMenu: a Mac application that shows the status of CI/CD builds in the Mac menu bar. He assesses how using a coding agent affects internal code quality by adding a feature using the agent, and seeing what happens to the code.

martinfowler.com/articles/expl

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Prediction:

Pinterest, as people have known it, will be dead within five years. I honestly don't think the leadership there has any idea what their userbase actually wants. The End of UX continues…

(I wonder if it's time for a version of Pinterest. Scratch that, it is definitely time!)

theverge.com/news/868531/pinte

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We must stand up for Alex Pretti, a Minneapolis union VA Nurse who was murdered by federal agents on Saturday.
Please join us Tuesday Jan 27 at 6:30 pm
at San Francisco VA Medical Center, Corner of 42nd & Clement.

Together we transform grief into unity and resilience.

Vigil for Alex Pretti, dedicated VA nurse and beloved community member.

Tuesday, January 27, 6:30 PM, SF VA Medical Center, corner of 42nd and Clement.

NFFE Local 1 invites nurses, healthcare workers, veterans, union siblings, allies, and community members to stand together in support, solidarity, and remembrance.

Bring candles, tealights, or glowsticks.
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In December I notified my IG followers I would be leaving that social network and that if they wanted to follow me, they could do so on my blog, phone, e-mail, or mastodon. I left links on my profile, etc. I deleted the app on Jan 1st and never checked it again.

Today to my surprise I received a notification that I had a new follower request from some relative, and to my surprise when I went there to decline I had *a lot* of unread messages from people who completely ignored...

(continued)

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This morning, ICE was staking out an elementary school bus stop here in Minneapolis. A crowd with whistles chased them off.

Just in case you somehow thought they were leaving Minnesota.

Just in case Senators somehow thought maybe it’s OK to give them a military-sized budget after all just because they demoted that one guy.

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