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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Mothy and the Squid @mothyandthesquid@glasgow.social
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This week has been a glory of teals and blues with hints of purple. I’ve chosen birds as inspiration to encourage folk to consider joining the Eurasian Birds Yarn Club. If you sign up now, you’ll get February (wren) and if you buy Robin (January) at the same time I’ll refund your postage. You get to save and collect the whole series, but it’s not taking advantage of me as I will send them both together. It’s win-win! mothyandthesquid.com

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kazuhito @kazuhito@vivaldi.net
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馬鹿にされたものだねえ、実際そうなんだろうけど

英紙の皮肉「日本で選挙に勝ちたければ“はっきり話して、何も言うな”」 | クーリエ・ジャポン courrier.jp/news/archives/4330

英紙の皮肉「日本で選挙に勝ちたければ“はっきり話して、何も言うな”」 | 政策よりも親しみやすさが勝利の鍵に

明日2月8日に迫った衆議院選挙の投開票。海外メディアでも日本の選挙は取り上げられているが、なかでも英紙「タイムズ」は辛辣なタイトルで記事を掲載してい…

courrier.jp · クーリエ・ジャポン

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The Lost BBC Interview That Reignited the Banksy Name Debate (+17 Photos)

STREET ART UTOPIA @streetartutopia@streetartutopia.com

Banksy’s work still pulls massive attention worldwide — especially since new claims about his identity have been circulating. In this rare BBC interview, he talks openly about his process, his views on graffiti, and how he keeps distance from the traditional art world. Does it offer a real clue to who he is? Watch the full interview: BANKSY – The Lost Interview: A Glimpse into Banksy’s Artistic World 🌿 1. Inside “Turf War” (2003) A big part of the interview focuses on Turf […]

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End Israeli Apartheid @EndIsraeliApartheid@mastodon.social
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The Department of Defense has quietly signed a $210 million deal to buy advanced cluster shells from one of Israel’s state-owned arms companies, marking unusually large new commitments to a class of weapons and an Israeli defense establishment.

The deal, signed in September and not previously reported, is the department’s largest contract to purchase weapons from an Israeli company in available records.

theintercept.com/2026/02/06/pe

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Pentagon Makes Largest Known Arms Purchase From Israel — For Banned Cluster Weapons

The contract for the controversial weapons known for high civilian death tolls is the largest of its kind in available government records.

theintercept.com · The Intercept

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Piccalilli @piccalilli@front-end.social
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The open source design stack

Scott Riley tested free and open source design tools out when researching his course, Mindful Design. They actually worked out better than Figma ever could, as he explains in this article with loads of options for you.

piccalil.li/blog/the-open-sour

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The open source design stack

Scott Riley tested free and open source design tools out when researching his course, Mindful Design. They actually worked out better than Figma ever could, as he explains in this article with loads of options for you.

piccalil.li · Piccalilli

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End Israeli Apartheid @EndIsraeliApartheid@mastodon.social
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The Met Police is refusing to admit the existence of a classified document, which pro-Israel groups used to lobby the government over the proscription of Palestine Action.

It’s well documented that the Zionist lobby group We Believe in Israel (WBII) was a primary actor among those lobbying for the proscription of Palestine Action.

thecanary.co/uk/2026/02/06/%e2

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⁠Met police refuse to say if it shared classified documents with Israel lobby groups

The Canary wanted to know if the Met Police had shared classified documents with pro-genocide Zionist lobbyists like Stop The Hate UK

www.thecanary.co · Canary

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kazuhito @kazuhito@vivaldi.net
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"日本は大統領制ではない。にもかかわらず、選挙の焦点が「一人の人物への信任投票の様相」を見せている"

心底ウンザリだ

｢トランプ再登板｣の米国と同じ道を歩んでいる…政治を｢推し活化｣した日本人がこれから受ける"しっぺ返し" (2ページ目) | PRESIDENT Online（プレジデントオンライン） president.jp/articles/-/108756

｢トランプ再登板｣の米国と同じ道を歩んでいる…政治を｢推し活化｣した日本人がこれから受ける"しっぺ返し" (2ページ目)

「この人（私）に、国を任せられるかどうか」高市首相は衆院解散の大義をこのように語った。今回の選挙をめぐり、海外メディアが強い既視感を覚えている理由は、ここにある。日本は大統領制ではない。にもかかわら…

president.jp · PRESIDENT Online（プレジデントオンライン）

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Holos Social @HolosSocial@mastodon.social
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1.0.0-rc-2 has been published. In this version, you can connect your domain to create your unique account identity. The first time, it will send a Move activity so you don't lose your followers/following. Then you will have an identity that no longer depends on the relays, and you'll be free to move between relays whenever you want.

More about custom domains: holos.social/custom-domains

Download: holos.social/signup

Release notes: codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-App/r

Custom Domains - Holos

Your identity, your domain - true ownership of your fediverse presence

holos.social

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Jeremy @Jeremy@nwt.social
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Hey @paigePAIGE! 🍁 @smattymattyMathew Storm @evanEvan Prodromou @paulbuschInnocuous In Innisfil 🇨🇦 and other fediverse problem solvers. If a fellow wanted to organize and promote an event on Mastodon, or perhaps connect some sort of event calendar to their local server, what would be the least clunky way to do this? Ideally this fellow would be able to see who has signed up to attend the event and message attendees with updates and so on.

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary: @hongminhee@hollo.social
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I have deeply mixed feelings about 's adoption of JSON-LD, as someone who's spent way too long dealing with it while building .

Part of me wishes it had never happened. A lot of developers jump into ActivityPub development without really understanding JSON-LD, and honestly, can you blame them? The result is a growing number of implementations producing technically invalid JSON-LD. It works, sort of, because everyone's just pattern-matching against what Mastodon does, but it's not correct. And even developers who do take the time to understand JSON-LD often end up hardcoding their documents anyway, because proper JSON-LD processor libraries simply don't exist for many languages. No safety net, no validation, just vibes and hoping you got the @context right. Naturally, mistakes creep in.

But then the other part of me thinks: well, we're stuck with JSON-LD now. There's no going back. So wouldn't it be nice if people actually used it properly? Process the documents, normalize them, do the compaction and expansion dance the way the spec intended. That's what Fedify does.

Here's the part that really gets to me, though. Because Fedify actually processes JSON-LD correctly, it's more likely to break when talking to implementations that produce malformed documents. From the end user's perspective, Fedify looks like the fragile one. “Why can't I follow this person?” Well, because their server is emitting garbage JSON-LD that happens to work with implementations that just treat it as a regular JSON blob. Every time I get one of these bug reports, I feel a certain injustice. Like being the only person in the group project who actually read the assignment.

To be fair, there are real practical reasons why most people don't bother with proper JSON-LD processing. Implementing a full processor is genuinely a lot of work. It leans on the entire Linked Data stack, which is bigger than most people expect going in. And the performance cost isn't trivial either. Fedify uses some tricks to keep things fast, and I'll be honest, that code isn't my proudest work.

Anyway, none of this is going anywhere. Just me grumbling into the void. If you're building an ActivityPub implementation, maybe consider using a JSON-LD processor if one's available for your language. And if you're not going to, at least test your output against implementations that do.

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leyrer @leyrer@23.social
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Zweites mal Gym in diesem Jahr, nachdem ich im Jänner nur krank war.
Ohne dem Onsen in der Spa-Landschaft, wäre ich viel kaputter.

In other news: ignoriert die "riesen-rosine gefunden" meldungen in den medien morgen.

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Jeremy @Jeremy@nwt.social
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Hey @paigePAIGE! 🍁 @smattymattyMathew Storm @evanEvan Prodromou @paulbuschInnocuous In Innisfil 🇨🇦 and other fediverse problem solvers. If a fellow wanted to organize and promote an event on Mastodon, or perhaps connect some sort of event calendar to their local server, what would be the least clunky way to do this? Ideally this fellow would be able to see who has signed up to attend the event and message attendees with updates and so on.

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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Love and Math by Edward Frenkel, 2013

The Heart of Hidden Reality

An awesome, globe-spanning, and New York Times best-selling journey through the beauty and power of mathematics.

At its core, Love and Math is a story about accessing a new way of thinking, which can enrich our lives and empower us to better understand the world and our place in it. It is an invitation to discover the magic hidden universe of mathematics.



What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the intellectual equivalent of watching paint dry. In Love and Math, renowned mathematician Edward Frenkel reveals a side of math we've never seen, suffused with all the beauty and elegance of a work of art. In this heartfelt and passionate book, Frenkel shows that mathematics, far from occupying a specialist niche, goes to the heart of all matter, uniting us across cultures, time, and space. Love and Math tells two intertwined stories: of the wonders of mathematics and of one young man's journey learning and living it. Having braved a discriminatory educational system to become one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, Frenkel now works on one of the biggest ideas to come out of math in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. Considered by many to be a Grand Unified Theory of mathematics, the Langlands Program enables researchers to translate findings from one field to another so that they can solve problems, such as Fermat's last theorem, that had seemed intractable before.
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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Love and Math by Edward Frenkel, 2013

The Heart of Hidden Reality

An awesome, globe-spanning, and New York Times best-selling journey through the beauty and power of mathematics.

At its core, Love and Math is a story about accessing a new way of thinking, which can enrich our lives and empower us to better understand the world and our place in it. It is an invitation to discover the magic hidden universe of mathematics.



What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the intellectual equivalent of watching paint dry. In Love and Math, renowned mathematician Edward Frenkel reveals a side of math we've never seen, suffused with all the beauty and elegance of a work of art. In this heartfelt and passionate book, Frenkel shows that mathematics, far from occupying a specialist niche, goes to the heart of all matter, uniting us across cultures, time, and space. Love and Math tells two intertwined stories: of the wonders of mathematics and of one young man's journey learning and living it. Having braved a discriminatory educational system to become one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, Frenkel now works on one of the biggest ideas to come out of math in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. Considered by many to be a Grand Unified Theory of mathematics, the Langlands Program enables researchers to translate findings from one field to another so that they can solve problems, such as Fermat's last theorem, that had seemed intractable before.
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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the president of Somalia, says what the world has seen in Gaza is “another level of inhumane engagement in the history of the world.”

“This must remain an international priority despite all other challenges globally simply because without an equitable, legal, durable solution based on the two-state solution the world has been advocating for long, it will be a recurrent misfortune that the world will experience more.”



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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Total losses of transport infrastructure in Gaza estimated at $2.5bn

Every morning, university professor Hassan El-Nabih straps his briefcase and laptop to his bicycle and rides out in search of a place with electricity and an internet connection, hoping to reach his students online.

aljazeera.com/features/2026/2/



A displaced Palestinian drives his damaged vehicle as he transports residents in Gaza City, on January 25, 2026 [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]
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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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About 46 percent of essential medicines out of stock in Gaza,

46 percent of essential medicines are out of stock, 66 percent of medical supplies are also out of stock and 84 percent of laboratory and blood bank supplies are depleted.

“The catastrophic effects of the ‘health annihilation’ have made the continuation of healthcare a daily miracle and a major challenge to recovery efforts and the restoration of many specialised services.”


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