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.
I was talking to someone about Amazon laying off 30,000 people over the past few months and their response was that’s relatively small given COVID over hiring. I thought that was insensitive and decided to look up how many people they hired during the pandemic.
They hired half a million people in one year. 🤯
Americans live in a space and time when our popular websites are running reviews of the best gas masks to use when our government attacks us with teargas.
I was talking to someone about Amazon laying off 30,000 people over the past few months and their response was that’s relatively small given COVID over hiring. I thought that was insensitive and decided to look up how many people they hired during the pandemic.
They hired half a million people in one year. 🤯
At Britannia pool today random debris fell from the ceiling into the pool so they just closed 3/6 lanes and left the debris where it is😅 quality experience in Ken Sim's Vancouver
ねもい
I can't believe it's 2026 and I'm *still* dealing with detecting unsupported emojis in browsers, because of course browser emoji support is still all over the place: https://github.com/nolanlawson/emoji-picker-element/issues/514
We will colonize Mars before browsers figure out how to draw a smiley face.
i'm helping organize this show in #newhaven with fellow fedizen 
@protoproto ◇ ! and some other people who i don't think are on here, but all in the "experimental electronic" umbrella. oh, and i'm doing visuals. should be a fun time!
https://palomakop.tv/events/2026-02-21_imaginary-prisons-ruby/
今晩は肉じゃが♪って思ってたけど長ネギを発見できなかったんだった…。先週に引き続きカレーを作ろうかねぇ
とりあえず今日を生き延びよう……
@MattMerkMatthew Merkovich 
@pluralisticCory Doctorow my hometown of Somerville, MA, is covered in stickers on utility boxes and so forth. my favorite read
ALL STICKERS
EXCEPT STICKERS
ABOUT STICKERS
BEING PROHIBITED
ARE PROHIBITED
@drawnonglassDrew @MattMerkMatthew Merkovich @pluralisticCory Doctorow
my laptop at the moment...
(platonically)
When you have all the answers.
Edit: artist is Michael James Schneider (h/t 
@jsitJay)
In a couple of days, we're going to be interviewing @pluralisticCory Doctorow on the 
@streetsmn Podcast about his 2023 book _The Lost Cause_. If you have questions you want us to ask, reply here!
#StreetsMNPodcast
#solarpunk
Oh! This looks good! And with an all-star roster including 
@evanEvan Prodromou and @pluralisticCory Doctorow !
https://mastodon.social/@box464/116022035776088051
#mastodon #fediverse
Other config file thoughts: KDL is amazing. I also wish that there was a popular, well-supported key-value format¹ that both allows comments and isn't named after an infamous sexual harasser.
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¹node-based is awesome but not always what I'm looking for
伊藤昌亮／Masaaki ITO (@maito1212) on X
今回の「高市現象」はかつての「石丸現象」に似ています。両氏とも政策を語らず、「自己啓発キャラクター」に徹しました。石丸氏は「ロジカル思考」の、高市氏は「ポジティブ思考」の伝道者として。「積極財政」という彼女のキーワードも「ポジティブ思考」の現れとして受け止められたのでしょう。 https://x.com/i/status/2020568088325111875
岡田斗司夫のホワイト社会の応用か
See, puns are a major driver of cultural and societal improvement. https://beige.party/@TheBreadmonkey/116037236611234808
Let's compile Quake like it's 1997
Link: https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46936274
The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster
Link: https://insideevs.com/news/786509/catl-changan-worlds-first-sodium-ion-battery-ev/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46936315
気温-8.8℃
'There's no reason to ban us from playing': Analysis debunks notion that transgender women have inherent physical advantages in sports
https://www.livescience.com/health/theres-no-reason-to-ban-us-from-playing-analysis-debunks-notion-that-transgender-women-have-inherent-physical-advantages-in-sports
헤겔아저씨 이야기 나올때마다 제가 말 실수 했던 “우리는 뒤로 두걸음 가지만 결국 앞으로 한걸음 가게될거다”라고 한 말이 생각나요
The Internationalization Working Group 
@webi18nW3C Internationalization, i18n has published the first draft of a Group Note titled "Text-to-Speech Rendering of Electronic Documents Containing Ruby: User Requirements". This document describes user requirements related to text-to-speech rendering of electronic documents containing ruby annotations.
#i18n #internationalization
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/group-note-draft-ruby-tts-req/
ʕ•͡ω•ʔ 奇跡的に最寄り駅から座れた
We've successfully upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.6.0-alpha.4+mementomods-2026-02-08, along with Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4.
This update includes today's latest daily build with 112 new commits from upstream since alpha.3 (2026-01-24).
What's new in Mastodon core - These are the changes Mastodon Team have introduced us in the latest nightly version we are running:
🔒 Security
- Upstream security patch
✨ New features (some only on the back end for now)
- Better language support: Horizontal and vertical posts can now coexist
- Mute end date now shown in badge
- Text-autospace added to post content
- Collections: create, edit, delete, and federated across servers
- Store remote actors' profile pic and header descriptions
- Flag to preserve cached media on cleanup
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix quote cancel button appearing in all statuses
- Fix followers with bell icon being notified of post edits
- Fix quote cancel button not appearing after edit then delete-and-redraft
- Fix remote account last status tracking
- Fix filtering of mentions from filtered-on-their origin-server accounts
- Fix connection leak issues
- Fix duplicate hashtag processing in object updates
🔧 Other
- "Anyone can quote" label changed to "quotes allowed"
- Various dependency updates (pg, brakeman, dotenv, pino, paperclip, etc.)
🔮 Upcoming
- A profile redesign is being built incrementally upstream
- Pinned posts, follow button reorg, featured tags, badges, timeline filters, and more are landing as foundational pieces.
🐦⬛ Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4 (nightly)
- Fix translate button color not matching link color
- Fix extra border-left showing up in mobile devices
Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4 is still a work in progress in the nightly branch. It's not 100% ready, but it's stable with today's Mastodon alpha.4.
Source code: https://github.com/mementomori-social/mastodon
As always, if you notice anything unusual or buggy, please reach out to me or any of the admins. Enjoy your time here, and feel free to message me with any questions or thoughts. 
If anything feels off, please let us know!
도서관 관련 아시는 분들께 여쭙습니다.
1) 희망도서신청 거부사유로 ‘정치적’인 경우가 무엇을 말하는지 알고 싶습니다.
2) 현역시장의 도서들이 지방선거를 앞두고 지역도서관에 들어온 경우 이른바 어른의 사정이 있겠지만 문제 없는지요? 시장의 도서기증이어도, 도서관에서 돈주고 샀어도, 누군가의 희망도서신청이었어도 정치적인 것 같습니다만.
지역 도서관에 문제 제기하기 전에 관련 정보들을 알고 싶습니다.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3obgngj5swalbbzl4t7xvny6/post/3medn4vmutc2n
도서관 관련 아시는 분들께 여쭙습니다.
1) 희망도서신청 거부사유로 ‘정치적’인 경우가 무엇을 말하는지 알고 싶습니다.
2) 현역시장의 도서들이 지방선거를 앞두고 지역도서관에 들어온 경우 이른바 어른의 사정이 있겠지만 문제 없는지요? 시장의 도서기증이어도, 도서관에서 돈주고 샀어도, 누군가의 희망도서신청이었어도 정치적인 것 같습니다만.
지역 도서관에 문제 제기하기 전에 관련 정보들을 알고 싶습니다.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3obgngj5swalbbzl4t7xvny6/post/3medn4vmutc2n
I completely agree that you gotta make an honest effort at couples counseling before seriously considering divorce. Unfortunately, our couples counselor turned out to be this guy:
久々にチャンネル周りうろうろしてたらもう朝だわ 
life is a hell of a drug
おはよう
-4℃だ
The Internationalization Working Group @webi18nW3C Internationalization, i18n has published the first draft of a Group Note titled "Text-to-Speech Rendering of Electronic Documents Containing Ruby: User Requirements". This document describes user requirements related to text-to-speech rendering of electronic documents containing ruby annotations.
#i18n #internationalization
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/group-note-draft-ruby-tts-req/
A reader asked "How can I find good, human-made books?"
I'm going to counter the AI-slop by recommending more books that I love — ones I read, ones my friends write, ones I know are human art fighting to exist in an AI-slop world.
Don't look to algos to tell you what to read: ask your friends, go back to authors you love and see what they recommend, find real humans talking about real books. That's how books have always been found, before the algos colonized our info spaces.
일본이란 나라는 평화를 지향한다고 하는데 투표하는거보면 누구보다도 전쟁과 혼돈을 좋아하는 것 같다는 기분이 드는것은 내가 정치를 잘 몰라서일까
I have deeply mixed feelings about #ActivityPub's adoption of JSON-LD, as someone who's spent way too long dealing with it while building #Fedify.
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.
국제 관계
komma komma komma
Americans live in a space and time when our popular websites are running reviews of the best gas masks to use when our government attacks us with teargas.
Jeff Atwood
Dan Piponi
四姉妹＆青三角Ｗ連載中 
Em 
洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) 
GENKI
wakest ⁂
Maho 🦝🍻
Daniel Appelquist
