What is Hackers' Pub?

Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general mental exhaustion, something I've noticed in my own work https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/ai-intensifies-work/

proposal: rename "github" to "hub", as it has been increasingly unreliable at anything related to git of late

[일반] 카메라 P,A,S,M 모드 다이얼에 대해 알아보자 gall.dcinside.com/mgallery/boa... 이 글 설득력이 너무 넘친다는게 문제임

카메라 P,A,S,M 모드 다이얼에 대해 알아보자 - ...

오늘의 회화
酒(さけ)を飲(の)むなら朝(あさ)に飲(の)め。
: 술을 마신다면 아침에 마셔라.

#生成AI の話で申し訳ありませんが ぼくは焦点距離400mmのレンズが装着されている小型カメラで撮影している女子高生のイラストが見たいだけなのに 白レンズを一脚使って構える異常女子高生のイラストしかAIは描いてくれないので困ってます…
やっぱり​​になって​​依頼しなきゃ…​​

「中道が立憲のまま選挙に臨んだとしても今回の選挙結果は変わらなかっただろう」みたいなこと言うてるやつおるけど、原発ｵｯｹｰと辺野古容認が新潟と沖縄に影響なかったとでも言うのかね。それこそ有権者ﾊﾞｶにしすぎや思うけども

Claude가 생성한 C 컴파일러와 GCC 비교
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- Anthropic의 *Claude Opus 4.6* 이 전적으로 작성한 *CCC(Claude’s C Compiler)* 는 리눅스 커널을 컴파일할 수 있다고 주장하며 공개됨
- *Rust로 작성된 독립형 컴파일러* 로, 프런트엔드부터 링커까지 모든 구성요소를 직접 구현했으나, *GCC 대비 성능과 최적화 품질은 크게 떨어짐*
- *SQLite와 Linux …
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A deep dive on the meaning behind the imagery in the Bad Bunny halftime show: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/bad-bunny-super-bowl-meaning-1235513218/ (archive link: https://archive.ph/cvR3F)

LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"

Link: https://www.chainlift.io/liftkit
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46952118

！明日休みじゃん！！！​​

“만사 귀찮아” 무기력의 비밀, 뇌 안에 의욕 차단 ‘스위치’ 있다 www.hani.co.kr/arti/science... "그렇다면 심한 생활 스트레스로 번아웃 증상까지 호소하는 사람들이 많아진 현대 사회에서 동기 부여는 어느 정도까지 필요할까? 연구진은 “동기 부여를 강제로 끌어올리려 하기보다는 스트레스에 잘 대처할 수 있도록 하려면 사회가 어떤 지원을 해야 하는지에 사회적 논의의 초점을 맞춰야 할 것”이라는 의견을 내놨다."

“만사 귀찮아” 무기력의 비밀, 뇌 안에 의욕 차단 ‘...

진정한 두쫀쿠 완성이다 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Mattermost looks really nice 👀

https://mattermost.com/

ハッシュタグも入るんだw

에휴 간만에 정병발산 하고싶다

@zundanzunda 短歌を発見しました！

『絶対に 滑るずんだの だじゃれじゃよ ただし摩擦は ないものとする』

x.com/emrnvv/statu... 개웃기네

em on X: "불안형을 넘어선 불만형" / X

昨日はなんかやたらDiscord鯖に招待される日だったな。

絶対に
滑るずんだの
だじゃれじゃよ

#ただし摩擦はないものとする

뭔가 범상찮은 가게를 찾아버렸다

if Robert Heinlein were alive today he would be one of those guys who goons over chatbots

東京の方はぜひ!!
２月１１日（水・休）
●「建国記念の日」はいらない！国旗損壊罪・「明治の日」反対！ 反「紀元節」デモ
１５：００集合、１６：００デモ出発／日本キリスト教会館４F会議室（地下鉄早稲田駅出口３b５分）／主催：「紀元節」と「天皇誕生日奉祝」に反対する２.１１＆２１連続行動実行委員会／連絡先：０５０—３６３０—８９４５
チラシ
https://www.jca.apc.org/hanten-journal/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2026-211%EF%BC%8621%E3%83%93%E3%83%A9%EF%BC%88%E8%A1%A8%E9%9D%A2%EF%BC%89.pdf

ミラーレスバックミラー、リバースにしないと見えないのもあるよぬ

Nicholas Stellato, 53, who formerly served as Rear Commodore for the Ballena Bay Yacht Club, is facing charges of grand theft, making a false statement on a financial form, and money laundering after allegedly securing a $224,276.43 federal grant and then spending a significant amount on himself. https://alamedapost.com/news/former-ballena-bay-yacht-club-rear-commodore-charged-224k-scam/

#alameda #BallenaBay

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Is there such a thing as a #fediverse forum? There must be options away from Discord/Reddit and all those other centralised communities.

#Discord #Reddit #Forums

構造物​​​​ #misskey写真部

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116041069446538092

We’ve moved our internal communications from Discord to Zulip at Mastodon, and I think there are plans to do the same for our Patreon community Discord. The harder part will be untangling my gaming communities from this…

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차준환·최민정이 찬사 보낸 한식 도시락···‘밥심’ 지원하는 ‘주방의 국가대표’들 www.khan.co.kr/article/2026... "조은영 진천선수촌 영양사는 지난 9일 급식 지원센터 공개 행사에서 “운동 선수들에게 밥은 배를 채우는 것에 그치지 않는다. 에너지를 내도록 하고, 근육 회복에도 아주 중요한 요소”라며 “낯선 유럽에서 뛰는 만큼 시차 적응 등 불안 요소들을 음식을 통해 극복하도록 지원하고 응원하고자 한다. 우린 밥으로 (선수들을)응원하러 왔다”고 책임감을 이야기했다."

차준환·최민정이 찬사 보낸 한식 도시락···‘밥심’ 지...

衆議院選挙2ではさらに多くの議席、さらに多くの政党が登場

Zionist Regime Approves Plans to Annex West Bank

別当賀・落石

Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thank you Kenny Chen for assigning your copyright to the FSF! More at: https://u.fsf.org/463 #Emacs #CopyrightAssignments

추가로 공개된 문서에서 미성년자 성착취범 제프리 엡스틴과의 관계가 알려진 것보다 장기간·다층적이었다는 게 드러난 하워드 러트닉 미 상무장관에게 초당적인 사퇴 요구가 쏟아지고 있습니다. 러트닉 장관은 2005년 이후 관계를 끊었다고 주장해왔지만, 2018년까지도 교류를 지속해온 정황이 담긴 문건들이 속속 드러나고 있습니다.

엡스틴과 관계 ‘거짓 해명’ 드러난 러트닉…초당적 사퇴...

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I am so tired of people throwing up vibes as actual supportable positions. Show me the data. Show me the science. Otherwise, with respect, you might think a bit more before pressing that "Post" button.

When Discord shuts down let's all join Ray_and_Beef_Chat or local equivalent thereof

お酒は控えてくださいね​​
わかりました…​​


控えめに飲むか​​

삡투두
개척이 완료되었읍니다
참여해주신 모험가분들께 무궁한 영광 있기를!
마지막 트로피와 지도가 배부되었습니다.
모험가분들의 용기와 노고로 완성된 소중한 지도는
훈장 섹션에 보관됩니다.
#삡투두 #투두벤처_공지

@hyoyoshikawa
どうやらダメのようです。日経平均は大きく上がってしまっています。
高市政権は円安誘導するでしょうから，今後1ドル=200円もあり得ます。更なる物価高で一般市民の生活は立ち行かなくなること確実です。
#自民党 #日本終了

「お前、こないだベロベロに酔って『自分がロックス海賊団に所属していた頃の架空の思い出話』を延々してたぞ」と言われたけど記憶にない

Discord, 다음 달부터 전체 기능 이용 시 얼굴 스캔 또는 신분증 인증 요구
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- 3월부터 모든 계정이 기본적으로 *‘청소년용 환경’* 으로 설정되며, 성인임을 증명해야 전체 기능 이용 가능
- *연령 추정 모델* 이 계정 정보, 기기 및 활동 데이터를 활용해 대부분의 성인 계정을 자동 판별
- 미성년자로 분류된 계정은 *연령 제한 서버·채널 접근, Stage 채널 발언, 민감 콘텐츠 열람* 이 …
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たかし「オレオレ！交通事故でお金が必要だから2時間以内に​​」

FOSDEM 2026: The Kid Who Dreamed of Hackers Found Them in Brussels

Summary: A kid from a small Mexican town dreamed of finding real-life hackers. Two decades later, he flew his family to Brussels and spoke at one of the world’s largest open-source conferences. This is that story.

“We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.” – David D. Clark

The Dream

When I was a young hacker—yeah, believe it or not—my dream was to find other hackers in real life and just hang out together. That’s it. That was the whole dream.

It sounds modest now, but you have to understand the context. I come from a very small town in Mexico, the kind of place where internet was a luxury, Linux was a word nobody recognized, and “Windows” was mostly what you opened to let the heat out. The idea of attending a tech conference was absurd. Attending one in English? In another country? That was pure science fiction—like telling my block friends about Dragon Ball Z spoilers I’d read online, except even less believable.

But with time, and a painfully slow DSL connection, I found my people. I stumbled into the local Linux user group—fewer than ten of us in a city of thousands—and we built something from nothing. A hackerspace. Community events. Workshops with maybe a dozen attendees if we were lucky. Eventually, I found my way to national conferences and even talked at a few of them. Each one felt like a small victory, a tiny crack in the wall between where I was and where I wanted to be.

The Shot

So when the opportunity to submit a talk to FOSDEM 2026 appeared, I just shot my shot.

I did it almost by instinct, without overthinking it. FOSDEM—the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting—is one of the largest open-source conferences in the world. Thousands of developers, hundreds of talks, legendary project booths. It had always been a place that existed on the other side of a dream for me. But here’s the thing: I’m more financially stable now, I’ve traveled to Europe for both leisure and work, and I speak comfortable (but still heavily accented) English. I’ve made peace with my accent—it’s part of the package, take it or leave it.

So, why not? The real surprise was that I hadn’t applied before.

The Logistics of Madness

When my proposed talk was accepted, my first reaction wasn’t joy—it was panic. The kind of panic you feel when you push to main and then read the diff. The real problem was logistics.

I already had a trip to Mexico planned for personal reasons. Going to FOSDEM meant extending the family travel by a week, rerouting flights, and solving the kind of logistical puzzle that makes your brain hurt. Tepic, a small city in the mountains of western Mexico → Mexico City → London → Brussels. With a seven-year-old. And a month’s worth of luggage packed for both the scorching Mexican beach and a freezing European winter—flip-flops sharing suitcase space with thermal jackets, sunscreen next to wool scarves. And sanity (debatable).

After my wife—bless her patience—said “just go for it,” and after numerous conversations with both AI and non-AI advisors about how to make it less stressful, we committed. At the end of January, I found myself at the tiny airport of Tepic, eating the most amazing torta de pierna, beginning an absurd journey to Belgium.

We crossed through London, hopped on the Eurostar to Brussels, and somewhere between countries, we lost a pillow—a bear-shaped one my kid had shamelessly stolen from his grandma. Rest in peace, little bear pillow. You survived a Mexican grandmother’s house only to perish somewhere in the English Channel.

The Candy Store

And then, there I was. At FOSDEM. With my kid. In Brussels.

The place was electric. People from every imaginable background wandered through the halls of the Université libre de Bruxelles. I’ll be honest—there’s still a noticeable lack of diversity, especially in gender representation—but the energy was undeniable. It felt like a living, breathing monument to what open source can be.

Seeing the project booths was like being a kid in a candy store—except I literally had a kid with me in this candy store. Mozilla, Thunderbird, Let’s Encrypt, SUSE, and of course Mastodon, to name a few. I couldn’t help myself; I told my son that when I was young, one of my first dreams was to work for SUSE. He listened carefully, the way seven-year-olds do when they’re filing away information for later use (probably to embarrass me at dinner).

Keeping a seven-year-old entertained at a developer conference is its own extreme sport. Thankfully, a friend I hadn’t seen in over a decade was there—with his kid. He’s a no-gringo, a Dutchman who happens to have worked at Innox in Mexico. Our kids hit it off, and suddenly the conference had a parallel track: unsupervised children’s chaos edition.

The Talk

When the time came for my talk, I walked in, set up, and delivered something far from perfect—but unmistakably mine. I stumbled on a couple of words, my accent was thick, and I’m sure I made at least one joke that only landed for me. But that’s the style. That’s always been the style.

Just before stepping up, Elena handed me the most fabulous FOSDEM sweater in existence. People noticed. People asked where to get one. But no—only I could have it. Exclusive distribution, zero units available. (Okay fine, I was just lucky, but let me have this moment.)

If I have one regret, it’s not spending more time in other talks. It’s not that I didn’t try—I did—but balancing a seven-year-old’s attention span with a conference schedule is a negotiation no diplomacy course prepares you for. I caught fragments, glimpses, enough to know I was missing incredible stuff. But that’s the thing about FOSDEM: it’s not a one-time event. I’ll be back. And next time, I want to do more than speak—I want to listen, linger, and actually have those hallway conversations that everyone says are the best part of any conference.

The Kid and the Dream

Here’s what got me, though. The part I didn’t expect.

My kid watched me speak at FOSDEM. He didn’t fully understand the content—he’s seven, and ActivityPub isn’t exactly bedtime story material—but he saw his dad on a stage, in front of a room full of people, in another continent, talking about something he built. When the Q&A started, he wanted to raise his hand. He got shy, though, and didn’t. Later, visibly upset about his missed opportunity, he told me what he wanted to ask: “Do you play Minecraft?” In front of an auditorium full of open-source developers discussing federation protocols, my kid’s burning question was about Minecraft. I love this human being more than I can express.

He asked questions the entire trip back: “What does SUSE do?” “Will you talk at another one?” “Can I have my own desk computer?”

He saw the booths, the projects, the people. He kept posing for photos with each open-source mascot like a tiny celebrity on a press tour. His favorite was the PostgreSQL elephant, though we were genuinely concerned about its health. Based on the state of that costume, I think he might be right—PostgreSQL could use your donations, folks. That elephant has seen better days.

And the trip back was no less insane than the trip there. Brussels → Iceland → Seattle. Because apparently, when you’re already doing something absurd, you might as well add a layover near the Arctic Circle. We landed in Reykjavík with our beach-and-winter Frankenstein luggage, stepped outside into wind that felt personally offended by our existence, and my kid asked if the land was actually made of ice. Close enough, kid. Close enough.

A week later, during a conversation with his teacher, my son was asked about the most memorable thing from the trip. He didn’t say the beach in Mexico, or the train through Europe, or the wind in Iceland, or even the lost bear pillow. He said the most memorable thing was seeing his dad talk at a university. That it made him proud (I’m not going to pretend I didn’t need a moment after hearing that).

I thought about my own childhood. About the kid who couldn’t find a single hacker in his town. About the dusty streets and half-built houses. About how representation works in mysterious ways—how seeing someone like you doing something impossible makes it feel possible. My son doesn’t know what it’s like to not see a path. For him, this is just what dad does. And maybe that’s the whole point.

Full Circle

Twenty years ago, I was a teenager in a small Mexican town, writing code in paper notebooks and dreaming of a world I could barely imagine. Today, I stood in Brussels and spoke to a room full of open-source developers about a project I created.

The path from there to here wasn’t straight. It was messy, full of detours, broken English, lost pillows, and more coffee than any doctor would recommend. But every step—every hackerspace meetup with eight people, every local conference talk, every late night wrestling with code—was a brick in the road that led to that stage.

And yeah, I get it, talking for half an hour at a conference with hundreds of talks may seem like a small feat. One slot among many. But it wasn’t small to me. For the kid who couldn’t find a single hacker in his hometown, standing in front of that room was enormous.

FOSDEM wasn’t just a conference for me. It was proof that the kid from Tepic who dreamed of finding hackers in real life finally did. They were in Brussels all along, waiting for him to show up.

And he brought his kid.

Also readable in: https://maho.dev/2026/02/fosdem-2026-the-kid-who-dreamed-of-hackers-found-them-in-brussels/ by @mapacheMaho 🦝🍻:

#fosdem #open-source #conferences #community #travel #personal-growth #europe #public-speaking

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