What is Hackers' Pub?

うちの部署、妊娠1か月の子がおるんよなぁ。。。下手にうつせないから慎重に見極めんとだ。。。

いま、Geminiに尋ねながらRustで小さなコマンドを書いている。

もちろん最初はGeminiに生成させて、エラーメッセージを元に修正を何度か繰り返すことで、とりあえず動くものはできたが、本当にこれでいいのか?というふうに思ってコードの読解を始めている。

AIを使って勢いとノリでコーディングして「よく分かんないけどなんかできたからヨシ!」とするのがいわゆるバイブコーディングだと思っている。ところが、いまの僕はAIが生成したコードに疑問を持っている。この時点で、たぶんバイブコーディングらしさというものはなくなっていて、結局は助けを借りているのが本とか検索結果とかではなく生成AIになり無駄に悩む時間が減っただけ、ということになっている気がする。

そして、元々はあるコマンドをRustに移植したかったのではじめたこともあり、AIにはそれなりに仕様を明確にして与えている。これもあんまりバイブコーディングらしくない要素かもしれない。

やりたいことのためにコードを書いている以上、プログラミングはプログラミングなんだなあと、改めて思っている。

네이트도 살려고 스레드 공계로 엄청나게 홍보하는구나

너무나 게을러서 2026년에도 이걸 일일이 끄고 있는 자들에게 부지런해지기 귀찮아요 상을 드립니다

너무나 게을러서 2026년에도 이걸 일일이 끄고 있는 자들에게 부지런해지기 귀찮아요 상을 드립니다

그래도 역시 충동적으로 가볍게 그리기엔 글라스펜이 좋긴 하다

Nioh 3 is great fun on PlayStation 5 and PS5 Pro, but there's still the sense that the Katana Engine has lost its edge: youtu.be/AjVw6wnF6Cg

그래도 역시 충동적으로 가볍게 그리기엔 글라스펜이 좋긴 하다

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

"Oh," the emperor of the galaxy said, "what happened to that monkey world?"

"Our agents infiltrated them some eight thousand years ago."

"Have they taken over the world?"

"Not yet."

The emperor licked a paw and started washing his ears.

"I'll still count it as one of mine," he purred.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

自分も #Android では公私共にお世話になってる #Thunderbird ⚡🐦

もともと K-9 Mail のころから良かったけど、ほんと色んな人に使ってもらいたい

🔗 さらばGmail。私がAndroid版「Thunderbird」に乗り換えて、もう二度と戻らないと決めた理由 | ライフハッカー・ジャパン
https://www.makeuseof.com/use-thunderbird-for-email-android/

Apple is officially working on a sequel to F1: The Movie https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/11/apple-is-officially-working-on-a-sequel-to-f1-the-movie/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The #Rust support in the #Linux #kernel is now officially a first class citizen and not considered experimental any more:

https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/9fa7153c31a3e5fe578b83d23bc9f185fde115da; for more details, see also: https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/

This is one of the highlights from the main #RustLang for #LinuxKernel 7.0 that was merged a few hours ago ; for others, see https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/a9aabb3b839aba094ed80861054993785c61462c

洗い物してゴミ捨てたりした

94枚から62枚まで厳選したけど更に厳選するのしんどいな​​
自分の写真好きだからむずかしい

@lcamtuf@infosec.exchangelcamtuf from what I can tell, and mind you this is just my best guess, the people who have taken the whole "AI is the future" bait super hard start believing that everything should be AI, because the AI is faster and easier and better, and this gets to a point where even their expression should be filtered through AI because that's faster/easier/better from their perspective

this commenter probably wrote about 1/3rd the amount of text informally into a prompt, and had some AI generate this comment, and thought "that is a better version of my self expression" and genuinely posted it... which is actually way darker if you understand it

Do not apologize for replying late to my email

Link: https://ploum.net/2026-02-11-do_not_apologize_for_replying_to_my_email.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46973355

エンドフィールドの地面・床コレクションの一部です。

昨日隣に座ってる部下の子が体調不良で早退した（明らかに体調悪そうだったから帰らせた）んだけど、いま俺めっちゃ体調悪いな。これワンチャンあるな。咳がめっちゃ出る。

아니면 잉크 마시기 좀 그러면 입욕제로 쓸까요

PROFS: The Office Suite of the 1980s

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/profs-the-office-suite-of-the-1980s/

愛国心の足りないなまけ者 にきめっ！ (@tacowasa2nd) on X
ネトウヨさん達って

「中国にガンガン制裁しろ！」「高市さんなら中国をビビらせられる！」みたいに超強硬姿勢でイキってる割りに
「報復されると日本経済が壊滅しますけど」というと
「WTO違反になるからしない」とか「中国も経済的に困るからしない筈だ」 https://x.com/i/status/2021558458084913164
ネトウヨはヘタレ中学生

하필 그 단어로 테스트...

2월 12일 #견주기
23번째 시도에 성공했습니다. 초성이 ㄱㅅㅂ인 단어를 맞출 수 있을까요?

개시발보다는, 내가 가진 답은 지갑의 구멍이 커져 돈이 샐 때의 그 안타까움이로다.

https://gyeon.postica.app

"The Everything Manual" page 256
#unix_surrealism

Initial support for pointer events in @servo merged in https://github.com/webbeef/servo/commit/39d946b01d4e9f17d8212d1d11a694187c86b66d !

Now is the time to refactor our UI touchstart / touchend event handlers

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🌟うみねこ（KTC） (@Uminekotop) on X
高市早苗「国の理想の姿を物語るのが憲法です」？
とんでもない詭弁。

憲法学者　木村草太氏
「憲法は過去に国家権力がやってきた失敗（戦争、人権侵害、独裁)を繰り返さないよう、それを禁じるルール」
「国の理想を書いたものではなく、国家権力を制限するためのもの」
https://t.co/q20QfrQhKH https://x.com/i/status/2021291031002800167

Theres an entire generation of children across a bunch of cities in the US right now whose formative memories will include masked, armed men roving around their neighborhood violently ripping neighbors from their homes

And another project using Servo underneath, this time a native Node.js binding that uses Servo to paint pixels while Node handles the OS integration
https://github.com/1Jamie/project-lotus

나 오늘 견주기 모르겠음...

Add ability to require 2FA for specific roles (including Everybody) (#37701) by ClearlyClaire has been merged! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/dfe44bcaeffe2fb908e149193fd06d4ae8946798

if humanity keeps drinking water at this rate we'll quickly run out of AI

Django Steering Council 2025 Year in Review https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/feb/11/steering-council-2025-year-in-review/

湯呑み (@yunomi_123) on X
エリートがこの世に必要なのは能力が高いぶんそうでない人達の代わりに働いて世に貢献してくれるという期待があるからで、自己責任論にかぶれて自分の利益だけを考えるエリートは要らないどころか富の分配を妨げるだけでむしろ害まである。消えて欲しい https://x.com/i/status/2021558158834254234

完全に土曜日の気分だから明日平日という事実に耐えられない

鉄のカニ🌈 (@crab_of_steel) on X
本当に、福島瑞穂も蓮舫も散々「いじめられて」きたのにな。 https://x.com/i/status/2021256700880355580

くるみわり (@nutcracker_1892) on X
2025年2月13日 - 戦争トラウマ、PTSD - 実態調査の拡大求め家族会が厚労省に要請 with #宮本徹

この証言は、今広められるべき
戦争をするということの非人道性、犯罪性
戦場を体験した兵士が心に傷を抱えることで、本人のみならず家族にも深い苦しみを与え続けるということを

#ママ戦争止めてくるわ https://x.com/i/status/2021508713492992030

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Would be cool to host a Mastodon instance totally on solar energy. A bit like what https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ or https://solarprotocol.net/ does but instead of a static website, a horizontally scaled Mastodon instance.

#solarpunk #mastodon #fediverse

有些人很在乎牛乳的營養成分，而那些在乎營養成分的人，往往也吃薯條香腸含糖飲料，為什麼這麼矛盾？

反正都喝糖了，為何還要計較 99 元奶粉奶和 169 元鮮奶誰比較營養？

『성서, 퀴어를 옹호하다』가 읽기 큐에 올라와 있다.

단장님 커미션 기다리고 잇어

글라스펜 단점: 유리몸임 ( ​​ )

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하데스 쓰다가 다른 잉크 쓰고 병 내용물까지 펄 들어가면 해피 액시던트 되는거임~ 더 예뻐지는 거지 뭐~

RE: https://serafuku.moe/notes/ailpsd2gw0

うーん・・・(2)

Hank Mobley - East Of The Village
#JazzDeVille #Jazz #NowPlaying #HankMobley

aiなんか道具にしかならんのにどうして拡大解釈しちゃうかなぁ

하데스 쓰다가 다른 잉크 쓰고 병 내용물까지 펄 들어가면 해피 액시던트 되는거임~ 더 예뻐지는 거지 뭐~

RE: https://serafuku.moe/notes/ailpsd2gw0