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 saw yet another “CSS is a massively bloated mess” whine and I’m like. My dude. My brother in Chromium. It is trying as hard as it can to express the totality of visual presentation and layout design and typography and animation and digital interactivity and a few other things in a human-readable text format. It’s not bloated, it’s fantastically ambitious. Its reach is greater than most of us can hope to grasp. Put some *respect* on its *name*.

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If you follow anyone from the Mastodon instance oldfriends.live they seem to be having some major problems at the moment.

They're reaching out asking for help from anyone who feels like they're enough of a expert to help them troubleshoot what sounds like major database issues.

oldfriends.live

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It sure looks like Benj Edwards and Kyle Orland at @arstechnica used a badly behaved chatbot to write their article about somebody else's badly behaved chatbot. At the very least, they signed off on bunch of fabricated quotes.

Ars Technica used to be so good.

(Edit: Article got pulled, but the internet remembers: infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/11 )

infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/11

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RE: mastodon.social/@HolosSocial/1

Some positive news for : the relay now automatically generates SSL certificates for custom domains verified via CNAME, with a job running every 5 minutes to issue and renew them.
This means true ownership of your Fediverse identity: your domain, your name, fully working through ActivityPub. No other server needed, just your phone.
holos.social/custom-domains

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A smol policy update for crates.io malware notifications: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/02/13/

(tl;dr: for the common case where a malicious crate has no actual usage; we're no longer going to publish blog posts, but you can always get advisories via RustSec)

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@misty @janlJan Lehnardt :couchdb: I have had PRs taken from me, rewritten, and submitted under someone else's name - with zero credit - multiple times. This is something I will literally rage quit a project over.

Merge my PRs so I can show the commit hash to someone. Make your modifications to my version so people can see your changes.

Anything else is just as blatant of theft of IP, and worse, because it removes my potential jobs down the road.

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