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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@benBen Werdmuller wrote a good article "Growing the open social web" for FediForum.

It poses this *essential* question: Why do we want to grow the open social web and for whom?

While the question is crucial when considering the future of social networking and the role of online technologies in society, it is not a question that is being addressed in any significant way. Our social web and fediverse "just happens", emerging from this chaotic cauldron of mostly technical discussions about which features to put in apps, how to connect one app to the next, and which social web technology or app is better than others.

Ben makes an appeal for creating good protocols, where the real value is, but only if we can share ownership of them. I 100% agree with the points in the article.

But how do we get there? What is this ownership? How do we achieve it, and subsequently retain it? I wrote down some some thoughts in a blog post.

coding.social/blog/shared-owne

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worm-blossom.org/ is such a lovely website, I really love how hand-made its stuff is. The music and artwork and everything

Oh hey also my thread about funding challenges also appears in Links of the Week worm-blossom.org/#y2026w7a2

Wait a minute is "worm-blossom" a pun on "brainworms"

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“I feel like, increasingly, it's impossible to talk to a single human [at Pinterest],” Pinterest user Tiana Oreglia said. “Along with being filled with AI images that have been completely ruining the platform, Pinterest has implemented terrible AI moderation” 404media.co/pinterest-is-drown

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"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

aftermath.site/anthropic-claud

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Big Tech: "Introducing AI that can hallucinate answers to questions you didn't ask"
Vivaldi: "We made the most advanced tab multitasking system ever built”
Big Tech: "But AI is the future…."
Vivaldi: "Cool. Our future includes a browser the user controls, and it shipped today"
Big Tech: "You're missing the point…."
Vivaldi: "You're missing the download link"

Vivaldi 7.8. No bullshit. Just love for tabs and our users
vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-de

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“I feel like, increasingly, it's impossible to talk to a single human [at Pinterest],” Pinterest user Tiana Oreglia said. “Along with being filled with AI images that have been completely ruining the platform, Pinterest has implemented terrible AI moderation” 404media.co/pinterest-is-drown

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worm-blossom.org/ is such a lovely website, I really love how hand-made its stuff is. The music and artwork and everything

Oh hey also my thread about funding challenges also appears in Links of the Week worm-blossom.org/#y2026w7a2

Wait a minute is "worm-blossom" a pun on "brainworms"

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🚢 New Changelog interview!

Steve Ruiz joins us for a deep-dive on tldraw (a very good free whiteboard) and the business he's built selling SDKs that help others build very good whiteboards (and more) with tldraw's high-performance web canvas.

Along the way, we discuss the excitement/fear we share about keeping our agents busy, how SDK and infra companies are affected differently by agentic software than SaaS companies, how Steve is approaching the com...

👉 changelog.fm/677

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