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.

0
0
1
1
0
1
0

Feels like I constantly complain about this but man do I hate 2026-era web development stacks!!!

I often find myself looking at a project website that's serving less than a dozen static documents to the end user... why am I looking at Vite and a build process at all???

It's like looking at a McDonald's franchise supply chain (warehouses, trucks, repeatability) and saying, "Yes, that is the appropriate setup for my home kitchen, just in case I one day need to scale it to a worldwide franchise."

0
0
1
0

I was just reminded of the awesomeness of the self-hosted platform that is connect to the by

This allows us to follow, comment etc etc from or similar apps:)

And discovery is easy:).

index.castopod.org/#&language=

And to get you started, for the techies out there, may I suggest

@overlappodcastThe Overlap

the latest episode is amazing!

"Guerrilla Infrastructure in the Age of the Electrostate"

0

Remember the "One Laptop Per Child" project, that developed a low-cost computer for children in developing countries? I was always amazed by a certain feature: The "View Source" button.

When you pressed it, the source code for the currently running application would open. This was supposed to encourage tinkering with the software on your device! <3

I've been pondering what it would take to build that button on modern machines. Has anyone seen something like that?

(Prototype in next toot.)

A white-and-green laptop with funny antennae, that looks a mix of a toy/handheld console and a small laptop.Screenshot of the "View source" feature. A window showing Python source files has opened.
0
17
0
0
1
0
1
0
0

어린이를 알고 있다면 당연히 알겠지만, 어린이는 어른이 아닙니다. 몸은 말랑물렁하고 작고, 정신은 어른만큼 체계적이지 않으며 의존적입니다. 그리고 그게 당연할 시기입니다. 어른이 어떻게 어린이를 때린다는 선택지를 생각하는지 사고방식을 알 수 없을 만큼 어린이는 작고 말랑합니다. 어린이에게 폭력을 행사하면서 훈육이라고 할 때, 어린이는 무엇을 잘못했는지, 어떻게 해야 안 맞을지를 생각하고 있지 않습니다. 생각을 할 수 있는 상태가 아니며, 온전히 공포만 겪고 있습니다. 공포에 잠식당한 불안함은 결코 반성한 것이 아니며,

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t5ozhwxo6gwsfnr7w4x7aezz/post/3mf7yljv5k22t

0

RE: hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra/116074

TIL that I am a "keener" (not in any way derogatory), and so are some of my closest family and best friends. Thinking back it explains so much, from my academic failures -- I was held back a year in high school, then skipped a year, then dropped out -- to my anguish watching overachievers talk about their achievements. I'm only very slowly coming to the realization that not everyone is a keener and that's actually okay? I guess?

I still feel sorry for people who aren't keeners, though. Sorry, can't turn that off.

0
0
0
0

Optimize rendering with CSS Containment 📦

Isolate page subtrees from the rest of the DOM so browsers can optimize independently.
🚀 Better performance for large pages
🧩 Modular, reusable components
📐 Enables container queries

Learn more 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do

0
0
3
0
1
0
0

"One of the core goals of Wiki Workers United is to improve the Wikimedia Foundation's transparency and accountability toward the Wikimedia movement community.

This issue has been a long-standing concern for many workers at the Wikimedia Foundation, and a key reason for forming this union."

wikiworkersunited.org

via federation.p1k3.com/@brennen/1

0

(pls boost :boost_request:)

please recommend me the best TUI (terminal user interface) applications that you know of, and especially what design principles to keep in mind when building one.
as framework i'll most likely be using rattatui, and skim for fuzzy search.

some of the ones with good design that i can think of right now are:
- rmpc
- btop
- neovim (duh)
- calcure
- ranger

0
21
0

Feels like I constantly complain about this but man do I hate 2026-era web development stacks!!!

I often find myself looking at a project website that's serving less than a dozen static documents to the end user... why am I looking at Vite and a build process at all???

It's like looking at a McDonald's franchise supply chain (warehouses, trucks, repeatability) and saying, "Yes, that is the appropriate setup for my home kitchen, just in case I one day need to scale it to a worldwide franchise."

0
1
0
0

I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia.

But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.

0
4
0
0
0
0
0
0

apparently irc has spoiler tags now (e.g. /format this is a ||spoiler|| in halloy), something the (non-x) element still does not have

(yes i know technically you can do /html this is a <span data-mx-spoiler="reason">spoiler</span>, and i even memorized this to type it off the top of my head, but to the majority of people the feature might as well not exist)

0
0
0
0

Some friends and I have been exploring alternatives to Discord and Slack since both services are heading in intolerable directions.

We've looked at obvious choices like Matrix and Zulip, less obvious ones like Signal and Delta Chat, and some weird ones like the chat system built into the Fossil version control system.

I hoped Delta Chat would add channels, but no luck. I kind of expected we'd end up defaulting to Matrix.

But IRCv3 (Ergo / Goguma / Irctoday) is in the lead. Surprising.

0
1
0
0
0

If the federal government can say "we don't believe in a certain medical treatment, so we're pulling funding from all hospitals that provide that treatment"

And nobody stops them

How long until they do it for vaccines?

Y'all think trans people are the only ones losing our care. We're not. We're just one of the earlier dominos to pave the road for the rest of y'all.

0
2
0
1