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.

When I buy printer paper I pay like 20% more for the heavier weight stuff, partially because it doesn’t get wrinkly when I print photos but mostly because I find it fun that every time I hand someone a piece of paper they shake it back and forth and say “whoa nice paper”

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⭐ FediHired update

Hello friends, since it is the weekend, I got a chance to make some changes and a nice little UI & UX update is here✨

There's a brand new "Best Practices" section tailored to fediverse users. It's split into two sections:
1. For Job Seekers (use tags, monitor frequently, etc.)
2. For Hiring Managers (state communication preferences and mention important details, etc.)

🙏 Let me know what you think! Are there any other crucial tips you would add to these lists? Thanks, as always, for your encouragement and feedback.

Check it out: fedi.thatshubham.com
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original post at hachyderm.io/@pheonix/11604546

A screenshot of the FediHired website showing a newly designed "Best Practices & Tips" section. It features two pastel-colored cards with rounded corners. The left purple card lists tips for Job Seekers (Tag strategically, respect boundaries, stay active). The right mint-green card lists tips for hiring managers (state comm preferences, be upfront, use niche tags)
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I decided to move to another instance in Mastodon. I chose the primary one as it seems like it's the most bullet-proof choice.

My reasons for leaving my previous instance was not having faith in the servers being there in the future since the maintainer constantly mentioned monetary worries and prayed for donations "to keep the lights on".

Selfish as it is, I'm not interested in paying monthly subs or donating for social media usage, even if we would factor in privacy, ads and whatnot.

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Actually, I have an awful lot to hide.

Not because I am a criminal or a tax-evading billionaire, but because I'm a human being.

I am more than just a data mine. I refuse to be reduced to a source of digital commodities. I refuse to be valued at anyone's ad-revenue.

I have a right to decide what others should know about me. And I have a right to know what they will do with what they know.

That's why I have a lot to hide. Not because I must, but because I want to.
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I wish people would stop using the "but there are legitimate use cases" argument to recommend some slop machine to me.

I won't use it! I will stop listening to them! I won't even listen to anything else they might have to say unless they are able to make a convincing case how Slop-enAI (and its ilk) will ever stop roasting the planet, rotting our brains, and burning money in any other way than by going bankrupt.

I'm so exhausted by the Slop Mania!
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I wish people would stop using the "but there are legitimate use cases" argument to recommend some slop machine to me.

I won't use it! I will stop listening to them! I won't even listen to anything else they might have to say unless they are able to make a convincing case how Slop-enAI (and its ilk) will ever stop roasting the planet, rotting our brains, and burning money in any other way than by going bankrupt.

I'm so exhausted by the Slop Mania!
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another theoretical way to approach the same thing is to start with feeds. in bluesky, feeds are just paginated arrays of at:// records, but they always return posts. the next logic step (in RSC fashion) is to return SDUI trees instead of models. so you return array of <Post />s. then other types

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checking HN is not good for my mental health... i like to discover new software/tools/hacks/experiments etc and while that site was always problematic, now there's just too much clAuDe slop, and it is jarring to always read from the people grieving about the huge rug pull after decades of code crafting and from "build or get left behind" slopmaxxers in the same threads. is there a calm computer page out there where people still just do stuff by hand/head?

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so in a sense it's less of an elevator pitch and more like i couldn't resist following a theory to its logical conclusion: - in the Atmosphere, the data model is shared, so all apps are like isolated pieces of a single distributed "everything app" - so we should be able to compose ui across apps

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Adventures with usb-c monitor continue. I have acquired an adapter that splits and converts the usb-c into hdmi and usb. Sadly, I couldn't get myPaint to work on the MNT Pocket, something about glib. And I still need to get those wacom drivers to work on wayland. Yak shaving galore. But we have the picture.

a usb c display connected through a bunch of too long cables and adapters to mnt pocket
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あなたはシステム管理者から通常の講習を受けたはずです。
これは通常、以下の3点に要約されます:
#1) 近所のスーパーは24時間営業していること。
#2) 大人なのでごはんを食べたあとにアイスを食べてもよいこと。
#3) 大いなる力には大いなる責任が伴うこと。

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atproto in particular enables this because there's a shared data model to anchor everything around. one person can make widgets that deal with `app.bsky.feed.post`s, another person can make widgets that deal with `fm.teal.alpha.play`s. atproto blends data models of all apps, i'm trying to blend ui

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i'll say one nice thing about ai slop: the ai generated preview images continue to be a reliable indicator that there are other major issues with the article or video they represent. if the author couldn't be bothered to try to land a solid first impression, why, you can bet they didn't care enough to try and make anything else worth your time

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these remixable UIs are necessarily lower fidelity than official since you can't write real client code. so there's a bit of a "minecraft"y feeling to it. but it could be a good place to prototype or to create one-off UIs. (e.g. different kinds of thread viewing or navigation)

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for example if i want "Communities" on bluesky, i really have no way to contribute that aside from forking the client and tying it to my backend (which would do the indexing). in a world of remixable UIs, the barrier to augment products is much lower. you just recompose them with your features

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