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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Important South Seattle PSA: someone at Rainier Beach High School has been diagnosed with Tuberculosis 😬 (hopefully this isn't like the time that casino lady had it and kept dodging treatment!)

youtube.com/watch?v=fJ4aYlg7ZP0

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julian shared the below article:

Reduced engagement due to Article type

julian @julian@activitypub.space

<p>NodeBB federates out <code>Note</code> or <code>Article</code> depending on the length of the content. While this by-and-large works, the article logic does not encourage as much discussion as expected because a <code>summary</code> is generated so as to provide something for microblog-style software to show (otherwise, it would only show the title (<code>name</code>) and a URL to the forum.)</p> <p>That summary is limited to a maximum or 500 characters, ending at the last full detected sentence.</p> <p>When composing a long topic, 500 characters may not be enough to fully introduce the topic and engage users. This lowers click-through rates.</p> <p>I expressed my frustration about this online to <a href="https://activitypub.space/user/thisismissem">@<bdi>thisismissem</bdi></a> and suggested that I might just revert back to sending the entire post content in <code>summary</code>. This would violate <a href="https://w3id.org/fep/b2b8" rel="nofollow ugc">FEP b2b8's recommendation</a> that summary be a maximum of 500 characters:</p> <blockquote> <p>It should be a maximum of about 500 characters; a few sentences; or a short paragraph.</p> </blockquote> <p>After consultation with Matt Baer of Writefreely (<a href="https://writing.exchange/@matt">@<bdi>matt@writing.exchange</bdi></a>), he suggested the following changes:[...]</p>

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이정도면 그냥 무식한 거 아닌가 도대체 어떻게 해야 저 무식한 학생 머릿속 "노동자"라는 단어의 정의가 속칭 "막노동, 노가다"(=블루칼라 일용직) 하는 사람으로만 설정되어 있는건지 모르겠음 공교육을 안받은건지 공교육이 놓친건지

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:scadruxaokmw4u7hymfft7ys/post/3mfomqk44fk2z

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How many people know that was co-founded by a black man, Mike Little?

Or that he's from the north of England? A self-taught coder from , just south of ? Or that he never received so much as a share, cent or job offer from the $7bn+ valued Automattic after spending five months working exclusively with Matt Mullenweg on the B2 fork?

After @bevangelistJohn Bevan 🤔 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ✊ told me about @mikelittle I interviewed him for a documentary I never got round to making. Back then I was left with two certainties: he's Wozniak to Mullenweg's Jobs. Among other things he added the one-click upgrade that's been central to WP's bonkers 45%-of-the-web-success. And he's one of the nicest people I've ever interviewed, which is also bonkers given that he not only didn't share in WP's financial success, but that he's barely known.

But he should be - so, better late than never - please meet , perhaps the most-influential-least-known person in 25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-

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I read another tech take just now that essentially says

"everything the [aerospace|car|construction|...] industry has learned the hard way with regards to designing com0lex systems safely is wrong, so let's just throw those lessons away"

It hurts in how mind-numbingly stupid that is.

There are differences, sure. But the differences people think of as truths are largely wrong. Most notably, there's nothing intrinsically different about a complex system involving tonnes of metal...

... suspended in air, and a complex system consisting of globally orchestrated microservices, *as a system*.

The problem is, people in tech don't tend to have a systems thinking background. It's something they're thrust into and figure out, and that's part of why we chase silver bullets: someone threw something against a wall that stuck long enough, and we call it best practice. Until it fails, and the next accidentally discovered thing takes its place.

Mind you, the major difference...

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For the Y2K, we weren't allowed to change any of the original code running on the AS/400. That code was always off-limit, and had existed since the 1970s as far as I know.

We created an intermediate tool that would look at transactions going into and out of the database.

When data was coming out, we'd convert the dates to 4-digit years. Then when data was going in, we'd convert 4-digit years back to 2-digit years.

I have no idea if 26 years later that is still in place. I suspect so. But the thought that banks will authorize AI and "vibe coding" to magically replace all this off-limit code running on the back end is hard to believe.

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Reduced engagement due to Article type

julian @julian@activitypub.space

<p>NodeBB federates out <code>Note</code> or <code>Article</code> depending on the length of the content. While this by-and-large works, the article logic does not encourage as much discussion as expected because a <code>summary</code> is generated so as to provide something for microblog-style software to show (otherwise, it would only show the title (<code>name</code>) and a URL to the forum.)</p> <p>That summary is limited to a maximum or 500 characters, ending at the last full detected sentence.</p> <p>When composing a long topic, 500 characters may not be enough to fully introduce the topic and engage users. This lowers click-through rates.</p> <p>I expressed my frustration about this online to <a href="https://activitypub.space/user/thisismissem">@<bdi>thisismissem</bdi></a> and suggested that I might just revert back to sending the entire post content in <code>summary</code>. This would violate <a href="https://w3id.org/fep/b2b8" rel="nofollow ugc">FEP b2b8's recommendation</a> that summary be a maximum of 500 characters:</p> <blockquote> <p>It should be a maximum of about 500 characters; a few sentences; or a short paragraph.</p> </blockquote> <p>After consultation with Matt Baer of Writefreely (<a href="https://writing.exchange/@matt">@<bdi>matt@writing.exchange</bdi></a>), he suggested the following changes:[...]</p>

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