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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After Madblog, how many of you would like #ActivityPub and #Indieweb support to come to GPSTracker too?

This is an idea that I’ve been flirting with for a while.

Like many Millennials, 10-15 years ago I was into the Foursquare-mania. It was the age where pubs would offer discount to their Foursquare mayor and where people used to share their Foursquare stats and compete on how many badges they had collected.

Then Foursquare decided to pivot its platform towards the business-side instead, the check-in app was spun off into Swarm, it gradually lost users but it gained trackers, and by now I think only 1-2 of my contacts (out of >100 in the golden age) still use it.

By now I don’t think anyone has filled that gap; there isn’t any social media built around networks that share and recommend their check-ins.

#GPSTracker already supports a lot of tracking, timeline and check-in features, synchronization of geo events with mobile devices, and even stats with arbitrary aggregations (by country, time range, city, region etc.). Plus some features that Foursquare never implemented (like searching for checkins on the timeline by simply selecting an area on the map).

#Microformats already support location tags through the h-adr class, although they are rarely used. Both #Webmentions and ActivityPub could send check-in activities as permalinks to pages with those tags. And the #OpenStreetMap APIs could do the heavylifting of retrieving POIs in in a certain lat/long box.

The only hurdle would be implementing the protocols under the hood, as both the Webmentions and Pubby libraries are in #Python while #GPSTracker is in #Typescript. But it could be a good chance to start writing multi-language bindings for those libraries.

Let me know if it’s something that you would use, or even self-host, and if you know if there’s anything in the Fediverse that already fills this niche.

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The journalists who spent time and energy learning Banksy’s identity, then published the details, suck.

They suck.

They could have spent that time and energy exposing corrupt billionaires and politicians.

They could have minded their business and let us continue to enjoy the fun of not knowing.

Those journalists are conscience free, romance free.

They suck.

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“양심상 이란 전쟁 지지 못해”…‘트럼프 충성파’ 미 대테러국장 전격 사퇴 2026-03-18 00:18 ... 미국 국가대테러센터(NCTC) 수장이 “이란은 임박한 위협이 아니었다”며 이란 전쟁을 지지할 수 없다는 공개서한을 남기고 전격 사퇴했다. 대통령의 수석 대테러 보좌관이자 정보공동체 고위 인사가 전쟁의 핵심 명분인 ‘임박한 위협’을 정면으로 부인하면서 행정부의 전쟁 명분은...

“양심상 이란 전쟁 지지 못해”…‘트럼프 충성파’ 미 ...

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今天是我去台湾的日子。
我计划去台湾和香港,一共玩大概20天。
该睡觉了!大家晚安!
早上五点半就要起床呢!

오늘은 드디어 대만으로 출국합니다.
대만이랑 홍콩을 갈 생각이고, 합쳐서 약 20일 동안 머물러요.
먼저 잘게요! 모두들 굿밤!
아침 5시 반에 일어납니다!

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이 변호사는 지 부장판사가 작년 3월 윤석열 전 대통령의 구속기간을 '날'로 계산해야 할 법적 의무가 있는데도 '시간' 단위로 계산해 잘못된 석방을 했다며 그를 고발했다. 등록 2026-03-17 18:00

지귀연도 '법왜곡' 고발…서울경찰청 ...

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이 변호사는 지 부장판사가 작년 3월 윤석열 전 대통령의 구속기간을 '날'로 계산해야 할 법적 의무가 있는데도 '시간' 단위로 계산해 잘못된 석방을 했다며 그를 고발했다. 등록 2026-03-17 18:00

지귀연도 '법왜곡' 고발…서울경찰청 ...

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I just learned a new nightmare that will also prevent me ever moving back to America.

In Victoria, a used mattress has to be clearly labeled as such by law at sale.

In many American states, mattress stores can simply reupholster a used mattress and sell it as brand new.

I may never sleep again.

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