Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Richard Schneeman @Schneems@ruby.social

9/25/2025, 1:31:03 PM

Public

Are there software efforts that help people **see** problems like unicode "zero width space" or lookalike letters in a terminal?

Like, if directory contents with this were printed saying "could not find requirements.txt" it would ideally be clear "oh, I have a character there that's unintentional" https://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect?s=%E2%80%8Brequirements.txt

Unicode character inspector: requirements.txt

Inspecting UTF-8 encoding of: requirements.txt

apps.timwhitlock.info · apps.timwhitlock.info

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