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`

Kartik Agaram @akkartik@merveilles.town

6/1/2025, 3:42:16 AM

Public

Ancient Northern peoples had dozens or hundreds of words for snow and ice because they were intimately familiar with it.

Ancient programmers from the twenty-first century had many terms for good software:

* boring tech
* robust-first
* humane
* indie
* small/smol
* sustainable
* permacomputing
* spartan
* cold-blooded software
* tadi
* freewheeling
* tomodashi

But these were terms born from absence, endless attempts to escape the desert their society found itself in.

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