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`

Julia Evans @b0rk@jvns.ca

1/28/2026, 7:34:30 PM

Public

today i'm back to reading this paper by @grimalkinaCat Hicks about contest cultures and brilliance traps in software and I'm going to try to live tweet some notes because reading papers is hard

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/2gej5_v2

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kulupu jyn @jyn@tech.lgbt

1/29/2026, 2:11:41 PM

Public

RE: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/115974397642744776

there's this very strange attitude i keep seeing over and over in the tech industry about how knowledge is good but learning is bad. it's the "no take only throw" meme but for training and senior developers, lol

thank you to Julia for reading and writing about this!