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`

Chris Siebenmann @cks@mastodon.social

9/28/2025, 12:57:01 AM

Public

Cursed idea: serve a Git repository as pages and use the Git repository revision as the ETag value for all of the pages. Hey, it's perfectly specification valid AFAIK, and you can just cache or store the current revision on startup (or checkout). Cryptographically hashing your file contents? Inspecting stat() results and doing things with them? Why bother. The Git revision's right there.

I'd say "free to a good home" but this idea is definitely not going to a *good* home. A fun one, maybe.

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