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`

Jeff Atwood @codinghorror@infosec.exchange

7/17/2025, 1:11:11 AM

Public

I can prove this, thanks to my mom, who kept this stuff and sent it to me. Yes, I did work at Safeway as a bagger, then a cashier, both in high school and college. https://blog.codinghorror.com/stay-gold-america/

"During college, I worked at Safeway as a part-time cashier, earning the federal minimum wage, scraping together whatever money I could through government Pell grants, scholarships, and other part-time work to pay my college tuition. Even with lower in-state tuition, it was rocky. Sometimes I could barely manage tuition payments. And that was in 1992, when tuition was only $3,000 per year. It is now $23,000 per year. College tuition at a state school increased by 8 times over the last 30 years. These huge cost increases for healthcare, education, and housing are not compatible with the American Dream."

the text "During college, I worked at Safeway as a part-time cashier" is highlighted in yellow, as if from a highlighter.

from https://blog.codinghorror.com/stay-gold-america/

Original Safeway employee name badge from 1988-ish with the name "JEFF", held in a hand

"Twenty-four years ago today, I had a very bad day.

On August 8, 1988, I was a senior in high school. I was working my after school and weekend job at Safeway as a cashier, when the store manager suddenly walked over and said I better stop ringing up customers and talk to my mother on the store phone right now. Mom told me to come home immediately because, well, there were police at the front door asking for me with some legal papers in hand."

with the text "I was a senior in high school. I was working my after school and weekend job at Safeway as a cashier" highlighted in yellow 'marker'

https://blog.codinghorror.com/i-was-a-teenage-hacker/

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