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`

David Beazley @dabeaz@mastodon.social

12/5/2025, 6:40:02 PM

Public

Oh wow. We were just talking about the "Law of Demeter" in compilers this morning and then that Cloudflare outage report just dropped in our lap. https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/

For context: writing a compiler potentially involves a lot of complicated data structure manipulation and it's really easy to get buried in too many layers of nested attribute lookups on objects. Doing that often indicates an abstraction wart of some sort.

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. The incident was not caused by an attack and was due to configuration changes being applied to attempt to mitigate a recent industry-wide vulnerability impacting React Server Components.

blog.cloudflare.com · The Cloudflare Blog

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