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`

Gordon Messmer @gordonmessmer@fosstodon.org

3/9/2026, 8:14:49 AM

Public

As the joke goes, "There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."

In truth, one of most difficult things in software development might be comments, and the more experience you have developing software, the harder it becomes.

https://codeberg.org/gordonmessmer/dev-blog/src/branch/main/comments-are-hard.md

dev-blog/comments-are-hard.md at main

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