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`

hyperpape @hyperpape@hachyderm.io

3/7/2026, 6:46:23 PM

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@b0rkJulia Evans I remember a post (probably on Twitter) that said roughly “lots of debugging advice says to form a specific hypothesis and test it, but I often find that’s not how I operate, I’m often exploring what’s going on without having a specific hypothesis” and I thought it might have been your post.

Does that sound like a thing you said (not asking you to find the post for me). There’s a bit about exploring and figuring out one fact in The Pocket Guide to Debugging, but nothing quite like that.

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