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`

Matt Wilcox @mattwilcox@mstdn.social

1/28/2026, 2:04:10 PM

Public

All coders:

Indent your code for readability. Use tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment.

Lay that shit out. Put it into columns and groupings.

We are humans, not robots. We scan things, we detect patterns and groupings. *All humans do this*. We pre-parse everything we see in 2D, including words and code, before we stream in data sequentially.

Do not do a robot's work for them. Do not be lazy.

I just fixed a bug because I re-formatted "computer code" so it was scannable.

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