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`

Glyph @glyph@mastodon.social

11/20/2025, 7:22:37 PM

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@yosh @mcc @blyxyasAlejandra Gonzalez I definitely had some "unwrap bad" thoughts at the beginning of this (although much more nuanced than that) but in addition to the somewhat rust-specific things I've learned as a result of the Discourse, I've also realized that there's a big plane-with-holes.jpg problem here: when a significant software system outage involving errors has occurred, the error-handling mechanism of the programming language it's written in will be implicated, regardless of how good it is

mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

11/20/2025, 7:23:42 PM

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@glyph @yosh @blyxyasAlejandra Gonzalez I mean I thing the problem is more insidious than this-- in a failure analysis with many steps, there will be a tendency to focus on the simplest thing that appears in the failure chain, whether or not it actually failed in this case, because it's the one thing everyone can have an opinion on. It's a special case of the bikeshed principle

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