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`

mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

1/14/2026, 10:09:35 PM

Public

On a day when I need to write MSBuild, there's this process that always happens. The first ten or fifteen minutes, I'm having *fun*. I'm doing something deleriously goofy. I'm *programming in XML*! I'm managing the impossible. I'm playing a Zachtronics game. And then I get to the second ten or fifteen minutes and the third. And the second or third hour.

And what I am feeling is kind of. Less "fun" at that point. More "Ah the sorrow of a thousand years! How it presses down upon my soul"

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