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`

Nick Radcliffe @njr@mathstodon.xyz

4/26/2025, 9:30:04 AM

Public

A review of Blue Machine, by @helenczerski.

https://njr.prose.sh/blue-machine

One of the best books I have ever read.™

(Thanks @robpike for describing it as one of the best books *he’s* ever read, and alerting me to it, and to all Helen’s other excellent work.)

Cover of the UK Hardback edition of Blue Machine, by Helen Czerski. Feaures the oceans, as foreground, in blue, with the major currents shown in gold. The land is shown as background, in black. The projection is chosen to keep the oceans as the central focus, with the land split in various ways, as the ocean more often is, to allow the shape of the oceans to be more clearly seen.

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