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 Lewis @semiprime@mastodon.online

9/18/2025, 7:26:14 AM

Public

Thirty years ago today, on 18th September 1995, I started working at #Psion. I was put on the "Protea" project: a new 32-bit PDA and a portable operating system written in C++ named EPOC32.
We didn't have hardware yet, but Colly Myers had implemented enough that we had a basic OS running on top of WindowsNT.
Protea would be released in 1997 as the Psion Series 5. The software division of Psion became Symbian, and EPOC32 became SymbianOS – you might have run it if you had a pre-iPhone smartphone.

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