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`

Thomas 🔭🕹️ @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

2/17/2026, 2:23:18 AM

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When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

A bizarre AI-generated “flow chart” of how supposedly a git repo works; but it’s full of nonsense, spelling errors and the overall Y-axis is labeled as “Timn” in the wrong direction

If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://hachyderm.io/users/thomasfuchs/statuses/116083589029041168 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange

2/17/2026, 9:13:47 AM

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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116083589029041168

There’s a lot of mockery, but if I could apply (sorry, ‘morge’) my fixes retroactively before the bugs are discovered, that would be a great improvement over my current process.