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`

Dan Sugalski @wordshaper@weatherishappening.network

2/13/2026, 8:03:45 PM

Public

People: I won't use emacs, elisp does exactly what I tell it but I don't understand

Also people: I won't use regular expressions, they do exactly what I say but I don't understand

Also also people: I will write a small novel of instructions to my LLM-based editor and it'll do some semi-random weird shit but that's 100% OK, at least it's not elisp or regexes and deterministic behaviour's overrated anyway!

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