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`

✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark@treehouse.systems

2/1/2026, 11:00:40 AM

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one thing that i really dislike about Unix is the zealous adherence to semi-accidental design elements that ends up interfering with the utility of the underlying useful principle

for example:

early Unix could not run too complex a program due to hardware restrictions, so programs were composed using text streams
useful underlying principle: designing your applications for composition
zealous interpretation: your OS should have a toolkit of single-purpose programs communicating over text streams
design we could have had, but never will: applications that communicate using structured data, simplifying life for both programmers and end users

Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ @xgranade@wandering.shop

2/1/2026, 11:38:27 AM

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@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ By the time someone gets to needing hacks like changing $IFS at runtime, it should be obvious that something has gone *wildly* wrong with how small do-one-thing-well kinds of programs are glued together, and yet we're still having to deal with fucking Bash as some universal glue in 2026.

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