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`

Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺 @zekjur@mas.to

7/8/2025, 7:02:34 PM

Public

I spent literally hours trying to make https://layout-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/example/deep_layout_parsing/index.html work in virtualenv so that I can OCR text from newspaper article scans

Eventually, I got it to work (with lots of pinning) and thought: this will be a pain to productionize for my #NixOS server! …but ultimately I realized all packages I needed were actually already packaged in nixpkgs! 😅

Now with a flake.nix like https://gist.github.com/stapelberg/45bd82dec9d299fc1cf481c07f0c051d, I have a reproducible (stable!) way of running this program 🥳

screenshot of a newspaper article and how my flake.nix can be run to run the demo code for layoutparser + tesseract

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