洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

Hello! I'm Hong Minhee (洪 民憙), an open source software engineer in my late 30s, living in Seoul, Korea. I'm bisexual and non-binary (they/them), and an enthusiastic advocate of free/open source software and the fediverse.

I work full-time on @fedify, an ActivityPub server framework in TypeScript, funded by @sovtechfund. I'm also the creator of @hollo, a single-user ActivityPub microblog; @botkit, an ActivityPub bot framework; Hackers' Pub, a fediverse platform for software developers; and LogTape, a logging library for JavaScript and TypeScript.

I have a long interest in East Asian languages (CJK) and Unicode. I post mostly in English here, though occasionally in Japanese or in mixed-script Korean (國漢文混用體), a traditional writing style that interleaves Chinese characters with the native Korean alphabet. Wanting to write in that style was actually one of the reasons I joined the fediverse. Feel free to talk to me in English, Korean, Japanese, or even Literary Chinese!

#introduction

はじめまして！ソウル在住の30代後半のオープンソースソフトウェアエンジニア、洪 民憙（ホン・ミンヒ）と申します。バイセクシュアル（bisexual）・ノンバイナリー（non-binary）で、自由・オープンソースソフトウェア（F/OSS）とフェディバース（fediverse）の熱烈な支持者です。

STF（@sovtechfund）の支援を受け、TypeScript用ActivityPubサーバーフレームワーク「@fedify」の開発に専念しています。他にも、おひとり様向けのActivityPubマイクロブログ「@hollo」、ActivityPubボットフレームワーク「@botkit」、ソフトウェア開発者向けフェディバースプラットフォームHackers' Pub、JavaScript・TypeScript用ロギングライブラリLogTapeなどの制作者でもあります。

東アジア言語（いわゆるCJK）とUnicodeにも興味があります。このアカウントでは主に英語で投稿していますが、時々日本語や国漢文混用体（漢字ハングル混じり文）の韓国語でも書いています。実はこの文体で書きたくてフェディバースを始めた、という経緯もあります。日本語、英語、韓国語、漢文でも気軽に話しかけてください！

#自己紹介

安寧(안녕)하세요! 저는 서울에 살고 있는 30代(대) 後半(후반)의 오픈 소스 소프트웨어 엔지니어 洪民憙(홍민희)입니다. 兩性愛者(양성애자)(bisexual)이자 논바이너리(non-binary)이며, 自由(자유)·오픈 소스 소프트웨어(F/OSS)와 聯合宇宙(연합우주)(fediverse)의 熱烈(열렬)한 支持者(지지자)이기도 합니다.

STF(@sovtechfund)의 支援(지원)을 받아 TypeScript用(용) ActivityPub 서버 프레임워크 @fedify 開發(개발)에 專業(전업)으로 任(임)하고 있습니다. 그 外(외)에도 싱글 유저用(용) ActivityPub 마이크로블로그 @hollo, ActivityPub 봇 프레임워크 @botkit, 소프트웨어 開發者(개발자)를 위한 聯合宇宙(연합우주) 플랫폼 Hackers' Pub, JavaScript·TypeScript用(용) 로깅 라이브러리 LogTape 等(등)의 製作者(제작자)이기도 합니다.

東(동)아시아 言語(언어)(이른바 CJK)와 Unicode에도 關心(관심)이 많습니다. 이 計定(계정)에서는 主(주)로 英語(영어)로 포스팅하지만, 때때로 日本語(일본어)나 國漢文混用體(국한문 혼용체) 韓國語(한국어)로도 씁니다. 聯合宇宙(연합우주)에 오게 된 動機(동기) 中(중) 하나가 바로 國漢文混用體(국한문 혼용체)로 글을 쓰고 싶었기 때문이기도 하고요. 韓國語(한국어), 英語(영어), 日本語(일본어), 아니면 漢文(한문)으로도 말을 걸어주세요!

#툿친소 #연친소 #별친소 #자기소개

BOJ (Baekjoon Online Judge), a big competitive programming site in Korea, says it's shutting down on April 28. It has been around since 2010 and, as far as I know, has mostly been one person's work the whole time. The notice doesn't say why. The rumor is that the server bills finally got too high.

What caught my eye is that some people in the Korean #fediverse, including @2chanhaeng, are already talking about whether a federated replacement could work, with #ActivityPub coordinating things and volunteer nodes doing the judging. I have no idea if that can really work, since timing differences between machines are a serious problem in competitive programming, and I'm not the right person to help with it. Still, I like that the first reaction was to try building something.

The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client via @aks https://lobste.rs/s/7lmezq #web
https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/the-fediverse-deserves-a-dumb-graphical-client.md

If you tend to win most arguments, you're probably either very smart or very self-righteous. And since the two aren't mutually exclusive, both can be true at the same time.

The #CFP for the Fediverse & Social Web track at COSCUP 2026 (Taipei, Aug 8–9) is now open! If you're working on #ActivityPub, the #fediverse, or anything in the open social web space, we'd love to hear from you. The deadline is May 9. #COSCUP is free to attend.

👉 https://hackers.pub/@fedidevkr/2026/fediverse-social-web-track-at-coscup-2026-cfp

(Boosts appreciated!)

#SocialWeb #fedidev

Read it in other languages: 日本語 (Japanese), 한국어 (Korean).

FediDev KR and FediLUG (Japan) are pleased to announce the Fediverse & Social Web track at COSCUP 2026, and invite participants to submit proposals for talks.

COSCUP (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users, and Promoters) is a free, community-run open source conference held annually in Taipei, Taiwan. Think FOSDEM, but in East Asia. This year it takes place August 8–9 at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, and is co-hosted with UbuCon Asia 2026.

The Fediverse & Social Web track runs for a full day, six hours in total. It is the first dedicated fediverse track at a major open source conference in East Asia, and we hope it becomes a regular gathering point for the fediverse community in the region.

Format

The default talk length is 30 minutes. If you need more or less time, note your preferred length when submitting.

Topics

We welcome proposals on anything related to the fediverse and the open social web, including:

• Implementations of ActivityPub or related protocols
• Clients for ActivityPub-enabled software
• Libraries, toolkits, and frameworks for fediverse development
• Supporting services: search, onboarding, moderation tooling
• Instance administration and operations
• Governance, policy, and the social dimensions of running federated communities
• The broader open social web and interoperability

Important dates

• Submission opens: March 28, 2026
• Submission deadline: May 9, 2026 (AoE)
• Acceptance notifications: June 9, 2026
• Conference: August 8–9, 2026

Submissions

Submit proposals at https://pretalx.coscup.org/coscup-2026/cfp. Select Fediverse & Social Web from the track dropdown.

You can write your proposal in English or Chinese. COSCUP publishes session descriptions bilingually in English and Chinese, but that translation happens after acceptance; you don't need to provide both languages when submitting.

All sessions will be recorded and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. If your talk contains material that cannot be recorded or released under those terms, please note this in your submission.

Code of conduct

All speakers and attendees are expected to follow the COSCUP Code of Conduct.

Contact

Questions about the track, topics, or the fediverse in general are welcome at contact@fedidev.kr or @fedidevkr on the fediverse.

#Optique 1.0.0 is out! If you build #CLI tools with #TypeScript, it might be worth a look.

I started it because I wanted a TypeScript CLI parser that felt more like optparse-applicative than the usual builder-style APIs. You build up small typed parsers, compose them, and TypeScript infers the result. It handles subcommands, option dependencies, shell completion, and man pages, and it runs on #Deno, #Node.js, and #Bun.

For 1.0 I added @optique/env, so env vars can fill in missing flags, and @optique/inquirer, so missing values can fall back to Inquirer.js prompts. I also cleaned up a lot of awkward API edges and fixed a long backlog of completion bugs across five shells.

Packages are on JSR and npm.

https://github.com/dahlia/optique/discussions/796

Contrary to seemingly popular belief, FediMod FIRES and the protocol I created for it is so much more than just "blocklist synchronisation"

It's designed to give moderation teams choice in what they pull from providers and how that's applied to their server. It's designed to give finer-grained moderation control than "silence or suspend" across a wide array of entities.

Thinking of FediMod FIRES as just a blocklist synchronisation tool is like thinking of a computer as a just a modern typewriter. Sure you can just do what that original thing did, but it's capable of so much more.

For example, it's possible to share moderation data on individual bad actors and also on email domains (currently not in the shipped version but pretty straightforward to add). In the future it'll also support more entity types like Hashtags, Links, and possibly image hashes.

Domain blocks are just the tip of the iceberg of what FediMod FIRES can do.

#Optique 1.0.0을 릴리스했습니다.

Haskell의 optparse-applicative 스타일의 #TypeScript #CLI 파서가 필요해서 만들었습니다. 작은 타입 파서들을 조합하면 TypeScript가 결과 타입을 자동으로 추론합니다. 서브커맨드, 옵션 간 의존성, 셸 완성, 맨(man) 페이지 생성 등을 지원하고, #Deno, #Node.js, #Bun 등에서 동작합니다.

이번 버전에서는 @optique/env (환경 변수 폴백) 패키지와 @optique/inquirer (Inquirer.js 프롬프트 폴백) 패키지를 추가했습니다. API의 어색한 부분들도 많이 정리하고, 다섯 가지 셸의 완성 스크립트 버그도 한꺼번에 잡았습니다.

JSR과 npm에서 설치하실 수 있습니다.

https://github.com/dahlia/optique/discussions/796

#Optique 1.0.0 is out! If you build #CLI tools with #TypeScript, it might be worth a look.

I started it because I wanted a TypeScript CLI parser that felt more like optparse-applicative than the usual builder-style APIs. You build up small typed parsers, compose them, and TypeScript infers the result. It handles subcommands, option dependencies, shell completion, and man pages, and it runs on #Deno, #Node.js, and #Bun.

For 1.0 I added @optique/env, so env vars can fill in missing flags, and @optique/inquirer, so missing values can fall back to Inquirer.js prompts. I also cleaned up a lot of awkward API edges and fixed a long backlog of completion bugs across five shells.

Packages are on JSR and npm.

https://github.com/dahlia/optique/discussions/796

Nearly 10,000 organizations, institutions, companies, and other official groups with a fediverse presence recorded on Wikidata!

https://data.stefanbohacek.com/projects/fediverse-accounts

#fediverse #wikidata

We’re happy to share that Mastodon has been awarded a service agreement from the Sovereign Tech Fund @sovtechfund 🎉

This covers five major initiatives through 2026 and 2027. We are very grateful for this support. Read about the details in our blog post.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/

I think I'm pretty near a beta release for Gitte (a GNOME Git GUI). While I have plans for the future, I think the basics are covered (besides pull - I want to have that for the first release). What do you people think?

https://codeberg.org/ckruse/Gitte

#git #gui #gnome #linux

GIMP 창시자들이 CockroachDB 메인테이너라는 사실을 믿지 못하는 펀

Hey. Nations are made up. Citizenship is made up. Naturalization is made up. We have these things because this is the social contract we grew over hundreds of years.

The idea of an immigrant becoming a citizen is no less legitimate than the idea of someone being born a citizen. They are both and equally legal constructs that exist because things were worse without them.

If an immigrant can be denaturalized, then anyone the government wants to be rid of can be denaturalized.

@jnkrtech On CJK hashtags from scratch, I honestly don't know. My suspicion is that hashtags may be the wrong unit in the first place. Some kind of topic grouping might fit better. But once you go there, you're getting uncomfortably close to a recommender, and that's exactly the sort of thing a lot of people came here to get away from.

The ML idea is interesting, but I think it would be a very hard sell even if it were strictly opt-in. On the fediverse, once you put “ML” on the label, half the objections start writing themselves.

I think the bigger issue is that hashtags are partly compensating for weak search. And weak search is not just a bug. In some corners it is very much the point. A lot of fediverse people want discovery to stay limited because it keeps spaces smaller and less searchable by strangers. So this stops being just a technical proposal pretty quickly. It turns into an argument about what the fediverse is for.

Servo 0.1.0 is out! 🚀
This is our first release available in crates.io and our first LTS version
https://servo.org/blog/2026/04/13/servo-0.1.0-release/

@nicemicro Fair point on the particles. I was too narrow there.

On spaces, Chinese and Japanese did not end up without them out of stubbornness. They developed ways of reading that do not depend on spaces the way Latin-script languages often do. Most of the research people cite on spacing and reading speed comes from alphabetic languages, so it does not automatically apply to CJK. Treating that as “stubbornness” just assumes Latin-script conventions are the norm.

The hashtag friction is real regardless.

@mariusor I'm thinking about how to have users input them! Yeah, rendering them is relatively straightforward.

@bootlegrydia That sounds a good idea! I definitely will implement that syntax in the platforms I'm building!

@HaTetsu @hongminhee It also looks bad when the message itself is sometimes ridden with hashtags.

@hongminhee It's really a problem in any language with word inflection… And even when writing in English, I think more people on the Fediverse have been switching to mostly putting hastags at the end in order to not break the flow of posts so much (screen readers have been used as an argument for that, too, not without reason)

The hashtag problem in CJK languages

I keep thinking about how fediverse hashtag advice assumes English.

In English, you can drop #coffee into a sentence and it still reads fine. The spacing already does most of the work.

In Korean, Japanese, or Chinese, that feels much less natural. Chinese and Japanese have no spaces between words. Korean does, but particles and endings stick to the word, so putting a hashtag mid-sentence often just looks awkward or breaks the flow.

So people tend to dump hashtags at the end, or skip them.

That changes the usual “follow hashtags to find your community” advice. If people tag less, there's just less there to find. And the fediverse's discovery is already shaky enough without that.

Not sure whether it's a UI problem or just hashtags fitting space-delimited languages better. But it seems like one of those small frictions that makes the fediverse harder to get into for CJK users.

@lutindiscret That's a good point, and honestly something I hadn't thought of!

Though hashtags seem to be used much less in the Korean fediverse. Part of it might be linguistic: Korean word boundaries don't align neatly with spaces the way they do in English, so weaving hashtags into running text feels awkward. They tend to get appended at the end, if used at all, which probably means fewer people are tagging in the first place.

@raika_amaris Thank you! From what I know, she's into amusing anecdotes, socio-political discourse, animal content, and crafts; the last one especially, since it's her profession. I'll pass along your recommendations.

Though I suspect part of the problem is that the Korean fediverse is just so small. Even if she finds great accounts to follow in English, she'd still be navigating a space that doesn't quite feel like hers.

Hackers Pub Android 앱 v1.3.0 릴리즈 완료!

자세한 내용은 여기서 확인해주세요. https://github.com/hackers-pub/android/releases/tag/v1.3.0

피드백은 타래로 부탁드립니다. 기여해주신 dalinaum님 감사합니다.

@ayo Yeah, that's a great idea!