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

@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!

@hongminhee #GetYourPartnerToTheFediverse could be a campaign 😅

My spouse still uses X heavily. They don't like Elon Musk either, but they check in on the fediverse occasionally and always come back saying the same thing: it feels like a space only for software engineers.

They're right, and I don't have a good answer for it.

You can say it's network effects, and that's part of it. But that still doesn't explain why the place feels closed off even when people do try it. X has an algorithm that surfaces content from people you don't follow, so even if you open it at random, there's always some shared background chatter: memes, game reactions, celebrity nonsense, whatever people are mad about that day. The fediverse has none of that. You see what the people you've deliberately followed have posted. So when non-technical people do show up, they often land in silence. And a lot of what they do see is fediverse talk, Linux talk, ActivityPub talk. Which is fine for me—I spend most of my waking hours thinking about ActivityPub—but I can see why it would feel alienating to someone who just wants to talk about films or cooking or K-dramas.

Then I look at Japan and think maybe this isn't impossible after all. Misskey and its forks developed a culture that pulled in illustrators, anime fans, people who had no interest in self-hosting or federation protocols. The reactions help. Some instances feel playful instead of dutiful. That seems to matter. I'm not sure exactly what made that work, or whether anyone could build that on purpose.

This feels especially hard in Korean. The pool is smaller, and communities like K-pop fandoms or webtoon readers have so much gravity on X that there's no obvious reason for them to leave. And even if some of them did, discovery is broken enough that they might not find each other in time—enough people that the place stops feeling empty.

When my spouse says the fediverse feels like it's for software engineers, I mostly just sit there, because I don't know how to tell them they're wrong.

@syobon すでにご存知かもしれませんが、snac2という実装がすでにあります。

@antfu.me Congratulations on your wedding!

What is a property? https://lobste.rs/s/ogz2ro #haskell #plt
https://alperenkeles.com/posts/what-is-a-property/

@threkk Yeah, basically. I could fork it, but PyPI is the annoying part. I'd have to go through PEP 541 to get the package names back, and I'm not sure it's worth the effort when I don't use Python anymore.

About ten years ago I helped build a few Python packages at work, and we released them as open source. They ended up getting real users.

Most of us eventually left. The company changed hands a few times, then got folded into a Java-heavy engineering org. The GitHub org and PyPI packages were basically orphaned. Nobody I worked with there is still around.

Those repos still get PRs. I can review them, but I lost merge access years ago. I've moved on from Python too, so I'm not looking to take them back.

It's bittersweet to watch something we built still attract contributions when nobody left can merge them.

Brocards for vulnerability triage

https://blog.yossarian.net/2026/04/11/Brocards-for-vulnerability-triage

#security #oss

I hold many controversial opinions. For example, I think that a process segfaulting inside of a VM should not be able to take down the host.

Unfortunately, I use macOS. Where it can. And does. To my chagrin.

Rust is Just a Tool https://lobste.rs/s/4kticv #rust
https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/260204.html

Mastodon.py version 2.2.0 is now out! 🦣🐍

There's a quite a few bug fixes (thank you to everyone who reported and/or fixed something), and support for 4.5 functionality: Quotes as well as async refreshing! Also quite a bit of additional testing, coverage is now above 90%.

As usual, please report any bugs you see, I should have the time to do quick fixes and maintenance release in the near future hopefully.

* Changelog: https://github.com/halcy/Mastodon.py/releases/tag/v2.2.0
* Docs: https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/v2.2.0/
* PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/Mastodon.py/

#mastodev #mastodon #python #mastodonpy

#Plushtodon

Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C# via @hongminhee https://lobste.rs/s/uahlqe #databases #dotnet
https://nockawa.github.io/blog/why-building-database-engine-in-csharp/

If crates.io is public infrastructure and it's chronically underfunded, then “audit your own dependencies” is the wrong takeaway. It shifts the cost from the companies that benefit most onto individual teams. A better response is collective funding for crates.io's security work, not making every team repeat the same audit work on its own.

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/no-one-owes-you-supply-chain-security/

No one owes you supply-chain security https://lobste.rs/s/cxwidw #security
https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/no-one-owes-you-supply-chain-security/

Fedify ActivityPub server framework

A #TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by #ActivityPub and other standards, so-called #fediverse

https://fedify.dev

This is my take on AI's climate impact. https://dev.to/dcc/the-honest-climate-case-for-ai-5hg5

New from me: Fediverse Report #158 - What is Mastodon for?

On the recent discourse about the Mastodon becoming an echo chamber and the community's anti-ai sentiment, and how the fundamental tension in that @Mastodon allows for people to create communities and 'place' on the instance level, but people experience community and culture on the federation level

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr158-what-is-mastodon-for/

Hackers Pub Android v1.2.0 Released!

https://github.com/hackers-pub/android/releases/tag/v1.2.0

@dansup Congratulations!

FediCon 2026 will be part of FOSSY.

We are still trying to figure out the exact days for FediCon @ FOSSY. But, it will be 2 of the days between August 6th and 9th.

We are also planning to do a joint session between FediCon @ FOSSY in Vancouver with the Fediverse & Social Web track at COSCUP in Taiwan.

#FediCon #FediCon2026 #FOSSY #FOSSY2026 #COSCUP #COSCUP2026

@angelthorns Yeah, that's one of my goals!

@yyj1983 我来自汉阳。啊，现在都叫首尔吧？我是88年出生的。

@yyj1983 是的，我是韩国人。我年纪有点大，小时候学过汉字，所以也能稍微读写一点中文。不过口语不行。因为韩语没有声调，所以普通话的声调很难。