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Aurélien Gâteau

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Aurélien Gâteau's personal blog at agateau.com covers programming and games. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “The gentle art of making patches easier to review”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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22mentions?
7HN people?
2013–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2021

Hi I am Aurélien. I create games, desktop and command-line apps.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The gentle art of making patches easier to review
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-08
  2. The story behind the Gwenview (KDE image viewer) name
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. I hit a similarly puzzling bug a few years ago in Gwenview (an image viewer) when a user reported it could not open some PNG files of a certain width. I wrote about it here: https://agateau.com/2012/qt-image-decoders-stepping-on-each-...

    Comment linking /2012/qt-image-decoders-stepping-on-each-others/

    on ““My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)”
  2. Submitted Donation page "not compliant with Google Play Policies" as a story · 346 points

    HN discussion
  3. git gui, which comes with git, is quite efficient to do partial commits. I wrote an article about this a few years ago: https://agateau.com/2016/an-intro-to-git-gui/

    Comment linking /2016/an-intro-to-git-gui/

    on “Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands”
  4. Submitted GitHub lock-in? as a story · 138 points

    HN discussion
  5. The code is the present truth, the commit messages can inform you about how it got turned into this truth. Interestingly, I recently wrote a short article about this: https://agateau.com/2026/on-commit-messages/

    Comment linking /2026/on-commit-messages/

    on “The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code”
  6. Submitted Git log is not a changelog as a story · 124 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Automatically publishing your build artifacts as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Clyde: A cross-platform package manager for pre-built applications as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Generating reports with Python, Markdown and entr as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted The story behind the Gwenview (KDE image viewer) name as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted In Praise of Aegis Authenticator (and KDE Connect) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Tend your Git garden with Git Bonsai as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Building Qt Apps with Travis CI and Docker as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Dependency diagrams for KDE Frameworks 5 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Homerun 0.2.1 for KDE Plasma desktop released as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Commit Messages as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted The gentle art of making patches easier to review as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted The gentle art of making patches easier to review as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted The story behind Gwenview name as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Show HN: Git-bonsai, a tool to clean your Git branches as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Simplifying unit tests using a custom markup language as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted On Presentation Tools as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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