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Chris Bargmann
Personal blog · cbrgm.net/postprogrammingsystems
Chris Bargmann's personal blog at cbrgm.net covers programming and systems. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “So you want i3wm on macOS?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Chris Bargmann's macOS setup guide, a post about configuring a Mac for tiling window management with yabai and skhd. One commenter says following it helped them set up their own system.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Chris Bargmann is a Software Engineer working on distributed systems and sovereign European cloud infrastructure.
Most-linked posts?
- So you want i3wm on macOS?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-25
What Hacker News says?
As others have mentioned yabai +skhd is excellent. I think using this guide to set it all up went a long way for me: https://cbrgm.net/post/2021-05-5-setup-macos/ Yabai is my daily driver and I really like it.
Comment linking /post/2021-05-5-setup-macos/
on “You're using function keys wrong”Submitted So you want i3wm on macOS? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being Diagnosed with GBS as a story · 2 points
HN discussion