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Daniel Vrátil
Personal blog · dvratil.czprogrammingsystems
Daniel Vrátil's personal blog at dvratil.cz covers programming and systems. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Daniel Vrátil's posts on Gmail IMAP problems and on a git post-checkout hook that sets the repo identity automatically. The comments link them as sources and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Issues with Gmail IMAP as voiced by other people: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16951363 https://www.dvratil.cz/2014/06/improved-gmail-integration-in... https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/gmail/9A5oYELFbu8/7iq... https://github.com/mscdex/node-imap/issues/71 https://freron.lighthouseapp.com/projects/58672/tickets/1247... Sure you can still access Gmail through IMAP, but if it works differently enough that…
Comment linking /2014/06/improved-gmail-integration-in-kde-pim-4-14/
on “Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate”Submitted Kontact and Google Integration Issues: KMail Can't Use GMail Anymore as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAssuming the desktop is GNOME is a bold assumption, AFAIK there's no gnome under OSX nor windows, and personally GNOME has displayed so much bad faith and disdain for the need of its users that even if it were the best desktop available I would not touch it with a 10 foot stick. Also GTK applications usually do not look bad under KDE or LXDE or cinnamon, etc. That being said the official screenshots are horribly dat…
Comment linking /2017/01/kmail-multiple-merge-candidates-error-and-how-to-fix-it/
on “Sylpheed – a simple, lightweight but featureful e-mail client”I used to have a git post-checkout hook that set the repo identity based on the repo origin url [0] on checkout - maybe there's some post-clone hook these days, but 10 years ago when I wrote it there was only post-checkout hook. [0] https://www.dvratil.cz/2015/12/git-trick-%23628-automaticall...
Comment linking /2015/12/git-trick-%23628-automatically-set-commit-author-based-on-repo-url/
on “Gitas – A tool for Git account switching”