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Hugo's weblog on WhyNotHugo (雨果)
Personal blog · whynothugo.nl/journal · on HN as WhyNotHugosystemsprogrammingwriting
Hugo's weblog on WhyNotHugo (雨果) is a personal blog at whynothugo.nl about systems, programming and writing. Since 2022, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “ImapGoose”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter links the blog's imapgoose introduction as another option in a thread on JMAP calendars and contacts in Stalwart. The comment does not assess the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- ImapGoose2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-15
- Unaccountable Systems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-13
- In Praise of Alpine and APK2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-20
What Hacker News says?
It’s not mapped to any key by default. A common choice is the right alt key. I wrote a short guide about it last year: https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2024/07/12/typing-non-english-...
Comment linking /journal/2024/07/12/typing-non-english-characters/
on “You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here”Submitted GPTs and Feeling Left Behind as a story · 247 points
HN discussionJust configure something like RightAlt to work as a compose key: Compose--- produces — Compose--. produces – Lots of other characters like áăǎ°±€ are available through compose: https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2024/07/12/typing-non-english-... > Absolutely proper and correct use of em dashes, en dashes, and hyphens is, to me, the most obvious tell of the LLM writer. Or just someone who likes to use the right characters…
Comment linking /journal/2024/07/12/typing-non-english-characters/
on “How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)”Submitted SSH as a Sudo Replacement as a story · 230 points
HN discussionI’ve recently written ImapGoose, a daemon which keeps a remote IMAP mailbox in sync with a local tree of Maildir: https://whynothugo.nl/tags/imapgoose/ It relies on “modern” (2009) extensions to minimise traffic and avoids polling entirely (relying on the server to notify of new messages or changes as they happen). It’s currently quite stable. The only known issue is that it can take a while to detect a timeout when…
Comment linking /tags/imapgoose/
on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)”Submitted How the clipboard works as a story · 228 points
HN discussionimapgoose which was recently featured here I think is another option: https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2025/10/15/introducing-imapgoo...
Comment linking /journal/2025/10/15/introducing-imapgoose/
on “JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart”Submitted Man pages are great, man readers are the problem as a story · 138 points
HN discussionThe Compose approach is extremely handy if you need to type several languages (e.g.: Spanish, German and Pinyin). A wrote a short article on it a while ago: https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2024/07/12/typing-non-english-... I also keep a handy alias to quickly find how to write new symbols: alias compose='fzf < /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose'
Comment linking /journal/2024/07/12/typing-non-english-characters/
on “Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design”Submitted ImapGoose as a story · 120 points
HN discussioniDeal is superb and the most convenient payment method I've dealt with. Wero claims that they won't support paying through a browser, and that it will be tied to either Google or Apple, which seems like a huge step back from iDeal in its currents state. I wrote about this a few months back (including actual sources for their claims): https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2026/02/25/entrenching-america...
Comment linking /journal/2026/02/25/entrenching-american-corporations-into-local-european-payments/
on “Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment”Submitted Wlhc: Wayland Hot Corners as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI wrote a guide on copying photos from an iPhone onto a Linux host: https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2024/12/22/exporting-photos-fr...
Comment linking /journal/2024/12/22/exporting-photos-from-an-iphone/
on “I built an app to backup Live Photos from iPhone to external hard drives”Submitted 98% Isn't Much as a story · 35 points
HN discussionYes, yes, and yes. https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2024/12/22/exporting-photos-fr...
Comment linking /journal/2024/12/22/exporting-photos-from-an-iphone/
on “Open-source iCloud Photos Downloader (AKA escape from iCloud)”Submitted GitHub's Downfall as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unaccountable Systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unaccountable Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ImapGoose Status Update: v0.3.2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm Happy with My Pinetime as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Systemd, locking, and sleeping (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Praise of Alpine and APK as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Praise of Alpine and APK as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ignore DNSSEC if you like MitM attacks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A radiator only cares about the temperature of incoming air as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Translation models between English and Chinese as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Praise of Alpine and APK as a story · 1 points
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