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Marc Coquand
Personal blog · mccd.space/postsprogrammingsystems
Marc Coquand's personal blog at mccd.space covers programming and systems. Since 2024, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Minimal Git CI using hooks”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-17, 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 this post as a how-to for deploying apps with git push to a NixOS server. It covers a simple nginx reverse-proxy setup for applications running as systemd services.
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.
Personal blog of Marc Coquand.
Most-linked posts?
- Minimal Git CI using hooks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-20
- Git email patch review addon for Thunderbird2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-19
- I Like NetBSD, or Why Portability Matters2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-17
What Hacker News says?
I did a write-up of setting up nixos with git deploys here: https://mccd.space/posts/git-to-deploy/ . As far as the nixos config is concerned, there is nothing crazy in it. It is just a regular nix config with nginx ( https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nginx ). You can see there that adding nginx is just four lines of code, ~eight with ssl. Use it to proxy to your applications that are setup as systemd services ( https://wiki.…
Comment linking /posts/git-to-deploy/
on “Piku: Allows git push deployments to your own servers”Submitted Why I love OCaml (2023) as a story · 391 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ann, the Small Annotation Server as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Like NetBSD, or Why Portability Matters as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Like NetBSD, or Why Portability Matters as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Purity Is Great for Collaboration as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git email patch review addon for Thunderbird as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring the Offline Documentation Landscape as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minimal Git CI using hooks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minimal Git CI using hooks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git email patch review addon for Thunderbird as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Email Patch Review Tool for Thunderbird as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring pq, a plain-text database connector for plan9 as a story · 1 points
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