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Nicolas Mattia
Personal blog · nmattia.com/postsprogrammingweb
Nicolas Mattia writes nmattia's blog, a personal blog at nmattia.com about programming and web. Since 2016, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Notes on building an app that looks like an IKEA manual”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, in the Nix × IPFS milestone thread, which describes the commenter's own NixOS and Home Manager setup rather than the linked post. The linked posts appear to be about Nix and IPFS work.
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.
Software Engineer based in Zurich who has a thing for functional programming, reproducible builds and infrastructure as code
Most-linked posts?
- Notes on building an app that looks like an IKEA manual2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-24
- Setting Up SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-20
What Hacker News says?
Personally, I use NixOS in conjunction with Home Manager[0] to more conveniently use Nix to manage my user-level config. The configuration that I manage with Home Manager includes my Emacs config, my Git config, and my Bash config. Additionally, almost all of the other programs I use on a daily basis are at least installed through it. Since it’s primarily only used for managing some packages, the configuration proce…
Comment linking /posts/2018-03-21-nix-reproducible-setup-linux-macos.html
on “Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1”Submitted Setting Up SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID as a story · 95 points
HN discussionSubmitted Printing Labels via SSH with Raspberry Pi Zero and Nix as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on building an app that looks like an IKEA manual as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Skåpa, a parametric 3D printing app like an IKEA manual as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recreating an iOS Animation with GLSL (interactive tutorial) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stutter: the anti-grep as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Set WebGL Shader Colors with CSS and JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hunt bugs down before they are merged as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Applied Traversals and isos: a 2048 clone as a story · 1 points
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