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Thibault Martin
Personal blog · ergaster.org/posts · on HN as thibaultamartinprogrammingsystems
Thibault Martin writes Ergaster, a personal blog at ergaster.org about programming and systems. Since 2023, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Helix and Typst are a match made in heaven”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Ergaster is the personal website of Thibault Martin (Thib), a nonprofit strategist and open source program manager at the Matrix.org Foundation.
Most-linked posts?
- Helix and Typst are a match made in heaven3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-10
- Kubernetes is not just for Black Friday2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-09
- Why are open source nonprofits so weird?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-31
- Prosthetics That Don't Betray2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-28
What Hacker News says?
I concur! Several of us also subscribe to your blogs' RSS feeds. If you're one of the nice people who put the full content of their blog posts into their feed, you might not see me as a visitor, but I definitely read and enjoy your blog. As an occasional blog writer myself, I also like to announce manually on my social platforms I use (Mastodon and LinkedIn) when I blogged, and send a link to those socials post. The…
Comment linking /posts/2024/03/06-welcoming-feedback/
on “Why blog if nobody reads it?”Submitted Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys as a story · 345 points
HN discussionHi, I'm the Thib person mention in this article, and I agree that QA is super important. I can mostly talk about matrix.org, since I have little power over the Element clients. Disclaimer though: I'm technically employed by Element (to make paperwork simpler since I'm France-based, Element has an entity in France, and the Foundation is UK-based), but I'm working for the Foundation full time. This kind of article is…
Comment linking /posts/2024/01/24-tracking-what-works/
on “The Matrix Trashfire”Submitted Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale as a story · 260 points
HN discussionAuthor here, thanks for the warning! I'm all too familiar with this kind of situation! This homelab is for fun and learning. I wrote about why I don't (want to) self-host services for others: https://ergaster.org/posts/2023/08/09-i-dont-want-to-host-se...
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on “Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers”Submitted From VS Code to Helix as a story · 256 points
HN discussionAuthor here, I completely agree. In fact, I even wrote about it: https://ergaster.org/posts/2023/08/09-i-dont-want-to-host-se... My homelab is my hobby. I maintain it for my pleasure and to learn new skills. We have an infra nerds club with a few colleagues and we're having a lot of fun comparing our approaches!
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on “Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers”Submitted Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers as a story · 253 points
HN discussionWhen I publish something I like not shouting into the void so I want comments , but I also don't want to give a platform to anyone and everyone on my blog. What works best for me is to add a link to the fediverse, linkedin and sometimes HN threads of comments when I publish a post. It's also a very low tech solution :) https://ergaster.org/posts/2024/03/06-welcoming-feedback/
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on “Adding Mastodon Comments to Your Blog”Submitted Why is my Raspberry Pi 4 too slow as a server? as a story · 42 points
HN discussionPaper is a sturdy tool; it doesn’t run out of battery, it’s interoperable… it beats apps in many aspects. But as soon as you need automation, it’s a different story. I couldn’t rely only on paper notes to keep track of my work. Obsidian has been very useful to keep track of my list of tasks and report what I’m doing. I would spend much more time doing all that with paper. Details of my setup at https://ergaster.org/…
Comment linking /posts/2024/07/16-obsidian-contractor/
on “Just use fucking paper, man”Submitted You can still own music as a story · 30 points
HN discussionI've had similar thoughts and decided not to embed comments on my blog, but to link to social media where people can still give me feedback. One of the most positive things I've done though is to generate "Comment by email" links at the end of each post. People who reach out directly and only to me behave much differently than people who do performative commenting on social media. The overall rationale for not havin…
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on “No Comment (2010)”Submitted Kubernetes is not just for Black Friday as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've used astro to build https://ergaster.org and it was very simple to work with. I host it on CloudFlare Pages and it works like a charm. I discovered it via one of Kevin Powell's videos: a 20 minutes tutorial to get started using Astro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acgIGT0J99U I find it very simple to use as a developer, but there are quite a few things happening behind the scenes to make the site itself faste…
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on “Ask HN: What's the simplest static website generator?”Submitted Helix and Typst are a match made in heaven as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's exactly that. And I also have come to the realization that I don't have to give up the convenience my smartphone offers. I only need to add friction for what causes distractions. In particular, the Personal Time mode of iOS has been a game changer for me: https://ergaster.org/til/ask-smartphone-attention/
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on “Why I Use a Dumbphone in 2025 (and Why You Should Too)”Submitted TIL that Helix and Typst are a match made in heaven as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloud tech makes sense on-prem too as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why are open source nonprofits so weird? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why are open source nonprofits so weird? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Helix and Typst are a match made in heaven as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Loading Credentials from Bitwarden with Direnv as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kubernetes is not just for Black Friday as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social media affect me more than I thought as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prosthetics That Don't Betray as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prosthetics That Don't Betray as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open-Source Is a Chainsaw as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I don't want to host services (but I do) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing is hard, so I got help as a story · 1 points
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