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willghatch blog: willghatch blog is a personal blog at willghatch.net about programming, systems and productivity. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Composiphrase: Composable editing language like Vim, but moreso”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link willghatch.net for posts on NixOS and its package management, replacing a router with nftables on NixOS, and Vim-style text editing composability. No comment judges the writing itself.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Composiphrase: Composable editing language like Vim, but moreso2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-11
What Hacker News says?
During this week I've been playing around with replacing my USG with my existing home server - it already has two NICs - my first thought was to run OPNSense in a VM but nftables on NixOS seems to work well enough - there are a few examples floating online [0,1]. OpenBSD even supports the USG [2] but I couldn't think of much reason to keep the extra hardware. The next thing I want to do is reflash my Unifi APs with…
Comment linking /blog/2020/06/22/nixos-raspberry-pi-4-google-fiber-router/
on “Ubiquiti all but confirms breach response iniquity”Submitted Why Windows Is Terrible as a story · 16 points
HN discussionI run NixOS. I recently wrote a blog post about my opinions of the pros/cons: https://willghatch.net/blog/2020/06/27/nixos-the-good-the-ba... For several years previously I ran Arch Linux on laptops, Debian on servers, and a mix of the two on various desktops. I'm generally much happier with NixOS. NixOS-style package management is the future, it's clearly better than all its competitors (I put Guix together with Ni…
Comment linking /blog/2020/06/27/nixos-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/
on “Ask HN: Advanced Linux users, which distribution do you run? Why?”Submitted Composiphrase: Composable editing language like Vim, but moreso as a story · 4 points
HN discussionVim's composability is awesome. But it turns out that its possible to take this a lot further than vim does: http://www.willghatch.net/blog/text-editing/composiphrase_co...
Comment linking /blog/text-editing/composiphrase_composable-editing-language-like-vim-but-moreso/
on “The Efficiency of Vim”Submitted NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly as a story · 2 points
HN discussion