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Will McGugan
Personal blog · willmcgugan.github.ioprogramming
Will McGugan's personal blog at willmcgugan.github.io covers programming. Since 2025, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Toad – a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Will McGugan's blog for posts about Toad, his unified terminal interface for AI coding tools, including its announcement and a progress report. One commenter also found a playful facts-about-toads post fun.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Will McGugan’s essays
Most-linked posts?
- Toad – a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-07-23
- Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-12-18
- Efficient Streaming of Markdown in the Terminal3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-07-24
- The Toad Report #13 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-08-28
- The Ethics of Readme Ads2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-05
- Agentic Coding with Toad2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-28
What Hacker News says?
Python is more than capable of doing that. It’s not an issue of raw execution speed. https://willmcgugan.github.io/streaming-markdown/
Comment linking /streaming-markdown/
on “Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI”Submitted Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal as a story · 189 points
HN discussionI’m working in a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal. https://willmcgugan.github.io/toad-report-2/
Comment linking /toad-report-2/
on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)”Submitted Toad: A unified experience for AI in your terminal as a story · 20 points
HN discussionThis was fun: https://willmcgugan.github.io/facts-about-toads/
Comment linking /facts-about-toads/
on “Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal”Submitted Toad – a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal as a story · 16 points
HN discussionThe OpenHands CLI has had some major improvements since v1: https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands MIT license and model agnostic I’d also keep a close eye on Toad which is launching this month: https://willmcgugan.github.io/announcing-toad/
Comment linking /announcing-toad/
on “Agentic AI Foundation”Submitted The Toad Report #1 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFor reference: - https://willmcgugan.github.io/announcing-toad/ - https://willmcgugan.github.io/toad-report-1/
Comment linking /toad-report-1/
on “Toad: Universal TUI for Agentinc Coding from Will McGugan (Rich/Textual)”Submitted Too Much Magic as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI have played with it and it's so easy get started with that now I want a quick-project idea as an excuse to use it! I'm sure you've thought of this, but lots of people get 'free' (or really: zero incremental cost to them) use of some coding chat tool through a subscription or free allowance like what Google is offering. If you wanted to let those access your custom tools (browser!) and docs about the environment, a…
Comment linking /toad-released/
on “Exe.dev/”Submitted Toad – a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I ban users from my repositories as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Toad – a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Good AI, Bad AI – The Experiment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Toad: Unified Experience for AI in the Terminal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Efficient Streaming of Markdown in the Terminal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Developer's experience with weight loss injections as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agentic Coding with Toad as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Efficient Streaming of Markdown in the Terminal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ethics of Readme Ads as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ethics of Readme Ads as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Efficient Streaming of Markdown in the Terminal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Toad Report #2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Toad Report #1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Efficient Streaming of Markdown in the Terminal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bridging the JavaScript and Python Divide as a story · 1 points
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