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by Robin
Personal blog · robinwinslow.ukprogrammingproductivity
by Robin is a personal blog at robinwinslow.uk about programming and productivity. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times, most often “Slow Software Development”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-20, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages and other static file hosts. The comment praises the technique and warns about git storing full copies of binary database files.
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.
Thinkings on life, technology and politics.
Most-linked posts?
- Slow Software Development2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-14
What Hacker News says?
Solution works really well to databases which will not be updated frequently, like a standalone site. Although one should be aware of one very important git behavior - git does not diff binary files (like SQLite dbs). That means 2 things: 1. Each db update will generate a new file in git, maintaining the whole old file in history, instead of the diff in bytes. This will accumulate a lot of clutter in the repo 2. As…
Comment linking /dont-ever-commit-binary-files-to-git
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