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Andrey Salomatin

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Andrey Salomatin's personal blog at flpvsk.com covers programming and systems. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Building offline-first web and mobile apps using event-sourcing”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2019–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for a post on offline-first apps built on event sourcing. Commenters cite it as the pattern they used for their own projects, without judging the writing itself.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Personal website and blog of a coder, product manager and founder Andrey Salomatin

Most-linked posts?

  1. Building offline-first web and mobile apps using event-sourcing
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-22
  2. Control and Effort in API Design
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. Couldn't agree more. I've followed this rough pattern to build a rock-solid offline-first core for a personal application: https://flpvsk.com/blog/2019-07-20-offline-first-apps-event-... It's got some pain points; in particular it's quite difficult to evolve the schema once your app is out in the wild. But event sourcing is very amenable to TDD, and once all my tests were passing I had a nearly bulletproof solution…

    Comment linking /blog/2019-07-20-offline-first-apps-event-sourcing/

    on “Event Sourcing Is Hard (2019)”
  2. Submitted Control and Effort in API Design as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Hah - you're describing "event sourcing" and it's the technique I'm using: https://flpvsk.com/blog/2019-07-20-offline-first-apps-event-... Unfortunately event sourcing means distributed systems... and I'm learning this on the fly on nights & weekends. Martin Kleppmann's "Designing Data Intensive Applications" has put the fear of god in me.

    Comment linking /blog/2019-07-20-offline-first-apps-event-sourcing/

    on “Show HN: Anki alternative with integrated notes and import/export”
  4. Submitted Building offline-first web and mobile apps using event-sourcing as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Control and Effort in API Design as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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