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Cultured Systems
Personal blog · cultured.systems · on HN as culturedsystemsprogrammingphilosophy
Cultured Systems is a personal blog at cultured.systems about programming and philosophy. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A commenter cites this blog's post on soft deletion, alongside other posts, as an example of industry arguments against soft deletes in databases. The comment cites the post as a source and does not judge its writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-11
What Hacker News says?
There are many voices in the industry arguing against soft deletes. Mostly coming from a very Chesterton's Fence perspective. For some examples https://www.metabase.com/learn/analytics/data-model-mistakes... https://www.cultured.systems/2024/04/24/Soft-delete/ https://brandur.org/soft-deletion Many more can easily be found.
Comment linking /2024/04/24/Soft-delete/
on “Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers”Submitted Avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern as a story · 61 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dependency injections frameworks are pure ideology as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bridging patterns and programming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing the IO monad in Java for questionable fun and less profit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On not avoiding null pointer exceptions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted If there's a concern, it's your concern as a story · 1 points
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