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Fabian Lindfors
Personal blog · fabianlindfors.se/blog · on HN as fabianlindforsprogrammingsystems
Fabian Lindfors's personal blog at fabianlindfors.se covers programming and systems. Since 2018, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Complex zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Fabian Lindfors' blog for its writing on Postgres schema migrations, including a post on Reshape. One commenter cites it alongside Atlas as a notable tool in that space.
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.
Founder of Specific (YC F25)
Most-linked posts?
- Complex zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-23
- Zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres using views2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-06-16
- Next.js is not a good fit for vibe engineering2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-11
- Zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres using Reshape2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-06
What Hacker News says?
fwiw, I personally am interested in this approach too[0]. I keep running into roadblocks around the ordering of events and some of the hairy issues around "destructive" actions (eg: renaming columns). i think we can get there, especially once we make progress with this LSP. There are other notable mentions in this space: Reshape: https://fabianlindfors.se/blog/schema-migrations-in-postgres... Atlas: https://atlasgo.…
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on “Show HN: Postgres Language Server”Submitted Zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres using views as a story · 181 points
HN discussionYou got it right! I wrote a blog post a few years back about how this technique works for anyone curious: https://fabianlindfors.se/blog/schema-migrations-in-postgres...
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on “Pgroll: zero-downtime, undoable, schema migrations for Postgres”Submitted Zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres using Reshape as a story · 177 points
HN discussionSubmitted Decorators in Go using embedded structs as a story · 95 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Postgres Distributed with FoundationDB as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted Next.js is not a good fit for vibe engineering as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an object store with FoundationDB as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an object store with FoundationDB as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Europe's Bitter Lesson as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Complex zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres (2024) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Complex zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres using views as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Complex zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Value in Learning Yet Another Programming Language as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Next.js is not a good fit for vibe engineering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres using views (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Renaming database fields is ureasonably hard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zero-downtime schema migrations for Ruby on Rails as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zero-downtime schema migrations for Ruby on Rails as a story · 1 points
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