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Fideloper

Personal blog · fideloper.comprogrammingsystems

Fideloper is a personal blog at fideloper.com about programming and systems. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Hexagonal Architecture”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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10mentions?
6HN people?
2013–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Fideloper's posts on software architecture, including hexagonal architecture and MVVM. Comments discuss the hexagonal naming and MVC as a way of modelling code, without judging the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Coding, servers, and business.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Hexagonal Architecture
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-07-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. MVC itself isn't a tool of craft ; it's an ontology for talking about code. That is, there's no system that is or is not MVC; MVC is a guide for mentally modelling a system . It's a way to distinguish parts of a continuous whole by drawing imaginary lines, like between having a "brain" vs. a "mind", or between having a "state" vs. a "government", or between various species of plant or animal. They're tools to use to…

    Comment linking /hexagonal-architecture

    on “MVVM is Exceptionally OK”
  2. Submitted How We Code: ORMs and Anemic Domain Models as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. It's a neat architecture and I use at least the ideas of it all the time, but the name has always struck me as weird, because as the author says [1] it's just arbitrary. Seems like "port-based" or "microkernal-like" or something would be better. [1]: http://fideloper.com/hexagonal-architecture , see "Why A Hexagon"

    Comment linking /hexagonal-architecture

    on “Hexagonal architecture”
  4. Submitted Hexagonal Architecture as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. http://fideloper.com/hexagonal-architecture Another page about it, also couldn't get to the linked article.

    Comment linking /hexagonal-architecture

    on “Hexagonal architecture”
  6. Submitted Understanding Nginx Try Files as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Nginx Unit with Laravel and PHP as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Adapters and Makers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted So you got yourself a load balancer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted So, you got yourself a load balancer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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