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Guyren Howe
Personal blog · frest.substack.comprogrammingsystems
Guyren Howe writes FREST Substack, a personal blog at frest.substack.com about programming and systems. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Distributed == Relational”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters mention this Substack when discussing Datalog as a replacement for SQL, relational REST APIs, and component-based UI design. The comments do not judge 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.
The substack for FREST: computing for everyone. Launched 4 years ago.
Most-linked posts?
- Distributed == Relational2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-11
What Hacker News says?
I would develop a production-ready Datalog database system. I am convinced a better alternative to the execrable SQL would significantly raise developer productivity. http://frest.substack.com
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?”Submitted Distributed == Relational as a story · 61 points
HN discussionhttps://frest.substack.com I am working on better APIs driven by a better user interface experience. The better APIs are REST but relational. The better UIs are driven by an embeddable component-based view of the API and its data. The result is plastic software that out of the box more resembles Access or FileMaker than Ruby on Rails.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted First-Class Models: The Missing Productivity Revolution as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding Is State Farming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apps Are Dead; They Just Don't Know It Yet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distributed == Relational as a story · 1 points
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