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Kenneth Truyers
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Kenneth Truyers's personal blog at kenneth-truyers.net covers programming and web. Since 2012, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 64 times, most often “Git as a NoSql Database (2016)”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kenneth Truyers' posts on using git as a NoSQL-style database and on C# language features such as C# 7 additions. One commenter singled out the diagrams in the git database post.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Git as a NoSql Database (2016)9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2016-10-13
- New features in C# 73 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-01-22
- Iterators and Generators in JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-20
- New Features in C# 7, part 22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-25
What Hacker News says?
It seems like git can also be used as an immutable database as well. Does anyone here have experience / comments on using git as a database backend? EDIT: I found a couple of interesting references for folks who may be curious about this as well. I especially like [2] for its diagrams. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20151158/using-git-repos... [2] https://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2016/10/13/git-nosql-databas…
Comment linking /2016/10/13/git-nosql-database/
on “Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder”Submitted Git as a NoSql Database (2016) as a story · 143 points
HN discussionC# was mostly irrelevant to me a long time when Microsoft's implementation was closed, but there are some neat things about it. They've done a lot of interesting stuff in the language since it first came out, including pragmatic sugar-y stuff like type inference (`var`), async/await, and recently some moves towards more functional-style pattern matching though they're not totally there yet ( https://www.kenneth-truy…
Comment linking /2016/01/20/new-features-in-c-sharp-7/
on “Span<T> in C#”Submitted Yield return in C# as a story · 9 points
HN discussion> retrofitting them into languages which already have nulls has problems I'm not sure I agree with that. See how MS did that in C# 7: https://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2016/01/25/new-features-in-c...
Comment linking /2016/01/25/new-features-in-c-sharp-7-part-2/
on “Pointer Free Programming and the Future of Nim”Submitted New features in C# 7 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git as a NoSql Database (2016) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's new and coming in C# 8 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Git as a NoSQL database as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flexible and expressive unit tests with the builder pattern as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Key qualities of a good unit test as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git as a NoSql Database as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git as a NoSql DatabaseGit as a NoSQL Database (2016) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git as a NoSql database (2016) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Refactoring taken too far – a case for simplicity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted New features in C# 7 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The test pyramid, and when to ignore it as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Javascript hoisting explained as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git as a NoSql database as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git as a NoSql database as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iterators and Generators in JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technical debt: managing code quality as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wrap up on build 2016 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vertical Slices in ASP.NET MVC as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to ditch your ORM as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The N-layer myth and basic dependency injection as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript Namespaces and Modules as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to start writing effective unit tests as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Private variables in Javascript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 5 books every developer will benefit from reading as a story · 2 points
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