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Mark Percival
Personal blog · mdp.github.ioprogrammingwriting
Mark Percival's personal blog at mdp.github.io covers programming and writing. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a 2017 post on prototyping in the age of NoSQL, which covers data modelling and schema evolution. Commenters cite it when discussing why relations matter in data models.
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.
Mark Percival - Professional typist, man about town, person of interest
Most-linked posts?
- /2017/10/29/prototyping-in-the-age-of-nosql.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-23
What Hacker News says?
Firebase, Parse, and Meteor were definitely inspirations for us. Instant's main advantage is that we support relations. This means you can create data models like 'users -> comments -> apps'. For a bit more about why this matters, this is a good post: https://mdp.github.io/2017/10/29/prototyping-in-the-age-of-n...
Comment linking /2017/10/29/prototyping-in-the-age-of-nosql.html
on “Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase”Submitted Regex Blaster as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWe hear you on the pain for evolving NoSQL schemas. [1] For what it's worth, we're built on top of Aurora and support relations so evolution should be much easier! [1] https://mdp.github.io/2017/10/29/prototyping-in-the-age-of-n...
Comment linking /2017/10/29/prototyping-in-the-age-of-nosql.html
on “Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase”Submitted U2F demo for developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you're interested in seeing how it works in action, I built a U2F demo site that shows all the nitty-gritty details of the process - https://mdp.github.io/u2fdemo/ You just need a U2F key to try it.
Comment linking /u2fdemo/
on “Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing”Submitted Notwork – newsletter about creative software projects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTL;DR: I think you should still learn regex, even though AI has made it a "useless" skill https://mdp.github.io/2026/03/17/the-kids-are-alright-and-th...
Comment linking /2026/03/17/the-kids-are-alright-and-theyll-probably-still-learn-regex.html
on “Regex Blaster”