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Paul Copplestone
Personal blog · paul.copplest.one/blogstartupsdesign
Paul Copplestone's personal blog at paul.copplest.one covers startups and design. Since 2017, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Design Tips for Developers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Paul Copplestone's blog for its design guidance for developers and the look of its gist pages, such as a secrets-management SOPS write-up with text-over-image sequence diagrams.
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.
Techie and entrepreneur
Most-linked posts?
- Design Tips for Developers3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-23
- Why Nations Succeed2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-26
- Postgres, PostgREST, React, and writing less code2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-04-21
- /blog/nimbus-tech-2019-04.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-27
- Do nothing (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-10
- How to Agile2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-11
- Profit Sharing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-13
What Hacker News says?
See my comments on Auth here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23320443 > We want to nail the auth and we're looking at leveraging Postgres' native Row Level Security. This is a tricky task to "generalize" for all businesses but we have some good ideas (we're discussing in our repo if you want to follow - https://github.com/supabase/supabase ) > RESTful APIs I can of course get with PostgREST That's what we use!…
Comment linking /blog/nimbus-tech-2019-04.html
on “Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative”Submitted Design Tips for Developers as a story · 321 points
HN discussionNice to see these sort of posts popping up on HN. I've been enjoying HN the past few weeks - a lot of community related posts and engagement. Honestly I don't have much worth reading on my blog. But I see a lot of posts about the "best way to store knowledge" - org-mode, roam, zettelkasten, markdown etc. My blog isn't worth reading because that's exactly what I use it for. If you're looking for a way to [1] take not…
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted Do nothing (2020) as a story · 208 points
HN discussionI'm not sure about postgrest, but with postgraphile you can control field exposure and add getters/setters fairly granularly. Regardless, that's no reason to say it's "not a good idea at all." having a schema change ripple through the stack is just a trade-off, which is often even desirable. If engineers are shipping code to production with postgrest, and attributing it in part to their success, maybe reconsider the…
Comment linking /blog/nimbus-tech-2019-04.html
on “PostgREST: REST API for any Postgres database”Submitted Postgres, PostgREST, React, and writing less code as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSide topic: Any idea how sequence diagram in page [0] is created? It is not an image but text over-layed with some background images and I think it looks and feels awesome. [0] https://paul.copplest.one/gists/secrets-management-sops.html...
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on “Design Tips for Developers”Submitted Design Tips for Developers (2020) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNot OP, but we do something similar it our startup. PostgREST ( http://postgrest.org ) definitely helps if you want to go down this path as it exposes everything in the database (including functions etc) via a RestFUL api. A bit outdated now, but some details here: https://paul.copplest.one/blog/nimbus-tech-2019-04.html#tech...
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on “Message DB: Event Store and Message Store for PostgreSQL”Submitted The unreasonable effectiveness of doing nothing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSome high level data why pyrolysis is preferable over other options: https://paul.copplest.one/knowledge/pyrolysis.html#what-is-p...
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on “Worms fail to thrive in soil containing microplastics: study”Submitted Why Nations Succeed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIn my previous startup I used my Postgres database to generate out JSON Schemas (detailed in [1]). It was great for validations. We even generated some of the UI from the Schemas. > Just to add to this, things like authorization, login, registration, etc, seem tiresome to write every time for a new API Check out Supabase [2], which is similar to Parse (disclosure: I'm a Supabase cofounder). We use Postgres as a back…
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on “API design is stuck in the past”Submitted Nimbus Tech Stack (2019) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI once had a relationship with someone with depression. As someone who is naturally quite happy[1], the thing that suprised me most at the start of the relationship is the amount of time she spent strategising how to be happy, rather than just getting on with being happy. In her case, it's understandable because depression is completely irrational[2] But nations do have the capacity to act rationally, so when I thes…
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on “Build institutions, not apps”Submitted Collaborate on inputs, compete on outputs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMy blog is also like this - https://paul.copplest.one Basically it’s a wiki of things that I stumble upon and want to learn later (mostly from HN). It’s not so interesting for general reading, but the cheat sheets and code snippets get a lot of use from my friends in tech (and from google it seems). I figure at the end of my life it will be a fairly complete knowledge base of everything I’ve ever learned
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on “My blog is a digital garden, not a blog”Submitted Profit Sharing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIn the AR circles, what they are building is called the AR Cloud - basically a digital representation of the physical world. A “complete state” of this digital world has a number of practical benefits for autonomous vehicles/drones, but you’re right that in the path to get there is mostly going to be filled with gaming and advertising, and the occasional niceties. I wrote about some applications here: https://paul.c…
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on “Facebook’s Project Aria Is Google Maps – For Your Entire Life”Submitted Profit Vesting Not Equity Vesting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI really love PostgREST. This was my early approach to realtime, using PostgREST for CRUD operations: https://paul.copplest.one/blog/nimbus-tech-2019-04.html#tech... Not much is different now except I don't use NOTIFY anymore due to the 8000 byte payload limitation (and the reason why I made the elixir server)
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on “Show HN: Realtime Postgres”Submitted How to Agile as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor simple overviews targeted at folks who are developers include: https://www.taniarascia.com/design-for-developers/ (Tania Rascia's take is my favorite, for its clarity and scope, even though I disagree with a few of the suggestions) https://paul.copplest.one/blog/design.html (Paul Copplestone's is a little less up my alley, but some folks prefer it)
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on “Ask HN: Making things look not-terrible – especially in HTML/CSS”Submitted Profit Sharing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy colleague has been asking me to teach him to code for years now. I decided I would start by teaching him the same way I started - by hand coding HTML. As a result, his website feels like a throwback to the early internet. I’m sharing this in case anyone else has an interest in teaching a friend. The steps I took were: - I created a simple HTML cheat sheet for him: https://paul.copplest.one/knowledge/programming/h…
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on “Show HN: My Colleague’s Neocities Site”Submitted Why Nations Succeed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Load JSON into Postgres as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Run an Agile Team as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nimbus Tech Stack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write like Paul Graham as a story · 2 points
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