Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)(essays.johnloeber.com)
668 points by phil294 | 362 comments
John Loeber's 2023 Substack essay arguing for a return to idiomatic, consistent UI design like that of the desktop software era.
#consistency on Hacker News
3 stories tagged consistency, newest first.
When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines(jazco.dev)
751 points by cyndunlop | 293 comments
Blog post explaining how Bluesky uses intentionally lossy timeline fanout to trade perfect consistency for lower latency and better scalability.
Jepsen: MySQL 8.0.34(jepsen.io)
321 points by aphyr | 119 comments
Jepsen analysis by Peter Alvaro and Kyle Kingsbury showing MySQL 8.0.34 Repeatable Read violates internal consistency and AWS RDS MySQL clusters violate Serializability.