First old meme I’ve never seen! Damnit Janet!

1985

Check out the guy with the brand new house!

I once left a plastic tub of bird seed next to the shed one winter. Something chewed it’s way through the plastic, got stuck and died. Since there was now a hole the rain turned it into a weird soup that I discovered during the hot summer. I can’t even imagine the smell if that was anchovies, it was bad enough as it was.

You check out the neovim plugin too if you haven’t already.

Check out bbsemu if you wanna relive that. I know they have LORD for sure, and it’s a really quick setup - unlike the old BBS software.

Sounds like the repository pattern would help here.

I’m doing something similar now where I need to store objects “somewhere”. I have a low level Repository interface to handle persistence that can do the basic CRUD (mainly get/set for my use case). It’s primarily backed by redis, but that same interface has been backed by Postgres, vault, and in-memory caches depending on the need/environment. Works amazingly well.

As a bonus we can create a new Repository to migrate data when needed - such as a redis or postgres upgrade, we build a MigratingRedisRepository that takes in 2 RedisRepository and does the necessary logic of reading from the old and writing to the new.

I think you’re on the right track with a mix of 1&2. Abstract out the data store, it will change some time - and you’ll want to control it for tests too. Let services/managers handle state and delegate down for persistence to wherever that may be.

Used to have an MSI wind back in the day, this looks exactly like it!