• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    6 days ago

    As a software engineer, in any of our corporate applications when a user hits delete we toggle an archived flag, but the data is still there.

    What many people don’t realize is that this is how some low level data stores work as well. Even regular ol’ file systems do this (basically).