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Candost's Blog
Personal blog · candost.blog · on HN as candostcareerprogramming
Candost's Blog is a personal blog at candost.blog about career and programming. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “Building a Strong Ownership Culture in a Team”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-04, 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 these posts on writing technical proposals and RFCs, including how to compare a solution against competitors, and on why Gumroad did not choose htmx and whether languages should be less powerful.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Building a Strong Ownership Culture in a Team2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-08-17
- Don't Assume Consensus in the Absence of Objection2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-10-01
- How to Stop Endless Discussions2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-03
- On Good Software Engineers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-27
What Hacker News says?
Which is exactly what shouldn't happen. Every serious proposal/RFC needs to have an honest stab at what the competition looks like and why it won't work there. > I often see people believe in their solution and think theirs are better than the others. They defend their cases without having an exact reason. These situations often create long and meaningless discussions that go nowhere. From < https://candost.blog/how…
Comment linking /how-to-stop-endless-discussions/
on “Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx”Submitted How to Stop Endless Discussions as a story · 344 points
HN discussionYou have clearly thought about this quite a bit; you expounded at length in your original comment, which if I had to guess only glances upon the totality of your reasoning to present a summary of it here. Can you elaborate on why in your use case moar power is a requirement? Basically, fleshing out what would go in the "Need" section of the NABC model (and a partial preview of "Competitors"): - < https://candost.blo…
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