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Elided Branches
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Elided Branches is a personal blog at elidedbranches.com about programming and career. Since 2016, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Product for Internal Platforms”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Camille Fournier's blog for writing on engineering leadership, including being a CTO and moving from a hands-on role to a hands-off one.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Technology, startups, programming, technical management and software architecture
Most-linked posts?
- Product for Internal Platforms3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-05-09
- Notes on Startup Engineering Management for Young Bloods3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-04-09
- Guidelines for Respectful Use of AI3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-17
- The Product Culture Shift3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-14
- Elided Branches: Revisiting Manager READMEs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-01
- How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck? A Primer (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-09
- OPP: Other People's Problems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-15
- The Next Larger Context2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-28
What Hacker News says?
I highly recommend following Camille Fournier's blog, she writes/speaks extensively about being a technical leader and CTO. Priceless lecture especially that it comes from someone very experienced. Check out this post about transitioning to hands-off position http://www.elidedbranches.com/2016/04/ask-cto-navigating-han...
Comment linking /2016/04/ask-cto-navigating-hands-on-to-hands.html
on “Ask HN: I don't enjoy being a CTO. Now what?”Submitted How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck? A Primer (2017) as a story · 316 points
HN discussionAlso has a great list of other blogs, most of which are my favorites now too. https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/04/09/some-of-my-favorite-blogs/ here's a copy+pastable list: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ http://danluu.com/ https://aphyr.com/ http://www.elidedbranches.com/ http://composition.al/blog/2015/03/31/what-isnt-a-key-value-... https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2016/03/29/0 http://blog.plover.com/aliens/dd/intro.h…
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on “Ask HN: What are your favourite developer blogs?”Submitted How individual contributors get stuck (2017) as a story · 219 points
HN discussionI have the same categorical feeling of revulsion seeing this kind of pseudoscience today as I did when I first saw it a year ago. This is basically corporate astrology. It's unfalsifiable, patronizing, reductionist and amounts to unwarranted adversarial psychological aggression. If you ever used this in the corporate setting at any place I've ever worked at, you'd be laughed out of the room so fast it would make you…
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on “How to deal with difficult people on software projects”Submitted How do managers get stuck? (2017) as a story · 213 points
HN discussionCamille also has a blog at http://www.elidedbranches.com . I second the recommendation.
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on “Ask HN: Blogs about Being CTO/Head of/Lead Dev?”Submitted OPP: Other People's Problems as a story · 91 points
HN discussionCamille Fournier - The Manager's Path https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Grow... https://www.elidedbranches.com/
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on “Ask HN: Reading material on how to be a better software engineer?”Submitted Building and Motivating Engineering Teams (2016) as a story · 84 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on Startup Engineering Management for Young Bloods (2015) as a story · 80 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Product Culture Shift as a story · 68 points
HN discussionSubmitted Structural Lessons in Engineering as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted The virtues of Laziness and Impatience as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Take Home Interviews as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Product for Internal Platforms as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Product Culture Shift as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elided Branches: Product for Internal Platforms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elided Branches: Branching Is Easy. So? Git-Flow Is Not Agile as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are you out of alignment? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck? A Primer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on Startup Engineering Management for Young Bloods as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Framing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on Startup Engineering Management for Young Bloods as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guidelines for Respectful Use of AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Revisiting Manager READMEs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elided Branches: Revisiting Manager READMEs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Next Larger Context as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Next Larger Context as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Product Culture Shift as a story · 1 points
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