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Fernando Villalba
Personal blog · fernandovillalba.substack.comprogrammingcareer
Fernando Villalba writes The Personable Engineer, a personal blog at fernandovillalba.substack.com about programming and career. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts concern engineering organisation, such as how teams and silos should work together through APIs. The comment gives only bare links with a note that they may offer some perspective.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This publication deals with all things that help developers and engineers to do a better job by designing systems, processes, culture and tools that are human friendly and increase flow state. with hundreds of subscr
What Hacker News says?
Not saying these will solve your problems, but it may help give it a little perspective at least: https://www.opslevel.com/resources/optimizing-engineering-co... https://fernandovillalba.substack.com/p/improving-engineerin...
Comment linking /p/improving-engineering-communication
on “Silos are fine, as long as there is an API between them”Submitted It's not microservice or monolith; it's cognitive load as a story · 218 points
HN discussionSubmitted Silos are fine, as long as there is an API between them as a story · 166 points
HN discussionSubmitted A journey into the Linux proc filesystem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted DevOps: Don't destroy silos, transform them as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips for tackling large tech conferences (Like Kubecon) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion