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Frank Tisellano
Personal blog · ft.io/blog · on HN as ftiocareerstartupsdesign
Frank Tisellano's personal blog at ft.io covers career, startups and design. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “The Cynical PM Framework, a business-first approach to product”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
Only a bare link to the blog homepage appears in the thread, with no comment on the writing. Nothing in the comments says what the posts cover or how they are valued.
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Frank Tisellano
Most-linked posts?
- The Cynical PM Framework, a business-first approach to product2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-02-10
What Hacker News says?
https://www.ft.io
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted ML market predictions from a former Google PM as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSure! https://www.ft.io I use the awesome Lektor static site generator and publish to Netlify, which is one of the best products I’ve used in a long, long time.
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on “Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)”Submitted The Cynical PM Framework, a business-first approach to product as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://www.ft.io/blog/
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on “Small Projects, Big Companies”Submitted A simple commenting system for my static site generator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you're just building a website — i.e., not a highly interactive web application — here's what I'd recommend. I've been building websites since 1998, FWIW, although I'm now a stupid product manager, so take this with a grain of salt. 1. Write semantic HTML in a sane, human-centric order. Do not write any CSS yet. 2. Open your new web page in a browser. Imagine CSS doesn’t exist and you’re stuck with whatever the b…
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on “It’s 2019 and I Still Make Websites with My Bare Hands”Submitted The Cynical PM Framework, a business-first approach to product as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI generate the Bookmarks [1] section of my static site from the public bookmarks in my Pinboard account. Since I host with Netlify, I've written a lightweight Netlify function that looks at my Pinboard account for changes. If there are changes, it simply re-runs the static site build. During the build, Lektor, the static site generator, runs a custom plugin I've written that generates the link blog page from the Pin…
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on “Link Blog in a Static Site”Submitted Interviewing Product Managers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI use and love Lektor! Built-in CMS, simple templating system, and a lot of flexibility if you want it (but with a great Quickstart option). Even as a dummy Product Manager, I've been able to write two plugins[0] for it over the last couple weeks (I'm one of the many laid off folks with a wee bit of extra time), and it's been a joy. Definitely frustrating moments — the docs could be better — but the maintainers have…
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on “Minimum Viable Hugo – No CSS, no JavaScript, 1 static HTML page to start you off”Submitted "Beautiful design" doesn't matter for the reasons you think as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI wrote a post about how to make a good, clean website on my...clean website. TL;DR: Don’t worry about it. Just write. For more: https://www.ft.io/blog/good-website/
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on “Ask HN: Best Way to Create a Clean Personal Website?”Submitted The Cynical PM Framework, a business-first approach to product as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://ft.io — mostly blogging about product management.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted The Cynical PM Framework, a business-first approach to product as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRecently undertook a similar effort on my blog[0], but I took a different route. Instead of using currentColor, I embedded an image-specific `<style>` declaration directly in the SVG file. Upsides: the SVG is more portable, it's more self-contained, and I can be sure that, irrespective of how much I customize a given image for dark/light mode, those styles will always be declared in the same place -- right in the fi…
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on “Inlining SVGs for Dark Mode”Submitted ML Market Predictions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://ft.io/blog/ I blog about Product. Few nerdy meta things in there too. Most popular post is the Cynical PM framework, about focusing on the business role of your product. https://www.ft.io/blog/cynical-pm/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Shift left on go to market to build better products as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shift left on go to market to build better products as a story · 1 points
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