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Kellan Elliott-McCrea
Personal blog · kellanem.com/notescareerstartups
Kellan Elliott-McCrea's personal blog at kellanem.com covers career and startups. Since 2019, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Questions for a new technology”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Hello, world.
Most-linked posts?
- Questions for a new technology4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-02-07
- Push and Pull3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-09-06
- How to Plan?3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-10-10
- Towards an understanding of technical debt (2016)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-02-18
- Building Layoffs on a Healthy Foundation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-01
- Briefly: The Value of Meetings, and Some Alternatives2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-25
What Hacker News says?
That's fantastic. I have been lucky enough to cross paths with Ward Cunningham a couple of times and I am always struck by his insight. Kellan Elliot-McCrae has a similar take on technical debt. In his view there is very little technical debt as traditionally defined - an intentional decision to take a shortcut now that we remediate later. Instead, "tech debt" is typically a label applied to code that makes develope…
Comment linking /notes/towards-an-understanding-of-technical-debt
on “Tech Debt Metaphor Maximalism”Submitted Towards an understanding of technical debt (2016) as a story · 106 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Plan? as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Omniscience Expectation and the Mardenfeld as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Push and Pull as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Sizing Your Engineering Organizations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Push and Pull as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Plan as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasons Writing About Software Is Hard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Whys of Organizational Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Plan? (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Plan? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Push and Pull as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Push and Pull as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Briefly: The Value of Meetings, and Some Alternatives as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Briefly: The Value of Meetings, and Some Alternatives as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Layoffs on a Healthy Foundation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Layoffs on a Healthy Foundation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Towards an understanding of technical debt (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Friday wins and a case study in ritual design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Questions to ask when considering a new technology – according to ex-CTO of Etsy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Questions for a new technology as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Questions for a new technology as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Questions for a new technology as a story · 1 points
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