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Liz Keogh
Personal blog · lizkeogh.comprogrammingproductivity
Liz Keogh's personal blog at lizkeogh.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2009, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “"Beyond TDD: Spike and Stabilize"”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-23, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Liz Keogh's writing on agile and BDD, including her Cynefin framework post for developers and her piece translating TDD to BDD. Commenters credit these with helping them understand the ideas.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- "Beyond TDD: Spike and Stabilize"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-19
What Hacker News says?
The Cynefin framework can be really useful for having this conversation. https://lizkeogh.com/cynefin-for-developers/ How well do the people executing the project know the codebase, data, and tech stack they're working with? How understood and confirmed are the requirements? The less those things are true, the less certain you can be with estimates. At the extreme, all you can do is poke the system and commit to pro…
Comment linking /cynefin-for-developers/
on “How to drive away your best engineers”Submitted "Beyond TDD: Spike and Stabilize" as a story · 24 points
HN discussionIf you are in software dev worth reading http://lizkeogh.com/2012/03/11/cynefin-for-devs/
Comment linking /2012/03/11/cynefin-for-devs/
on “How to choose?”Submitted Cynefin for Devs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLiz Keogh's "Translating TDD to BDD" was really helpful to me when I was coming from a test-driven development perspective and just starting to wrap my head around BDD. http://lizkeogh.com/2009/11/06/translating-tdd-to-bdd/
Comment linking /2009/11/06/translating-tdd-to-bdd/
on “Steak 1.0 released or Why Cucumber might not be your best choice”Submitted Estimation anti-patterns as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou may be interested in an essay I wrote a few years ago. http://dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2009/12/29... . "and are not eager to present that publicly" I think http://lizkeogh.com/2012/06/24/beyond-test-driven-developmen... is a good expression of that. The author used TDD as a way to understand how to develop testable software, but then writes "Here’s a confession: I don’t always write my tests fi…
Comment linking /2012/06/24/beyond-test-driven-development/
on “Ask HN: Examples of famous OSS created using red-green-refactor TDD?”Submitted Rules of Coaching as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIn case you haven't noticed, both men and women (including prominent women like Caterina Fake) called out Yahoo on this event. And previous occasions have been no different, with plenty of women raising their voices. For example, after last spring's CouchDB talk we heard from several women: http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2009/04/25/why-rails-is-still-a... http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-...…
Comment linking /2009/04/29/i-am-not-a-pr0n-star-avoiding-unavoidable-associations/
on a deleted threadSubmitted Cynefin for Developers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scenarios Using Custom DSLs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Third Conversational Pattern in BDD as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Third Conversational Pattern in BDD as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Off the Charts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deriving gherkin from real conversations as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Real Cost of Changes in Software as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Feature Injection and handling technical stories as a story · 1 points
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