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Lou Franco
Personal blog · loufranco.com/blog · on HN as loumfprogrammingstartups
Lou Franco's personal blog at loufranco.com covers programming and startups. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Waterfall Is a Myth”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lou Franco's posts on Agile and software process, such as 'Waterfall is a myth', in threads about Agile and its critics. The comments cite these posts without evaluating the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Waterfall Is a Myth3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-09-02
- My "Show HN" Follow-Up for "Swimming in Tech Debt"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-15
What Hacker News says?
Waterfall as criticised by Agile followers is mostly a myth. It is a mythical monster designed to instill fear and guide developers along the righteous path of Agile. Of course enlightenment can only be reached with expensive Agile training consultants as you are doomed to fail if you walk alone in the valley of the shadow of project failure. https://loufranco.com/blog/waterfall-is-a-myth
Comment linking /blog/waterfall-is-a-myth
on “Agile and the long crisis of software”Submitted Why I think the Amazon App Store will be a better deal for developers as a story · 28 points
HN discussionThere will be a print book about a month after the Kindle version launches. It takes time to get the formatted properly (using a contractor). It will be offered for the Amazon minimum price to start -- if you want a notification, sign up on my site: https://loufranco.com/tech-debt-book .
Comment linking /tech-debt-book
on “Show HN: Swimming in Tech Debt”Submitted Waterfall Is a Myth as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI passed 20 years in December and wrote this about it: https://loufranco.com/blog/it-was-20-years-ago-today I don't have a lot of readers, but the blog opened some doors for me (and continues to).
Comment linking /blog/it-was-20-years-ago-today
on “20 Years of Blogging on my own website”Submitted SOPA Solution: Block Congressional IPs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAgile these days is more like a particular sort of religious cult, where's there's no way to disprove the central mantras and there's this eeeevil mythical[0] enemy the cult is meant to overcome. The solution is always more of the cult's mantras. That said, if some company succeeds with an officially non-Agile process, they are still being Agile since they chose the process suited for them. So Agile is always right.…
Comment linking /blog/waterfall-is-a-myth
on “Has Agile Become Addiction to Instant Gratification?”Submitted Great Works of Software (Poetry Edition) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLearn to sketch UML (not use it as a formal development language) -- it's incredibly useful if you don't get too caught up in formalities. "UML Distilled" by Martin Fowler is a tiny book that teaches you enough to sketch it. I made a UML cheatsheet a while ago for a talk: http://loufranco.com/blog/uml-cheatsheet
Comment linking /blog/uml-cheatsheet
on “Ask HN: Is UML still relevant today?”Submitted App.net is Bring Your Own Back-end (BYOBE) for mobile apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIs there a way to change my feed. You picked up my podcast feed, not the blog one. It should be https://loufranco.com/feed
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on “Show HN: Hacker News User Blogroll”Submitted LGPL and the iPhone as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://loufranco.com
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Siri AI Is a Malware Vector as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://loufranco.com
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on “I found a IT jobs thanks to this blog, what I’m doing”Submitted My "Show HN" Follow-Up for "Swimming in Tech Debt" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://loufranco.com Mostly about software development and writing.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted My "Show HN" Follow-Up for "Swimming in Tech Debt" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Invest 10% of a team (not of each dev) to pay back tech debt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 0-Liner as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted XKCD Tooltip Bookmarklet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing fishbike: Pure procedural programming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing #twitstarter as a story · 1 points
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