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Luca Rossi
Personal blog · refactoring.fmcareerprogramming
Luca Rossi writes Refactoring, a personal blog at refactoring.fm about career and programming. Since 2020, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “In Praise of "Normal" Engineers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment links this site, in a thread about web routines, and it does not discuss the site's writing. Nothing in the comments says what it is valued for.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- In Praise of "Normal" Engineers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-13
- The Role of Tech Leads and Engineering Managers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-09
What Hacker News says?
Many folks in this thread are recommending which specific subreddits and blogs they like, but I thought I'd comment on the "how" of my web routine that I found useful. I use feedly.com to follow HN, blogs, subreddits, and news outlets. I split up "Backlogging" and "Reading" as separate activities, which I think promotes focus when reading. To "backlog", I browse through my feedly feed of HN/Reddit/blogpost titles, m…
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on “Ask HN: What's your web routine? which sites etc. do you frequent besides HN?”Submitted The True Meaning of Technical Debt (2020) as a story · 215 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taste vs. Skills as a story · 142 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Elon Right? as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Engineer to Executive Translation Layer as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Operating Cost of New Features as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Praise of "Normal" Engineers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Expectations vs. Happiness as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Three Stages of Engineering Teams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Have Few Meetings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Worst Possible Solution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My AI Coding Workflow as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Engineering Teams Are Using AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Praise of "Normal" Engineers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a Platform Engineering Team as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Drakon flowcharts, changing jobs, and boring tech as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to create long-lasting documentation for your team and your company as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Design a Communication Architecture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cost of Developing New Features as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Choosing Between Boring and Technology as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Role of Tech Leads and Engineering Managers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted About Tech Leads vs. Engineering Managers as a story · 1 points
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