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Lunar Logic Blog
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Lunar Logic Blog is the company blog at blog.lunarlogic.io, writing about startups, programming and business. Since 2013, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “Optimal tests distribution on CI servers with Knapsack”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lunar Logic's blog as a reference on engineering practice: estimation categories, measuring team happiness and engineering management. Comments only cite or link the posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 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?
- Optimal tests distribution on CI servers with Knapsack2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-05
- Estimation? It's Complicated2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-02-14
- Refactoring React with Render Props [video / blog post]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-26
- You Don’t Need Superstar Developers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-21
What Hacker News says?
Setup deployment takes some time so I prepared blog post and an example Phoenix app how to do it with edeliver, distillery and Ansible playbooks http://blog.lunarlogic.io/phoenix-app-deployment-with-ansibl... We spent some time with friend doing research and trying to connect all pieces to make it work.
Comment linking /phoenix-app-deployment-with-ansible-playbooks-for-elixir
on “Elixir web development 101: collaborative todolist with realtime updates”Submitted Open Salaries: Outcomes as a story · 244 points
HN discussionI understand that we disagree, but Eric Evans also talks about how implementation is an inescapable part of design, as does Jack Reeves. So it follows, for me at least, that estimates can never be accurate. Recently posted on HN was a link to a post at Lunar Logic where estimation is basically broken into 3 categories: “NFC” (no clue), “TFB” (too big) or “1”. They explain why here [1]. This has been my experience ov…
Comment linking /2016/how-we-estimate-at-lunar-logic/
on “Useful engineering metrics and why velocity is not one of them”Submitted You Don’t Need Superstar Developers as a story · 87 points
HN discussionWe recently had a discussion with a client about estimation. From the developer point of view it's hard to predict the date because of many things which might happen during development and we are not aware yet about them at the moment when we need to declare the date. Now we are using historical data to predict how many calendar days the features scope may take with a specific confidence level. From the client persp…
Comment linking /2015/project-management-estimation/
on “Stop wasting time getting estimates right”Submitted The Functional Programmer – Keeping Repetitive Strain Injury at Bay [video] as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSort of reminds me of what we've done at my first work: http://blog.lunarlogic.io/2013/measurable-happiness/ ;)
Comment linking /2013/measurable-happiness/
on “Tracking Joy at Work”Submitted Starability.css – Accessible rating with animations on top as a story · 9 points
HN discussionWhen I released my first ruby gem for rspec test suite parallelisation I decided to write a short blog post about it. If you don't have your own blog you can write the post on your company blog. Thanks to that you will get some promotion because your company or colleagues can tweet or share it on Facebook. Another thing I did was to post my article on Reddit in the ruby group. This seems to be a validated way of get…
Comment linking /2014/parallel-your-specs-and-dont-waste-time/
on “Ask HN: When and how should I release my open source tool?”Submitted It’s Fine. Don’t Fight It. Six Steps to Programmer’s Zen as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI'm fairly new to management myself and I've been reading a lot of articles recently to improve my abilities. Here are some of the blogs and websites I've read (hopefully you'll find them useful as well): - https://www.gitprime.com/blog/newsletter/ - http://randsinrepose.com/archives/category/management/ - http://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/things-ive-learned-transit... - http://firstround.com/review/making-engineeri…
Comment linking /2017/effective-collaboration-superstar-developers/
on “Ask HN: How did you transition from an engineer to team lead/engineering manager”Submitted Ruby refresher: proc – lambda – block as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Phoenix app deployment with Ansible playbooks for Elixir as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mum and Developer: Resolving life’s conflicts as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Boost Your CSS Animation Performance with the Repaintless.css Library as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted MyPairingPal – ad-hoc experiment as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop guessing, use data (Or how we estimate at Lunar Logic) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evolution: from strategy pattern to functional concepts in Ruby as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extrinsic Rewards, Intrinsic Motivation and Kudos System as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted It’s Fine. Don’t Fight It. Six Steps to Programmer’s Zen as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Radical Transparency and Trust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I’ve learned by doing the Gilded Rose Kata (4 refactoring tips) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pg_morph – Add foreign keys for polymorphic relations with easy and much safer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Refactoring React with Render Props [video / blog post] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let your website cast the Northern Lights – Auroral as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transparency: Better, Easier, Fairer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Salaries: How as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Randomly Failing Cucumber Scenarios in Continuous Integration System as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Write Command-Line Applications in Ruby with GLI by Przemysław Dąbek as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Even More Diet for Fat Models to Have More OO Code as a story · 2 points
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