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Matt Frisbie

Personal blog · mattfriz.com/#/outbursts · on HN as mfrisbiestartupsprogrammingculture

Matt Frisbie's personal blog at mattfriz.com covers startups, programming and culture. Since 2015, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Startup Engineer Unwittingly Implements Crappier Version of Open Source Project”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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16mentions?
10HN people?
2015–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Matt Frisbie's blog for its satirical, Onion-style articles about tech work, such as one about a startup engineer rebuilding an open source project in a worse form.

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.

Software Engineer and Bestselling Author

The author on HN?

mfrisbie · 962 karma · member since 2012

Personal site: mattfriz.com Company: trackandtrace.tools

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Startup Engineer Unwittingly Implements Crappier Version of Open Source Project
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-09-13
  2. Tech interview torture chamber
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-22
  3. The Tenacity of Tech Recruiters
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. chatmasta · 2017-03-07Recommends
    Wow, this blog has some painfully funny "The Onion"-style articles on it (click the links at the bottom) I particularly liked "Startup Engineer Unwittingly Implements Crappier Version of Open Source Project" [0] [0] http://www.mattfriz.com/#/outbursts/open-source-rehash

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    on “Tech Interview Torture Chamber”
  2. Submitted Tech Interview Torture Chamber as a story · 341 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://mattfriz.com

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    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”
  4. Submitted The Tenacity of Tech Recruiters as a story · 132 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Tenacity of Tech Recruiters as a story · 94 points

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  6. Submitted Tech interview torture chamber as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Tech Interview Torture Chamber as a story · 7 points

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  8. Submitted Startup Equity Handbook as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The Tenacity of Tech Recruiters as a story · 4 points

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  10. Submitted Startup Engineer Unwittingly Implements Crappier Version of Open Source Project as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Midsize Startup Impulsively Adopts Trendy JavaScript Framework to Rectify Technical Debt as a story · 3 points

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  12. Submitted Startup Adopts Trendy JavaScript Framework to Rectify Insurmountable Technical Debt as a story · 3 points

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  13. Submitted Startup Adopts Trendy JavaScript Framework to Rectify Insurmountable Technical Debt as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Startup Adopts JavaScript Framework in Effort to Rectify Insurmountable Technical Debt as a story · 3 points

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  15. Submitted Startup Engineer Unwittingly Implements Crappier Version of Open Source Project as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted We Created the Perfect Technical Hiring Process as a story · 2 points

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