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Matteo Vaccari
Personal blog · matteo.vaccari.nameprogrammingcareer
Matteo Vaccari's personal blog at matteo.vaccari.name covers programming and career. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post as the document the Frameworkless movement cites to justify its stance of following extreme programming rigidly. The comment cites it without judging the writing.
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.
A collection of writings about software development
What Hacker News says?
If you follow the Github rabbit hole down a little bit, the founders link to this document as a justification for their stance: http://matteo.vaccari.name/blog/archives/1019 Basically, it seems everything they believe is "follow extreme programming as rigidly as possible and it will alleviate the downsides to being as short sighted as possible."
Comment linking /blog/archives/1019
on “Frameworkless Movement”Submitted AI – Real and good example of Java modernization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Refactor to remove duplication as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted TDD is not finished until the code speaks as a story · 1 points
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