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Max Countryman
Personal blog · maxcountryman.com/articles · on HN as llambdaprogrammingcareer
Max Countryman's personal blog at maxcountryman.com covers programming and career. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “A Framework for Prioritizing Tech Debt”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only linked post is "let it fail", an article on this blog that an HN commenter says was discussed earlier on HN. The comment does not describe its content or judge 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.
Notes by Max Countryman.
Most-linked posts?
- A Framework for Prioritizing Tech Debt3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-01-19
- Let It Fail3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-23
- Delivering Value with Platform Engineering2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-27
What Hacker News says?
sometime ago this article was discussed here: "let it fail" : https://www.maxcountryman.com/articles/let-it-fail
Comment linking /articles/let-it-fail
on “Suits ignored IT's warnings, so the tech team went for the neck”Submitted Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Framework for Prioritizing Tech Debt as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three Years to Shake Your Head as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Publish Your Drafts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Publish Your Drafts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Deno Ready for Primetime? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Framework for Prioritizing Tech Debt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Framework for Prioritizing Tech Debt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Need to Talk About Vercel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted People-First Leadership as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Value Modes and Mud Balls as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Value Modes and Mud Balls as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted High Leverage One-on-Ones as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking Free from Results-Oriented Thinking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking Free from Results-Oriented Thinking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Framework for Prioritizing Tech Debt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delivering Value with Platform Engineering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mindset for New Engineering Managers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let It Fail as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let It Fail as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let It Fail as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taming AWS Costs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anatomy of the Update Email as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data for Decisions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delivering Value with Platform Engineering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grow in Public as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Indie Web Stack of the Future as a story · 1 points
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