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Péter Szász
Personal blog · peterszasz.comcareerprogramming
Péter Szász's personal blog at peterszasz.com covers career and programming. Since 2024, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “How to Praise”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked by one HN commenter as a post about finding focus through intention and using a Pomodoro app with built-in focus features. The post is cited as a pointer, not judged.
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.
Sharing lessons learned from my Engineering Leadership experiences.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Praise2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-16
- Managing Impostor Syndrome as a New Engineering Manager2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-15
- How to Deal with Negative Behavior2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-05
- How to Lead Your Team When the House Is on Fire2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-05
- Finding Focus Through Intention (and a Timer App)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-06
- Engineering Managers' Guide to Effective Annual Feedback2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-08
What Hacker News says?
Sounds interesting! The Pomodoro app I'm using for focus times has this feature built in (I wrote about it here: https://peterszasz.com/finding-focus-through-intention-and-a... ), but before finding that, I would've definitely tried this. Improvement idea: Integrate with Apple Shortcuts, so the user could automate switching focus mode on and off, tied to changing Apple Focus mode.
Comment linking /finding-focus-through-intention-and-a-timer-app/
on “Show HN: Sinkzone DNS – Forwarder that blocks everything except your allowlist”Submitted How to Lead Your Team When the House Is on Fire as a story · 400 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Managers' Guide to Effective Annual Feedback as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Spot Red Flags When Interviewing for an Engineering Manager Position as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Managers' Guide to Effective Annual Feedback as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Can't I Focus? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Praise as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managing Impostor Syndrome as a New Engineering Manager as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Prepare for an Engineering Manager Role? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Lead Your Team When the House Is on Fire as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Praise as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managing Impostor Syndrome as a New Engineering Manager as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Deal with Negative Behavior as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Deal with Negative Behavior as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agentic Engineering Management as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding Focus Through Intention (and a Timer App) as a story · 1 points
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