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Ryan Peterman
Personal blog · developing.devcareerstartups
Ryan Peterman writes The Peterman Post, a personal blog at developing.dev about career and startups. Since 2023, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Skills 10x Engineers Have in Common”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one HN comment links to this blog, pointing to a post on tech lead manager (TLM) roles. The blog's posts are about engineering management, such as the responsibilities of new managers and technical leads.
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 learnings from the transparent career stories of technical people, written by an ex-software engineer @ Instagram.
Most-linked posts?
- Skills 10x Engineers Have in Common2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-11
- How to Onboard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-03
- Barbara Liskov, Turing Award'08: Data Abstraction, Dijkstra, Distributed Systems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-27
- What to buy that improves quality of life2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-27
What Hacker News says?
I wonder if, in this case, 10 is too few, and it'd been better with a technical person and manager at the same time? Maybe everyone manages themselves pretty well? Tech Lead Manager maybe? But I'm guessing. https://www.developing.dev/p/tech-lead-manager-tlm-roles
Comment linking /p/tech-lead-manager-tlm-roles
on “Mistakes as a new manager”Submitted New Grad to Staff at Meta in 3 years as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mistakes I Made as an Engineer, but Had to Become a Manager to See as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted What to buy that improves quality of life as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Barbara Liskov, Turing Award'08: Data Abstraction, Dijkstra, Distributed Systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What to Buy That Improves Quality of Life as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything I Know About Shipping Code Faster as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted "How I Ship Projects at Big Tech Companies" Response as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A New Era of Writing Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unlearning LeetCode as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Onboard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Only Three Classes That Mattered from My College Degree as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Confidence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Barbara Liskov: Data Abstraction, Dijkstra, Distributed Systems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Job Hopping Doesn't Make Sense as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Liberal Arts Major to Amazon Principal Engineer: Steve Huynh as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case Against Documenting Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Backchannel Alignment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Onboard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Skills 10x Engineers Have in Common as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Skills the Best Engineers Have in Common as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Engineering Templates I Wish I Had Sooner as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speedrunning Guide: Senior (L5) –> Staff (L6) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Stayed at Meta When All My Friends Left as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Engineers Need to Write as a story · 1 points
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