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Tim Ottinger
Personal blog · agileotter.blogspot.comprogrammingcareer
Tim Ottinger writes Agile Otter Blog, a personal blog at agileotter.blogspot.com about programming and career. Since 2010, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Is it my fault if you can't handle the truth?”. 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
Linked by one commenter with only its title, "Is it my fault if you can't handle the truth", in a thread about Culture Amp retiring Elm. No comment says anything about the writing itself.
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.
Tim Ottinger's thoughts on Software Development.
Most-linked posts?
- Is it my fault if you can't handle the truth?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-06
- Agile Otter Blog: There Is No Automatic Reset for Engineering2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-04
What Hacker News says?
“Is it my fault if you can't handle the truth” - http://agileotter.blogspot.com/2019/09/is-it-my-fault-you-ca... discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35475482
Comment linking /2019/09/is-it-my-fault-you-cant-handle-truth.html
on “Why and How We Retired Elm at Culture Amp”Submitted Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014) as a story · 891 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maximize value, not quantity as a story · 148 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is it my fault if you can't handle the truth? as a story · 64 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ticket Is Not the Work as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does AI help us care less? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is working faster not working? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How much rework do you want? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agile Otter Blog: There Is No Automatic Reset for Engineering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Profitable Struggle and Unprofitable Struggle as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leadership as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grandpa Tim Tells A Scary Story as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meddling, Oversight, and Agile, Oh My as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted There Is No Automatic Reset for Engineering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Irresponsibility: Estimates and NoEstimates as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Preserving Wasteful Practices (2011) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Splitting User Stories – A Resource List as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Company: Can we talk about it? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Purists, Pragmatists, Iconoclast, egotist as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Can Revive Agile as a story · 1 points
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