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by loumf 1y ago
But, then where would you host your website?
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by loumf 1y ago
Looking at your source, I was introduced to Odin -- now I want to hear a lot more about that.
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by loumf 1y ago
My priority is Kindle, then print. Then I will look into other formats. At that point I will have a PDF (that was used for Print) and an epub, so it will primarily be driven by interest. The best way to be notified by it is to be on my list
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by loumf 1y ago
Thanks. I hope it’s useful to you
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by loumf 1y ago
Thanks. That’s my belief as well. I would have loved to come up with a better term. In the next two parts of the book I try to convince managers to give some autonomous time to engineers to do whatever tech debt projects they think is best.
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by loumf 1y ago
Thanks! You can buy it now for a buck. But, if you are waiting for print, that will be about a month later.
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by loumf 1y ago
Love that book. Also, "A Philosophy of Software Design" by John Ousterhout
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by loumf 1y ago
Agreed. I am pretty sure that they are going to look at it though. I am in close contact with them.
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by loumf 1y ago
For some debt, yes, it starts with a shortcut. I want to talk about other kinds of debt-like problems that have nothing to do with that. Where you did everything right, but the world just changed.
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by loumf 1y ago
I find helpthisbook.com to be helpful in getting comments on the book and sharing it. I'll send this feedback to them.
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by loumf 1y ago
I struggled with this. I didn't have the guts to not use "tech debt" in the title and throughout the book. I wanted to coin a new term, but didn't find anything that worked. There are parts of the debt analogy that (I th
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by loumf 1y ago
I do wish HN had a culture of being ok with linking to supporting material on our own sites. I have been blogging for 20+ years -- some of those posts are relevant (and I think useful). I also mostly write for myself, but I want to get more
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by loumf 1y ago
No worries at all. I really do appreciate constructive feedback. I put every draft of the book out there that I could, and this is my best version of making the book I wanted to make that resonated with at least some people. I totally get t
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by loumf 1y ago
This is why I shared half the book. I will probably continue to do so for at least a few months (even after the book is launched). I am sharing a lot of the content of the next six chapters on my email list and will probably always have tha
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by loumf 1y ago
Thanks! I put up half the book so that only people that liked it would buy it. I am ok with it not being for everyone. I got about 70 sales overnight, so I am totally fine with some negative comments as well. Most are constructive. I am a l
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by loumf 1y ago
The analogy I am going for is the water resistance. The debt payment is the burst of momentum you get from pushing off the wall. I think of tech debt as something you are dealing with all of the time and something inevitable. I don't l
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by loumf 1y ago
If you are interested, my writing group is doing a free, 6-week (1-hour on Thursday) accountability group sprint. We spend most of the time writing (quick chat at the beginning and end) https://pages.usefulbooks.com/writing-
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by loumf 1y ago
I started writing the book in Obsidian, but realized I needed something a little better. So, I took it to Scrivener, which is where the first draft was completely developed (it can maintain references and a TOC somewhat). But once I needed
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by loumf 1y ago
There will be a print book about a month after the Kindle version launches. It takes time to get the formatted properly (using a contractor). It will be offered for the Amazon minimum price to start -- if you want a notification, sign up o
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by loumf 1y ago
No problem. I hope you find some useful tips in it.
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by loumf 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback. The reason that I put up half the book and offered it for $1 to start was to make sure that people that didn't like it wouldn't buy it. I struggled with this opening and it definitely could have been bette
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by loumf 1y ago
It was not AI written. I took 18 months to write it. I documented a lot of that on my blog in real time and in LinkedIn. I have posted several drafts of (hopefully) increasing quality publicly. I get that you might not like my writing, but
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by loumf 1y ago
I did submit as ShowHN. I don’t know how and when this got edited.
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by loumf 1y ago
Sorry to hear that. Fair.
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by loumf 1y ago
I will give this feedback to the helpthisbook people. I am sure they will appreciate it.
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by loumf 1y ago
I did not use AI to write this. I paid professional editors to help me get it polished. There were 4 rounds with 5 different people. I also got lots of grammar/typo comments using helpthisbook (hundreds of readers pointing out errors).
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Show HN: Swimming in Tech Debt(helpthisbook.com)
167 points by loumf 1y ago|73 comments
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Show HN: Swimming in Tech Debt(helpthisbook.com)
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by loumf 1y ago
You should do this for apps even if you trust them. One issue with permissions is that they apply to the entire app, including any third-party dependencies. Lots of apps use libraries given to them by advertising services -- they notoriousl
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by loumf 1y ago
Because when you quote someone, you should credit them. It's not believable that they don't know the source of the quote because it's trivial to find.

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