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Show HN: Swimming in Tech Debt

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157 points loumf | 2 comments | 05 Sep 25 05:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

This is the first half of my book, “Swimming in Tech Debt”. It is available at a pre-launch sale price of $0.99 (https://loufranco.com/tech-debt-book).

I have been working on it since January 2024. It is based on some posts in my blog, but expands on my ideas quite a bit.

In September 2024, excerpts appeared in Gergely Orosz’s Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, which helped me get a lot of feedback that expanded the book from my initial idea. This half is about what I expected to do before that —- the rest of the book goes into team and CTO practices.

1. viccis ◴[05 Sep 25 06:13 UTC] No.45135464[source]▶
This whole thing reads as AI written and doesn't really talk about "tech debt" in any brass tacks way.
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2. loumf ◴[05 Sep 25 12:03 UTC] No.45137568[source]▶
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 it is mine.