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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. natch2 ◴[05 Sep 25 14:00 UTC] No.45138696[source]▶

>>45135263 (OP) #

I don’t have time to write a more detailed review just yet, but given all the highly critical comments, I just wanted to put out there that I read quite a bit of this last night and thoroughly enjoyed it!

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2. loumf ◴[05 Sep 25 14:21 UTC] No.45138946[source]▶

>>45138696 (TP) #

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 little miffed that someone called it AI slop. I wrote every word (with professional editors helping). So, that hurts a little :)

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