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Chelsea Troy
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Chelsea Troy's personal blog at chelseatroy.com covers programming and career. Since 2015, 42 different Hacker News readers have linked it 85 times, most often “Why do remote meetings suck so much? (2018)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Chelsea Troy's blog for posts on remote and in-person meetings, code review, self-study, and AI's effect on engineering jobs, plus a series working through Crafting Interpreters.
- Recommended for · 4 comments
- Called "highly worth reading" and "really enjoyed" for her Crafting Interpreters posts; a "great article" on meetings and a "good explanation" of AI's impact on
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why do remote meetings suck so much? (2018)8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2018-04-02
- Decision-Making Pitfalls for Technical Leaders3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-10-16
- How I prepare a talk for a tech conference (2022)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-04
- How does AI impact my job as a programmer?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-27
- Does AI Benefit the World?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-08-30
- How do tech companies make money?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-16
- Questions for Prospective Managers2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-13
- What's the point of tech conferences? – Chelsea Troy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-24
- How do we make remote meetings not suck? (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-20
- How do we build the future with AI?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-24
What Hacker News says?
Also, I think it's highly worth reading https://chelseatroy.com/2018/04/20/leveling-up-a-guide-for-p...
Comment linking /2018/04/20/leveling-up-a-guide-for-programmers/
on “Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?”Submitted How I prepare a talk for a tech conference (2022) as a story · 237 points
HN discussionChelsea Troy, a Staff Engineer at Mozilla, keeps a blog where a lot of her posts work through various aspects of this book. I've really enjoyed reading them. https://chelseatroy.com/
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on “Crafting Interpreters – Web Version”Submitted How do we make remote meetings not suck? (2018) as a story · 109 points
HN discussionThis (pre-pandemic!) blog post highlights exactly what you describe--that active moderation is needed to make remote meetings successful, and that there are lessons for in-person meetings also: https://chelseatroy.com/2018/03/29/why-do-remote-meetings-su...
Comment linking /2018/03/29/why-do-remote-meetings-suck-so-much/
on “What we lost”Submitted Building a Parser as a story · 99 points
HN discussionA caucus is defined and discussed in the previous post: “A caucus (and specifically an unmoderated caucus) is a type of meeting with no rules about who talks in what order or for how long.” Agreed the post is confusing and could have used a summary of the preceding piece to be intelligible. https://chelseatroy.com/2018/03/29/why-do-remote-meetings-su...
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on “How do we make remote meetings not suck? (2018)”Submitted The Oxymoron of “Data-Driven Innovation” as a story · 95 points
HN discussionIt's too late to edit this comment, but, on the theme of "Make yourself a Tech Lead of a bunch of (AI) developers" - this article[0] is a good explanation [0] https://chelseatroy.com/2024/05/26/how-does-ai-impact-my-job...
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on “Ask HN: I'm getting overwhelmed by AI. How to cope?”Submitted Why Compilers Don’t Autocorrect “Obvious” Parse Errors as a story · 64 points
HN discussionChelsea Troy has a great article describing this exact problem with meetings, and it applies to both remote & in-person meetings: https://chelseatroy.com/2018/03/29/why-do-remote-meetings-su... And then she describes the solution - assign a moderator to your meetings: https://chelseatroy.com/2018/04/05/how-do-we-make-remote-mee... Just like we all know that meetings are better with agendas, notes, and action items,…
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on “Return to Office Enters the Desperation Phase”Submitted How does AI impact my job as a programmer? as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI'm going one-up you in craziness, and suggest Chelsea Troy's idea[1] that you don't bother commenting - after checking out the PR locally you just make the changes and then update the PR. Sure, there's still discussion when needed, but otherwise take it as a collaborative effort where you're asynchronously pair-programming. [1] https://chelseatroy.com/2019/12/18/reviewing-pull-requests/
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on “git-appraise – Distributed Code Review for Git”Submitted How to Be a 10x Developer as a story · 44 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Programmers' Identity Crisis: how do we use our powers for 'good'? as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why do remote meetings suck so much? (2018) as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Handling errors with grace (and sometimes without it) as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted What do we do with the Twitter-shaped hole in the internet? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted What layoffs teach us about technical leadership as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Best Practice” is not a reason to do something as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How does AI impact my job as a programmer? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why do remote meetings suck so much? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Conversation with Tim O'Reilly about Generative AI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What layoffs teach us about technical leadership as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does AI Benefit the World? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the Psychology of “Tech Money” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Functional vs. OO: The Debate That Imprecise Language Destroyed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quantifying Technical Debt as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons from Space: Edge Free Programming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Question: How does Git detect renames? as a story · 3 points
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