Stdlib: a Library of Frameworks, Templates, and Guides for Technical Leadership
Posted3 months agoActive3 months ago
debuggingleadership.comTechstory
skepticalmixed
Debate
60/100
Technical LeadershipResource LibraryInformation Organization
Key topics
Technical Leadership
Resource Library
Information Organization
A website offering a library of frameworks, templates, and guides for technical leadership was shared, sparking discussion about its naming, organization, and usefulness.
Snapshot generated from the HN discussion
Discussion Activity
Light discussionFirst comment
2h
Peak period
4
10-11h
Avg / period
2
Comment distribution18 data points
Loading chart...
Based on 18 loaded comments
Key moments
- 01Story posted
Oct 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM EDT
3 months ago
Step 01 - 02First comment
Oct 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM EDT
2h after posting
Step 02 - 03Peak activity
4 comments in 10-11h
Hottest window of the conversation
Step 03 - 04Latest activity
Oct 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM EDT
3 months ago
Step 04
Generating AI Summary...
Analyzing up to 500 comments to identify key contributors and discussion patterns
ID: 45458249Type: storyLast synced: 11/20/2025, 12:26:32 PM
Want the full context?
Jump to the original sources
Read the primary article or dive into the live Hacker News thread when you're ready.
How do you chose content? Do you manually identify high quality resources and then just scrape and ai summarize all the content they post? Or is it more granular?
You can add via a URL and it attempts an AI summary of the website, or you can write your own.
what part of you income is from making solution via coding/programming/drawing-writing specs? i doubt even 25%.
all of above titles are max 25% at best.
but looking into tags and content, it is not far different from enterprise agile middlemanagment type of thing content.
I'm thinking the SEO work is not insurmountable because if you were to draw a Venn diagram of std lib meanings:
There's zero overlap with this specific case.Maybe worded differently: When you say stdlib, it already depends on the context today. This new context has zero implementation overlap with those existing contexts but it is the same concept.
Yeah I think this is a great name and worth the small SEO battle.
For a library, I expected something like a card index, with an ontology reflecting the kinds of things users want. Instead, the tags (except for 2) reflect the media type. The index (however implemented) should both afford navigation and provide an overview of coverage. (Ideally I could select 2+ tags and get their intersection, especially for orthogonal features like media and topic.) It seems like the ontology could itself be a community-developed list, with discussions/issues for managing it and tagging items.
wrt name, unlike other commenters I actually really like the play on "stdlib". If indeed it were standardized (and federated?), a community library for technical guidance would be a great professional practice for us all. We need something more structured than personal blogs and less political than standards bodies or open-source umbrellas.
(I personally would ditch the "leadership" spin, both because IC's can lead technically (and have to, effectively), and because it has that career-promoting smell (hucksters pushing legions to sell shovels to a vanishingly few actual miners). I can see how "leadership" might draw readers, but I'd be more interested in drawing good contributors - then readers will follow.)