Force multiplier. Outcome improver. Decision sharer. Developer, leader, coach. agilein3minut.es podcaster. Musician. Bad poet (award-winning).
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Teammate on most recent team gave me this parting feedback: “I learned a ton, we got lots done, our team dynamics were awesome, and I’ve never felt this kind of team feeling before.”
If your business makes software, I might be good for your business.
Did you know I'm looking for my next employer? Here's what's on offer:
1. Technical breadth and depth
2. Proven delivery experience
3. Thoughtful communication and teaching
4. Bridge-building across roles, silos
5. Team culture and developer happiness
6. Respected industry voice
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A principle that’s hard for me to not apply, for better or worse:
Faced with a problem, don’t just work to solve it. Instead, figure out what would have made it so easy that someone would have already solved it by now. Make it so. Then be the lucky someone.
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In Berlin Monday. Not sure how much time I’ll have free — possibly none — but if you’ll be around, let me know.
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After a much-needed break from work, I’m pleased to be back at it. In my new role I’ll get to:
1. Make full use of my particular set of skills
AND (this is a big and)
2. Have their results be appreciated.
Here’s what I’ll see when I occasionally go to the office.
ALT NYC skyline
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Once I'd shown myself serious about piano, my parents bargain-hunted this 1923 Baldwin baby for a few grand.
ALT A couple ivories missing
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It whispered Debussy to our music-loving dog as he passed. It sang Medtner to my parents on their 50th. And for its own 100th it held out well enough for Daily and then Weekly Piano Miniatures.
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Always loved the 11” MacBook Air. For tray table usage, still undefeated.
ALT 11” MacBook Air on a tray table
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Even though I know to expect this, there’s always a @MarcAndreHam moment that catches me out. Years ago, for instance, a pedaled downward gliss with every note enunciated, waves stacking so precisely as to sound electronic. Tonight’s moment was in the Etude-Tableau.
(& Medtner!)
ALT Big Steinway from first row
ALT Haydn, Zappa, Wolpe, Oswald, Medtner, Rachmaninoff
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Live-upgraded MacPro1,1 NAS to OMV 8. Reboot failed. Of course I forgot something about 32-bit UEFI grub2.
Booted 8’s ISO without any special grub flags. (On this box, whoa.) Easy repair.
These were my final big questions. I now trust this system with my data. Blog post soon.
ALT Please reboot the system, they said
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Today’s #pkgsrc hacking:
1. Get fastfetch and all of its dependencies building on Mac OS 10.9 #MavericksForever
2. Include pkgsrc in the package report
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It’s hard to fix something because it’s easy to break something else?
That’s your clue: refactor first.
(Special case of the general KFB wisdom “First make the change easy, then make the easy change.”)
#Refactoring #ExtremeProgramming #XPLives
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Amitai Schleier (@schmonz@schmonz.com) retweeted
Periodic reminder: if you’re intrigued by a job posting touting #ExtremeProgramming, maybe it’s what it claims to be. I hope so. But maybe not.
Hit up your network before applying. If you’re reading this, I’m in your network.
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If #EngineeringLeadership doesn’t believe neurospicy folks can strengthen a team, they’re simply wrong. Maybe they’ll learn.
But if a supposed #ExtremeProgramming expert doesn’t grok this, such remarkably deep failure of understanding indicates ignorance AND profound obstinacy.
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On one hand (the hand I always start with), I did not accomplish all I intended for this trip.
On the other hand (the hand I often manage to continue on to), I was able to make the trip, am already booked for the next one, and can easily imagine it’ll go better.
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Amitai Schleier (@schmonz@schmonz.com) retweeted
If you don’t know how to care for people and don’t care to learn, by definition — no matter how convincingly you write, speak, and code — you are not an #ExtremeProgramming expert. And when you take a power position and try to enact XP among humans, we can see you’re a charlatan.
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