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.

https://schmonz.com/snac/schmonz/p/1750949585.435936

@joeyh until now I had managed to avoid any of Wordling. This is what finally what got me.

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@craigmaloney what were a few notable improvements?

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Focused on our next notqmail release. But first, taking a moment to appreciate this:

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When Kyle Lukoff became the first person ever to get both a Stonewall AND a Newbery (!), I became the first person ever to have both a “good” poem committed to memory AND a “bad” poem transmuted to a good children’s book by a Newstoneberywall author (%#@). This goes on my resume.

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Dramatic scenes unfolding.

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Today’s jaunt.

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@dch it is certainly high in various nutritive values

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#Medtner would have been 142 today, despite how weird that would have been, and probably pretty hard to hold a conversation with, besides.

Fortunately he lived a more typical human lifespan and used it to compose music like this:

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/107441444306734083

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@joeyh guess it was an effective staging environment

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Intermittently rainy day out.

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No pictures.

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Current status: seeing metaphors everywhere.

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An unexpected New York connection. Or rather, since I’d heard of him in New York, an unexpected Minden connection.

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Gribenizing the Christmas goose cracklings, to be followed by cooking a steak in the rendered fat. Not at all clear: which part I’m more excited about.

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Sometime between Christmas and year's end, Agile in 3 Minutes will reach 100k downloads. Stay tuned for various celebratory events!

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Frostier but (no, seriously) sunnier.

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@seasidetesting exactly how it went for me the day after, and the day after that (today) almost entirely normal.

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Just about over being booster’d. Appreciating this rare quiet moment.

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The cross-rhythm throughout Alla Reminiscenza is 3 against 8. If you listen to the right hand, it unfolds squarely. If you listen to the left hand, it's almost waltz-ish sometimes.

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BTW, Western art music has lots of 2:3 cross-rhythm, and 3:4 is pretty familiar too. But this??

The cross-rhythm is not a ploy for attention. If you weren’t alerted to listen for it, you might not notice. With Medtner, no effect is ever forced, and no compositional element is ever out of balance. Dude only ever brought his A game. Incidentally, Alla Reminiscenza is in A. 🎶

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The first of Op. 38 is Sonata-Reminiscenza, which changed the course of my life (https://schmonz.com/2007/11/14/medtner-music-and-me for the story, https://youtu.be/Dt7xzgkIQR4 for the live performance) and which sets out thematic material elaborated in the remaining 7 shorter pieces.

To close the set, Alla Reminiscenza does a remarkable amount of thematically and emotionally unifying work in its 3 minutes. (Oh hey, great length for dense compositions!)

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The final piece in Medtner’s Op. 38 set, Alla Reminiscenza (“as a reminiscence”). Recorded in 2007.

The room with the giant Steinway in Barnard Hall at Columbia was usually locked, but we got lucky here. Peep the stacking sound of the closing arpeggio. https://youtu.be/1bCYxXZCU04

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Tuesday at #jcjug, we bring you Bob Allen with "Coaching Teams to Do the Impossible (as they see it, and without straining their backs)".

Join us: https://www.meetup.com/Jersey-City-Java-User-Group-JC-JUG/events/282467826/

(Heads up, timeslot is not as EU-friendly as usual. Believe me, I'm very aware 😜)

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@joeyh saaaame

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“One of the best online sessions I have participated in at least this whole year”

“Best talk of any sort I’ve been to (online or otherwise) in a very long time”

Which? Esther Derby and Matthew Carlson’s discussion yesterday with #SoCTAgile.

Watch? Here: https://youtu.be/XuZ39j7UE20

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@CodingItWrong@mastodon.technology I’d better stop now

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@CodingItWrong@mastodon.technology subtitle: How to Grow Culture Organically

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@CodingItWrong@mastodon.technology or even Gouda to Grate

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Dear lazyweb-by-proxy: someone asked me "hey I want to get a device to run OpenBSD for my home router. No wifi needed. Do you have any suggestions?"

Do you have any suggestions?

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Monday, join Esther Derby and Matthew Carlson in conversation on "There Are No More Early Adopters of #Agile" — and what this means for your change efforts.

Timezone-compatible with many land-covered parts of Earth. Free.

Don't miss this #SoCTAgile. RSVP: https://schmonz.com/talk/2021-soctagile-november/

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Familiar with #JUnit? You might see some uses for https://touca.io. Know your way around #ApprovalTests? Touca is similar, but with some useful twists.

Watch Pejman Ghorbanzade explain and demonstrate for #jcjug: https://youtu.be/Nn5We6yQ8Kg

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In this update:

- Details on next week's #jcjug meetup
- No #PubMob from me on Friday, do #GDCR21 instead
- Only two remaining Legacy Open Source Fridays this year
- [buried lede] I have non-zero but rather limited availability for new clients

https://schmonz.com/talk/2021-jcjug-november/

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Happen to know any organizations needing help creating or managing any of these?

1. Cross-platform Unix environments (#pkgsrc)
2. Statically generated websites (#ikiwiki)
3. Email services (@notqmail)

Please connect us. I can work on these at very reasonable corporate rates. 💖

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I’m creating learning experiences, Open Source code, and combinations of the two. Want to offer a bit of financial support? Some popular options:

1. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/schmonz
2. GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/schmonz
3. PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=2657VBKRKHGY2

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Well, there went October. What have I been working on in public?

- #EnsembleProgramming with Legacy Open Source Fridays #PubMob
- Organizing #JCJUG and now also #SoCTAgile
- Staying on top of #pkgsrc platforms and packages

Details: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57678431

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@reinhard_codes sweet!

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From a lone, long-held vantage point, I'm guaranteed to triangulate reality poorly.

Moving around on the ladder of abstraction is a basic sense-making skill.

Most orgs are designed to minimize these sense-making opportunities.

I often encourage individuals and teams to revolt.

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Missed yesterday's Southern Connecticut #Agile Meetup on "Three Frames of #SoftwareDevelopment"? Here's the video, with a link to the slides:

https://youtu.be/0_Jre_46fBg

A thought-provoking presentation by Steve Doubleday and a perfect frame through which to reintroduce this meetup.

#SoCTAgile

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When I meet a new team, I’m fascinated by them, which is good because it helps me do my job.

I’m also fascinated by what happens for me when I meet a new team. There’s so much to see, so much it might signify, so much to discern from the unseen. Tests my powers of perception.

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@joeyh sweet

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Just in time for Halloween, my sites support Dark Mode. Orange links on black backgrounds, of course.

https://latentagility.com

https://schmonz.com

https://agilein3minut.es

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I run two meetups now.

Welcome back to the Southern Connecticut Agile Meetup! This week, we're pleased to bring you Steve Doubleday with the surely uncontroversial "Why #SAFe Isn't: Three Frames of Software Development".

Bring your friends and coworkers, popcorn, and brain.

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Southern-Connecticut-Agile-Meetup/events/281524401/

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Atop a mountain pass in mainland Spain, I had to get out and look. And look. January 2008, probably on the road to Grazalema. #latergram

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This evening.

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This afternoon.

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Hey towels, you done good. Take the day off.

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Maybe the last beach day.

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Having trouble understanding the Orona numbers in my area.

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The Punther (2005)

Ogden Nash writes like a poet,
Except tersely, so you can stow it.
Should you behold a Nash oeuvre,
Prepare to swevre.
Better yet, if you've a question for Nash,
Don't ash.

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