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

"I might choose to feel bashful for having bothered to care in certain working environments; but it's in those environments, ruled by fear and pain, that I've needed to care — and be cared for — the most."

— @schmonz

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111244393505101118

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111246767023266852

If you could only do one #Agile practice: Retrospect.

If you could only listen to one Agile in 3 Minutes: This one.

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111244393505101118

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111245034981629483

@archiloque @Riduidel ah, I see now that I must have misunderstood “guard clause”

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111244413710466244

How can others tell what matters to you?

https://agilein3minut.es/8

This one is very dear to me. None of these are only about work, but especially this one. You and I will change the world.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111244393505101118

@GeePawHill Then a bunch of tickets must have been previously filed on my behalf.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111236080568967034

@GeePawHill in that case, Debatably Intelligent Person Suggested Heretofore Indefensible Tactic

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111235855210446544

@GeePawHill yes and also PEBEOGWSECFPBCL ("Problem Exists Between Ears Of Grownup Who Somehow Expected Convenience From Printer Being Centrally Located")

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111235801061954791

Advisory: local printer denial of service. Service back to normal upon discovery and removal of scale-model automobile.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111235714594241149

Code is a liquid, sort of.

It has a shape determined by its container.

It has viscosity. The more viscous, the slower to change shape.

It costs more energy to boil it down than to pour more in.

(But pouring more in usually makes it more viscous. Non-newtonian fluid?)

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111234716338884367

@GeePawHill @bagder I don't (and don't have a VM with that system around), but I'm probably adjacent to some people familiar with it, but-but it looks like you folks have already figured out what to do with the report. Thanks for curl!

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111230472273303316

[unpleasantly semi-relevant this week]

We're not operating heavy equipment, we're sitting in climate-controlled offices thinking, talking, and typing. What's there to be afraid of?

https://agilein3minut.es/7

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111228247156393740

Last week I rediscovered a messy directory last touched four years ago. I had been spiking something. But what?

Watch me move from confusion, to awareness, to planning. Less than 30 minutes.

https://youtu.be/SWDnrSHeT3s

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111223627137593426

This one’s important to me, for reasons of Medtner and also of circumstance.

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111217301262307554

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111219091734477834

@craigmaloney cool. Welcome back to being on something recent 🙂

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111218095261816135

@craigmaloney Yowza. Going one major at a time, or LTS-by-LTS, or what? Not knowing Ubuntu in much detail I guess I’d probably do as many small upgrades as possible.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111217709347042934

Jerry once invited me to come play the piano at his house. I regret that I wasn’t able to. I didn’t have anything “ready”, and also, perfectionism.

I’ve since changed my habits. Proof: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111217301262307554

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111217685899907809

A #WeeklyPiano #Medtner trifecta: here’s Op. 39 “Forgotten Melodies” No. 4, Canzona matinata (“Morning song”). When performed it’s intended to lead directly into Sonata tragica, which shares thematic material.

In art as in life. May we make it otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTc5eIkWzgo&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=50

@classicalmusic

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111217301262307554

You may know Jerry Weinberg from “The Psychology of Computer Programming” or “Secrets of Consulting.” But let’s briefly pretend that his magnum opus was this convo with Ryan Ripley and me on the writing process, errors, perfectionism, and self-awareness.

https://ryanripley.com/agile-impressions-and-errors-with-jerry-weinberg/

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111216667704013507

@joeyh@hachyderm.io I have ikiwiki doing OAuth2 to GitHub, but not at all well integrated. I got confused trying to add it to the login selector. Might you have inclination and time to pair program on it a bit next week? "No" is a complete and valid answer (even if I didn't know you're busy with other projects 😉.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111212640906135166

Starting an hour from now, my door's open for 30 minutes. Drop in whenever you can.

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111211097313024924

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111211384925598631

After a conversation with me, Rich got an itch. Had to go try something.

(What if he rearranged his TDD cycle to visit unhappy paths first? Watch him play: https://youtu.be/yT_23a1z0iY?si=coT2ec5BThvQoOK8&t=1281)

Your turn? My office door's open today, 12:15pm US/Eastern, right here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89405675221?pwd=WHRueXFFbzZoaUsyTkxFV3hrOWpvQT09

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111211097313024924

"The eternal challenge of risk management: how can we pay attention to everything we'll wish we had, without paying too much attention to things we'll wish we hadn't?"

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111205035763713606

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111207849622917351

Baba [face to face with F]: How are you, F?

F: I’m here, Baba.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111207488743815451

"People who can't or won't accept any risk are either reasoning from false premises or thinking wishfully. In either case, their decisions will compound risk. They probably wouldn't accept that either."
—@schmonz

#RiskManagement #EngineeringLeadership

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111205035763713606

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111206894061697964

Today's stream wasn't fun to do. Can't imagine it being fun to watch. But by the end, all the warnings in our soon-to-be dependency were fixed. https://youtu.be/z2Vz19U13Gk?si=ECnZX0ObpEY8OaCo

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111206501244599159

How much risk is the right amount?

https://agilein3minut.es/6

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111205035763713606

For all children in the set of my children, there exists some threshold acceleration a, at or above which swinging is necessarily accompanied by freely improvised singing, below which the singing necessarily ceases.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111185275340078356

On today’s stream, I finished extracting notqmail.org from a GitHub wiki to a self-hosted #ikiwiki site, preserving permalinks and revision history (and live-mirroring to a new GitHub repo). This affords many new possibilities.

https://youtu.be/qX1jPUzFU-Q?si=5U1dqWX-7CtHbc3D

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111184662668855103

@federicomena 💜

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111183259350943883

Free learning material from one of the absolute best in our field. Do not miss.

https://sw-development-is.social/@emilybache/111176572807433174

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111183248383191830

For folks who have written code:

Q1. What was happening for (and around) you when you first realized that your code is gonna need to communicate with humans?

Q2. What were your first best ideas for how to make it do that (or how to learn to make it do that)?

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111183097278134823

What's unique about my #TechnicalLeadership? (Llewellyn Falco saw it.)

What's a #CodingTour, and what did it teach me about making the world safe for programmers (à la @kentbeck )?

How well did solo #OpenSource prepare me to return from parental leave?

https://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-436-amitai-schleier-safe-for-programmers-and-non-programmers

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111177586968925139

@kellogh @narthur the spirit in which I took the OP is that processes often need tuning to their environment and here’s a rule of thumb for detecting whether your usual process might be too heavy. Not that it for sure is, but that that’s a good time to ask the question. Made me think of big companies living un-Agile lives until there’s an emergency and they suddenly hold WIP at 1 and do some approximation of ensemble programming, temporarily, only to go back to the old way as soon as they can.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111173796352781988

Piano is losing some more notes, but:

- I miss way more than it does
- The music will find you anyway

As is always the case with Medtner, this one is important to me. Let it sing to you as best it can.

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111172310353422266

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111173031572121608

@hwesta yes, thank you, and also I’m very much on board with “small”, which I find extremely undervalued and/or underapplied in our trade. “Many More Much Smaller Steps”, as @GeePawHill says.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111172679883052608

Two #WeeklyPiano in a row, #Medtner! From the Op. 38 “Forgotten Melodies”, this beautiful song — on this decaying centenarian piano — shares thematic material with the relatively famous Sonata-Reminiscenza (Op. 38 No. 1).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPa-zFg8Q74&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=49

#PianoMiniature #PianoMiniatures @classicalpiano

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111172310353422266

Office hours starting now: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111171495731280111

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111171973730073975

@itsjoshbruce Totally what i'm going for, and I dig it. Measuring friction.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111171521926127507

@krys previous answer was totally legit. requiring additional coffee also totally legit (or else I'm in trouble)

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111171514113066287

"An absolute wizard at helping software delivery folks get the most out of themselves and their organizations. One of the few engineering leaders who’s expert at true collaboration across the business-engineering chasm."
— Jim Holmes

What's on your mind? Drop by today's office hours and ask.

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111131958589273543

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111171495731280111

Every programmer has some level of understanding of the current state of their code.

What are your favorite ways to get some level of understanding on the current state of your understanding?

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111167087432662834

@ska Heh. You wouldn't want to find out a little sooner maybe?

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111166913771782454

"The epistemic condition of being human, of finding our way given extremely limited knowledge, is not ameliorated when we develop software. It is magnified."
— @schmonz

#SoftwareDevelopment #EngineeringLeadership #SystemsThinking #CognitiveLoad

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111165750607585068

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111166492843991075

Start your week off right with "Wrong", the fifth and possibly most important (I love all my children equally) episode of Agile in 3 Minutes.

What’s the nicest way to find out you’re wrong?

https://agilein3minut.es/5

(P.S. Live-coding in 10 minutes at https://www.twitch.tv/schmonzie)

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111165750607585068

What makes this a productivity hack?

- Devs make 1000s of decisions per day
- Emotions are first-order decision inputs
- Emotions derive from information and can lead us to new information
- Programming faster happens when we remove friction, get stuck less often for less time

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111162007959878626

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111163118967826223

#SoftwareDeveloper productivity hack:

Before setting some code back down, first arrange it in the best order you can quickly feel.

When picking some code back up, first arrange it in the best order you can quickly feel.

Growth hacks for the aforementioned productivity hack:

Practice the “feel” part.

Practice the “arrange” part.

Practice the “quickly” part.

Meta-growth hack for the aforementioned growth hacks:

Practice practicing with other people.

Communication hack for the previous hacks:

With other devotees of these hacks, you can just call them #Refactoring, #DeliberatePractice, and #EnsembleProgramming (a.k.a. #MobProgramming).

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111162007959878626

Another quick, unscheduled programming video: "exim RCE, is my SMTP AUTH code safe?"

I don't run exim, but when the universe suggests that it's a good time to inspect my own code, I try to accept.

https://youtu.be/khdk9pu1IBo

#SMTP #Refactoring #SecureProgramming #C #dev #qmail

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111161253356777338

From the Schmarchives: “When is #Refactoring a good decision?” https://schmonz.com/2014/08/07/when-is-refactoring-a-good-decision

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111160672062044423

What's it like to write a Unix shell script? Here's a tiny impromptu example: https://youtu.be/x3BS0yL10hA?si=ZoCQyN7P8oK-szjm

Note the higher-than-usual marginal value of the #refactoring steps. Shell scripting has an especially low comprehensibility floor, so a tiny bit of structure goes a long way.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111149965125446463

"If we want to make effective business decisions, we need to start by accepting three premises:

1. Our intuition exerts tremendous influence over our decision-making,
2. It can lead us astray, and
3. It can be developed."

— @schmonz

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111148793690174809

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111149263320347891