Happy Friday!

Could you do #Agile on a desert island?

Give yourself a few minutes' reflection — and/or give your team a conversation-starter — with the second episode of Agile in 3 Minutes.

"Retrospect": https://agilein3minut.es/2

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@kf so close, maybe (probably not). I'm sorry.

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Today’s #Twitch stream with @jitterted and (undetectably, because I messed up the audio) @recursivefaults, in which we nearly register an #ikiwiki instance as an #OAuth app with #GitHub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zar8DkMUWzk&list=PLkuryjnRFclRpPiXrM4oNSY1_RJHMRcYs&index=1&t=391s&pp=gAQBiAQB

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@jschauma w00t!

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A few years ago I took a Personal Kanban training class from @sprezzatura and @ourfounder. Dave Prior was there too. So of course, being who we are, we had to talk on his podcast about what we learned.

https://www.projectmanagement.com/blog-post/52816/insights-from-two-days-of-personal-kanban-training-w--amitai-schleier#_=_

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@smack it’s frustrating to have to spend brain cells on this guy (for instance) trying to make it make sense, only to discover that he’s been making no such effort. Brandolini’s Law 😕

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^^^^ Missed it (and therefore missed George, Mark, Michele, and Alan)?

No problem. Same time next week. See you then.

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Free. But is it worth your time?

“Amitai has the gift of bridging technical skills with insights into people collaboration and systemic issues.”
— Thorsten Brunzendorf

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111092430785164988

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Whatcha doin for lunch today?

I’m holding an open office half-hour. Let’s chat about @AgileIn3Minutes or anything else #Agile, music, organizational challenges, programming, career advice, you name it.

12:15-12:45 US/Eastern. Drop on by! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89405675221?pwd=WHRueXFFbzZoaUsyTkxFV3hrOWpvQT09

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Air conditioner off, windows open. Here’s #Mordasov Jazz Miniatures No. 28, “Mood”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW0nBzArjbQ&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=47

#PianoMiniature #PianoMiniatures #SlavicJazz #WeeklyPiano

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@rhialto TIL!

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Missed today's #Twitch stream? Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclRpPiXrM4oNSY1_RJHMRcYs

On Thursday I'll begin integrating "login with GitHub" into my preferred CMS. Featuring a special guest or two 😁

Subscribe, & join us if you can: https://www.twitch.tv/schmonzie

#OpenSource #pkgsrc #notqmail #ikiwiki

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I have a podcast. It’s called “Agile in 3 Minutes.”

Q1. What do I mean by #Agile?
A1. I’ll tell you.

Q2. Is each episode really no longer than 180 seconds?
A2. Yes, including this one.

First time listening? Congratulations (it’s well loved) and enjoy.

https://agilein3minut.es/1

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@ska This gives me warm fuzzies (and not only from the yak detritus). My worldview requires existence proofs such as these. Because if things can be like this for some people sometimes, then it's possible that things could be more like this for more people more times.

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Same composer (#Mordasov), same set (Jazz Miniatures), totally different flavor. No. 27, “Dance”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3vKMlBoIx0&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=46

#PianoMiniature #PianoMiniatures #SlavicJazz

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@cvennevik The contemporary Hillel who _does_ talk plenty about programming. In the course of crafting the tweet I couldn’t help but think of him, too.

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"Parameterize things that change. Don't parameterize things that don't change. All the rest is commentary."

— Rabbi Hillel, if while standing on one foot he'd been asked about Dependency Injection instead

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If you’re a hiring manager involved in software development, there are two questions to focus on:

Why haven’t we hired Amitai yet?
When is the soonest moment on my calendar I can talk with Amitai?

— Zach Bonaker

https://schmonz.com/2023/08/05/who-needs-an-amitai

#SoftwareEngineering #Leadership

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Missed my #Twitch session today? We

- upgraded one build-farm VM and added another (via serial console!)
- bootstrapped @pkgsrc and a bunch of dev tools
- exercised my pkgvm and pkgbuild tools (https://github.com/schmonz/package-builders)
- got good ideas from viewers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUrcubq00Ew&list=PLkuryjnRFclRpPiXrM4oNSY1_RJHMRcYs&index=1

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Help! Still looking.

I've got success stories from managing products, projects, and people.

I understand the challenges of delivering effective, efficient software products as well as anyone.

My leadership and collaboration skills are publicly attested: https://schmonz.com/2023/08/05/who-needs-an-amitai

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Kids are in school again. It’s possible to imagine getting some things done. So my brain is protecting the status quo by imagining more things than I could possibly get done. Well met, brain!

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For this #WeeklyPiano we return to my childhood instrument (100 years old!) and to #Mordasov’s Jazz Miniatures. Here’s No. 26, which I think translates as “More sure”.

https://youtu.be/log_WbWp-b4

#PianoMiniature #PianoMiniatures #SlavicJazz

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#nofilter besides whichever of the many prisms hanging in the windows is responsible for this

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In case you missed it, this one’s important to me.

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110967947132531544

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@ska nearly at the limits of mine, too. My musical taste thus far is centered in the western art music I was raised with, but considerably narrower. Which is saying something. Always and forever working on it 🙂

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@ska oh, it’s not my first. It’s my first with a finally adult-attention-span brain, and after a bit of music theory, and actually worth finishing. It fermented under these conditions: https://schmonz.com/2007/11/11/advanced-composition

I wasn’t consciously aiming at Debussy or Chopin with it, but I played and loved a lot of Debussy in high school, and it’s probably impossible to write for the piano without taking from Chopin once one has heard any Chopin. I was consciously aiming at Medtner and Rachmaninov. Lately I’m also hearing hints of Brahms in it.

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I prefer street names a bit more specific. Or maybe less specific too. Just not this amount of specific.

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I composed this. Which @classicalmusic influences do you hear in it?

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110967947132531544

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I read about it in the bolour supplement

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@adayley Thank you! I’d done lots of improvising (sounded like me, had wonderful moments, lacked structure or repeatability) and a few tries at composing (never matched my imaginings, dead on the page) and this one, finally, connected the dots. And note heads and bar lines.

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@ClayDowling me too. My main takeaways from the original performance of this piece (https://schmonz.com/2007/12/17/schlair-student-piece-1) were

1. I have enough skill with music (my love was never in question) to go ahead with a music major; no need for a last-minute switch
2. Composing is expensive enough (75 hours for this 3.5 minute piece) that it better be deliberate practice
3. I’ll need an old-school composition teacher (probably one with ear hair) and time to focus on it

In the meantime, the past year+ of piano-playing has expanded my lexicon and also my understanding of what’s physically reasonable to expect from a pianist. It’s not the training I most specifically need, but it’s moving the needle for sure.

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@gdinwiddie it’s from university days (eek) 16 years ago. Many associated thoughts and feelings but the main one is, I’ve got to make time for more studying-composing and doing-composing.

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@dressupgeekout thank you! It’s from 2007 student days. Need time for more studying and more composing.

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@deborahh one recline and zero lies detected

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On this Very Special Episode of #WeeklyPiano, it’s my first composition.

I had many goals with it. Technical:

- Sonata form
- Counterpoint
- Fugato

Personal:

- Tell a story
- Sound like me
- Do no work with the title
- Prove further study worthwhile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSDtnlk3RUM&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=45

#PianoMiniature #PianoMiniatures @classicalmusic

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A small but real adventure.

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@deborahh my face was seen to brighten as it emitted “this is the coolest mug I’ve ever seen, who’s the artist?”

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Day immediately brightened.

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Got some favorite composers from my #DailyPiano / #WeeklyPiano collection? These new playlists are just the thing.

Alkan: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclSnbbL01Ab9ZDdWOcIC5EZO

Bortkiewicz: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclQidvx62Yk21uIsdOAPQdRS

Bowen: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclRIzVypG4xEZhqqHXLN5MES

Grieg: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclTn2oMDy739SAi6VEBnBL43

Medtner: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclTzfuYJmcZXYDjKxUB-uAgy

Mompou: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclT8NjLQgIp9aNPi6lMDamZ-

Mordasov: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclS00GpZuvODcPSqGukHmej-

Schumann: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclS7QbVUdimq4ceWbzDRHwgd

Scriabin: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclQOvPsnhQMI5ceuNfikGh87

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Recorded on a once again distant instrument, this #WeeklyPiano brings us solidly back into the realm of the #PianoMiniature. It’s #Mordasov Jazz Miniature No. 25, “Movement”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ_LiT311dM&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=46

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@borland @franzzieris Q-and-A #8 here hopefully addresses this: https://schmonz.com/software/greencently/faq

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Semi-periodic reminders:

1. You are not morally obligated to wait for your entire test suite to run green AGAIN on commit. If that's you, with #JUnit5 tests, here's help: https://schmonz.com/software/greencently

2. I can be hired full-time, while supplies last: https://schmonz.com/2023/08/05/who-needs-an-amitai/

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What I'm Doing Now: https://schmonz.com/now #NowNowNow

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So nice I'm posting it twice.

Small changes build up to big impact. Take 10 minutes. Feel different afterward.

Brahms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1KOp4iZX0M&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=42

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So nice I'm posting it twice.

Small changes build up to big impact. Take 10 minutes. Feel different afterward.

Brahms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1KOp4iZX0M&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=42

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This is another one that's especially

- important to me
- worth your ear-time

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110882592635669962

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This #WeeklyPiano is the first piece I played for my first baby. In breadth and impact, it’s no #PianoMiniature, but its heft is the sum of mostly tiny harmonic and timbral shifts.

Happy 7th anniversary, my love. Let’s keep making mostly tiny shifts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1KOp4iZX0M&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=44

#PianoMiniatures #Brahms @classicalmusic

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Proper weather for saying goodbye.

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Well-functioning-piano time is up. I did pretty good:

1. Recorded enough music to stick to my #WeeklyPiano posting schedule while being off at the beach
2. Recorded enough music to cover the next three weeks

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