By way of partial compensation for its officiousness, Germany occasionally offers such remuneration as this.

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@deborahh (-away-from-home-home, with reminders of how this temporarily became home)

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Preferred mug: big, cool shape, good memories. #CodingTour

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My 2018 #CodingTour took me to @alex_schl (and Zeb at the time) company. I had a solo flight booked for March 2020 to consult there. Instead, on the same exact flight, my whole family moved to Germany, during which years I never managed to see Zeb or Alex.

Fixed today:

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@gdinwiddie I know innit? Fun and tiny and so much for me to learn from them. I’ll be sad when I run out (there are 30) but eager to revisit them.

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It’s time to head back, but we always wish we could stay at the beach just a little longer: we’re restored, trying new things, in a new rhythm. An apposite #WeeklyPiano, then: #Mordasov Jazz Miniature No. 24, “Blyues”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C90tiipM82g&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=42

#PianoMiniatures #PianoMiniature

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@claresudbery thank you Clare for sharing this along!

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@mkilby ha! Haven't heard of them doing any layoffs but no hiring that I'm aware of either.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110842718600591796

@jitterted Thank you, Ted, for this and the similar ones elsewhere.

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@mkilby Either it didn't happen, or I wasn't invited, or I failed to understand the invitation. Still here on Earth in the usual timeline, as far as I can tell 😃

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@GeePawHill @deborahh @mariapopova Oh, wow. Yes, now that I've met the thought, I recognize it: being held firmly in time and corporeality is a big part of why I hold to music-making. And maybe my wish to compose music with a chance of living longer than I do is further proof that time and corporeality are indeed the whole of it.

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As a blog post (with a bonus bunch of fresh testimonials):

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

Please share to help the right company find and take advantage of my #EngineeringLeadership.

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@deborahh thank you kindly!

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@ska nope, the poetry remains a (probably badly kept) secret until such time as I feel an urge to abuse my power. Muahahaha

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@gdinwiddie thank you, George. It means a lot to me and if anyone else knows what’s good for ‘em it’ll mean a lot to them too.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110814901339226217

Hi folks! I’m looking for my next full-time role in engineering leadership (such as Director, VP, CTO) and/or senior engineering (such as Principal or Staff).

I love people, want them to succeed, and have fairly reliably made myself helpful.

You may already know me from Agile in 3 Minutes, my Coding Tour, my PubMob, meetups I've run, talks I've given, or approximately a zillion podcasts I've guested on. I'm happy to say my track record of being an effective influencer extends beyond social media.

Some of my core competencies:

- Coaching (technical and otherwise, all levels of the org)
- Managing (risks, products, and people)
- Contributing (tests, code, relentless improvements to developer UX, you name it)
- Inviting and supporting meaningful conversations
- Making and supporting effective decisions
- Orienting myself — and helping others orient themselves — in new problem spaces
- Seeking out and attending to unmet needs
- Rooting practical daily choices in values and principles, and vice versa
- Making workplaces more humane
- Supporting people as the whole human beings they are
- Giving, always and constructively, a shit

People saying nice things about my…

- Engineering leadership: https://latentagility.com/bio
- Consulting and coaching: https://latentagility.com/testimonials
- Agile in 3 Minutes micropodcast: https://agilein3minut.es/comments

If you (or someone you know) need your organization influenced from within by an Amitai, please get in touch:

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/schmonz
- https://latentagility.com/link/free-call

[and please share this freely]

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Forecast: 40% chance of interdimensional portal.

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This #WeeklyPiano is brought to you by timeshifting. In advance of trading piano access for beach access, I prepared a couple more #Mordasov Jazz Miniatures for us. Here’s No. 23, “Listen to the Rhythm”:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=s8gB_4xmR0o&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=40

#PianoMiniature #PianoMiniatures #SlavicJazz

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I grew more from that one sentence than from anything else we could possibly have worked on.

It meant so much to me, naturally, but of course I was neither the first nor the last person whom Niels Østbye influenced in precisely this kind of way. https://music.columbia.edu/node/8924

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@deborahh looks like something I'd need years to learn how to do. as you predicted. 🙂

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16 years ago, I got invited to perform. I felt very wobbly about accepting.

I had a teacher at the time, so I played the side-project piece for him.

He said “You love this music, and the way you play it, you give other people the chance to love it too.”

What a gift he gave me.

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@deborahh I have no special talent and in particular very little technical training or awareness, and at least to me my limitations are loud and clear in most music I make. On the flip side, I have what my teacher told me when I last had a teacher oh, 16 years ago. He said, talking about a larger Medtner work I spent two years on, “You love this music, and the way you play it, you give other people a chance to love it too.” What a gift that was.

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I know, I’ve been sharing a lot of piano music at you.

Some pieces are more important than others, though if you’re not me (and who is?) it’s hard to tell which.

This here ^^^^^ is one of the important ones.

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Needing to be feeling a little more this. Will give it another go tomorrow.

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@deborahh 💖

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For this #WeeklyPiano I’m within reach of an instrument in good working order, and with a bit more free time. The payoff: we get some #Medtner! The second of the Op. 51 Skazki is a magical place to be. Get in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXEVo9VKpaw&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=42

#PianoMiniatures #PianoMiniature #Skazka @classicalmusic

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110769218415326410

Ran into trouble updating the #ApprovalTests package in #pkgsrc.

Gonna have to work through the trouble, though. Why?

I'll tell you in this brief, mild, and extemporaneous rant on #ExtremeProgramming-inspired risk management of software dependencies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lwunlK1Ri8&list=PLkuryjnRFclRpPiXrM4oNSY1_RJHMRcYs&index=1

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Still navigating the timezone shift, everyone running on fumes. The next #Mordasov Jazz Miniature is “Dream”, and (like ours lately) it’s been cut short.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoqmV6nY_G8&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=38

#WeeklyPiano #PianoMiniatures #PianoMiniature #SlavicJazz

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@nikita I mean, with the possible exception of mail/qmail and surroundings, the things I maintain are generally dumb simple. I’m amazed at (and grateful for) some of what yinz manage to keep packaged.

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@nikita 😬 I doubt I have the chops (or patience) to even work on such a thing.

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Usually I do one #WeeklyPiano per week. But now, while it’s briefly the case that a well-functioning piano is at hand, I’m scheming to record as much as I can.

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@nikita sure would be nice if the value of this kind of work were more broadly recognized.

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@alexboly we recorded this just as I was getting back to my first full-time job in years. It so happens today’s my last day on that gig. Coincidence?!?!

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@deborahh !!!! one for the memory files.

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@deborahh @mlevison likewise!

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110708466193134786

@mlevison @deborahh that’s exactly what happened. I was just stepping into the space you described!

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@mlevison @deborahh I'm only familiar with the original referring to org structure being reified in program structure. If there's a more general formulation out there then yes, I bet it covers what we're saying here.

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@deborahh I love that analogy. The way software dependencies are handled by the team will inevitably reflect the structure of relationships in and around the team.

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@deborahh yes, connected for sure. Dependencies aren’t usually the first place to strengthen courage and trust, but they’re an excellent test of courage-and-trust-strengthening system.

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@deborahh Very. Devs usually don't update dependencies until they need a particular new feature or bugfix, probably because dependencies are always threatening to break your code and it's scary to change anything about them. (That's my favorite working definition in this context, BTW: "dependency" = anything that's not your code that can break your code.)

So the XP-inspired courage challenge here is stop averting our gaze from that fear and start applying our forebrains and our programming skills to address each factor that contributes to our fear. When we've done that, then we can instead feel eager to update dependencies the moment we see them, knowing that we'll find out quickly and safely if they introduce a problem, instead of slowly and dangerously.

If I have a book in me, it's about managing software dependencies. 🙂

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@shuruchan@ieji.de oooh, hadn't seen this. Thanks for the pointer!

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@mscottford @ecoSteve @ecoAPM yep, this is the stuff! XP's spirit, on the nose: techniques for continuously managing risk.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNW_3fNK4oA&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=37

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@benfulton foshizzle. That’d go under (3), or maybe (0).

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If #ExtremeProgramming (a set of risk-management techniques) were being formulated today, it’d have to say something about software dependencies.

Here’s what I think it’d say:

1. Be notified of available updates
2. Update eagerly and deploy
3. Automate for safety and ease

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110675214704303153

@Brodyberg we got a 1, a 3, and a 6. 6 persuasively feigns interest that this is the only time all of their ages will be triangular numbers.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/110657963525632083

With second and third baby.

Photo credit: first baby.

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Several major version updates, plus converting from GNU configure to Meson and Ninja, means this is gonna require more patience and time.

Instead, let's see what's next on my backlog for https://github.com/schmonz/package-builders

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Done. Gonna see what's involved in updating libvirt.

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