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

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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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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@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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@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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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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Time for some silent hotel-room streaming. We'll start with updating the #pkgsrc package of #Python #ApprovalTests, then we'll find other things to do for however long naptime lasts.

https://www.twitch.tv/schmonzie

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Visiting family for the weekend. Prerecorded for your enjoyment (?), this week’s #Mordasov Jazz Miniature is No. 20, “By the river”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlTkx7yg1Ks&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=36

#WeeklyPiano #PianoMiniatures #PianoMiniature #SlavicJazz

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@nat ah, yeah, the marginal cost of hosting one more thing was a big factor for me. If it was high, dunno what I’d have done. Getting into aggregators isn’t a big differentiator, I found that quite easy to do myself, but def nice that they’ll handle it.

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@butchhoward Hoo boy, ChatGPT sure is… itself. Of your own ideas, I prefer the sillier ones to the more earnest. Looking back, I think I do about half boring names and half slightly silly.

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@nat I did a fairly nontraditional podcast (https://agilein3minut.es) that I’ve always been glad to have self-hosted (https://schmonz.com/2015/09/23/my-podcasting-workflow/). So if it’s useful to consider the question, what are you hoping Transistor will do to serve your goals for the podcast?

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@ska I might have known to interpret you more generously. Guess I’m too touchy on the topic. “zoo” is really speaking to me, BTW.

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@butchhoward my brain is all too willing to associate attempted-relevant meanings with those. But I’d rather hear some (if you have any handy) of the actual associations that led you to the names.

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@ska hopefully not hundreds of times per day — for my own use case, at least, at present — but yes, subcommands, and fairly frequently, and your point about that is well taken. Your point about obsolete (or soon-to-be) tech merely further inflames my love for weird old shit. I came up on NetBSD/mac68k, I’ll have you know, and boy howdy is that a VM on my wishlist.

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@Brodyberg not this time, to the exten of my knowledge, but I love what my reputation hath wrought

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@sevan@noc.social now I’m trying to backronymize “acvc” 🙂

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@Brodyberg now that’s some hard sci-fi

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@GeePawHill also, wanna hear more (maybe elsewhere?) about what’s made you so crabby about this. Other crabbiness I’ll take as given.

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@GeePawHill oh. Well I gotta be able to script the living shit out of this. I don’t like how much I had to learn about the CLI I’m fronting to be able to make mine, but I like mine for my purposes waaaaay better.

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@GeePawHill wait, I don’t get it. Why “grown-up” in that case — Grown-Up Interface?

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If there were a CLI program for controlling virtual machines of a variety of operating systems and hardware architectures (text mode only)…

What might you think to call it?

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Today may perhaps be today, but yesterday it was, in fact, yesterday.

Today in #WeeklyPiano, here’s “It was yesterday”, #Mordasov Jazz Miniature No. 19.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnR1V1NHfCU&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=35

#PianoMiniature #PianoMiniatures #TimeTravelViaTimeWasting

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Proceeding through the #Mordasov Jazz Miniatures, here’s a cool “Breeze” (No. 18):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGS1oSBAFpU&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=34

#WeeklyPiano #PianoMiniature #PianoMiniatures

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

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@GeePawHill taking in all the warm. Thanks, G.

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Help, I’ve fallen into the #Mordasov Jazz Miniatures and I can’t get up!

Well, actually, after a few blyues this one’s pretty up. No. 17, ”See you tomorrow”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww59fjELoYQ&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=33

#WeeklyPiano #PianoMiniature #PianoMiniatures

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@deborahh truish! For musicians trained in the "Western art music" tradition, this notation is a lingua franca; for others, it's foreign. And advanced Western-art-music education invariably includes one or more of Italian, German, French, Russian, some others. Even though I didn't get music education that advanced, I could tell you what every one of those Italian words means, and I think that's true of most musicians with handwave roughly my level of experience.

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