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

Impossible to overstate how much playing through this (sometimes accompanied by 1-year-old) just did for my soul. I’ve loved #Medtner for decades and this music remains astonishingly ravishing and ravishingly astonishing.

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Happy birthday to my spaceman. We’re on a voyage together, that’s for sure. I hope you get to go everywhere.

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“Only for you (blues)”, No. 16 of the #Mordasov Jazz Miniatures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RswiYR_PIU0&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=32

#WeeklyPiano #PianoMiniatures #PianoMiniature

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@mwl @ellenor2000 ❤️‍🔥

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Higher throughput comes from not tolerating obstacles to throughput.

What would have to be true for wanting to confidently deliver value to constitute an obstacle to higher throughput?

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When kids are ill, the world shrinks. As always, #Mordasov is ready with something small enough to make room for.

Jazz Miniatures No. 15, “The way home”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo35uQDVCHM&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=31

#PianoMiniature #PianoMiniatures #WeeklyPiano

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Was there any way we could defer the new work? Nope. Murray had a deadline too — same as ours.

Because we had a creative way to parallelize taking advantage of outside expertise, all of us met our commitments.

What way? #TDD.

From the Schmarchives: https://schmonz.com/2015/05/27/tdd-in-context-7-win-win/ #XP

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In #SoftwareDevelopment, we occasionally meet a problem that we believe can be cost-effectively solved by working extra hours.

How often are we right — closer to always or to never? What timescale maximizes our chances? And what costs should we account?

https://agilein3minut.es/14

#ProjectManagement #ExtremeProgramming #Agile #Scrum #SustainablePace #AdaptivePlanning #CognitiveLoad #TheoryOfConstraints

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For 7 months, every week I'm playing a short #piano piece as well as I can quickly learn it. #WeeklyPiano thus far: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am

For 5 months before that (anniversary's today), it was every day. Full #DailyPiano playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclQJqoIVpk9W9-eIRswejo-R

#PianoMiniatures

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@GeePawHill big if true. Certainly not getting lighter on any of the other axes

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Another challenging week in the rear view, another blyues just (in part) what the doctor ordered. For a second go-round, traded up an octave to get sounds out of all the notes.

#Mordasov Jazz Miniatures No. 14, “Morning”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTbO02ZEIWA&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=30

#weeklypiano #pianominiatures

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Me: can I have a kiss?
F: can I have your eyes?
Me: really?
F: no
Me: what would you do with them?
F: put them in here (gestures to a large cup)

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@donaldegray @jessitron and for less, there’s https://agilein3minut.es/38

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@devl Looks pretty great.

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@CoralineAda weeeeeird

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1. Reversed the signs of software aging

2. Fundamentally changed our relationship with Operations

3. Identified a new paradigm for short-term collaboration

Thus concludes the final story in this sequence about the value of #TDD to human beings: https://schmonz.com/tag/tdd-in-context #XPLives

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@GeePawHill for sure! gonna be coming back to these for a while.

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More #Mordasov blyues. 30 Jazz Miniatures, number 13 "Little Blues": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkSDvdC40Kc&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=29 #weeklypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures

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@sashag @Julia_Schmeer@chaos.social @aredridel not sure I was supposed to be invited to this thread but as of this toot I’m all in 🤓

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A small update to acceptutils, my runtime-composable TLS and AUTH implementation for notqmail, netqmail, or any other qmail:

It now builds on systems without the BSD queue macros, such as Void Linux with musl libc.

https://schmonz.com/software/acceptutils/

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Got the blyues, them #Mordasov blyues. The 12th of his 30 Jazz Miniatures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTFGkz7S_G8&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=28 #weeklypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures

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Trying to bring Greencently to Jest. Please upvote my question on Stack Overflow, if you can and would like to, and/or just tell me the answer if you know it. 🤓

https://stackoverflow.com/q/76204532/7211212 #jestjs

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You know me, I can’t pass up a portmantopportunity. So I’ve renamed When All Tests Were Green to Greencently.

(From unwieldy to eye-rolling, perhaps amusingly so.)

Here’s a FAQ about the thing itself, not the rename: https://schmonz.com/software/greencently/faq

#junit #tdd #git #jvm #kotlin #java

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@gdinwiddie it's usually hard for me to remember, too. I've had times when I've been less open (and this might be one of them (hmmm, maybe that's why I thought of this)).

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@GeePawHill sending warm.

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Coaches: if you're not truly open to being changed by what and whom you encounter, you can be sure folks will reciprocate.

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Who doesn't enjoy finely wrought @classicalmusic played on a bent-out-of-shape piano in a fractional-assed rendition?

Nobody does or perhaps doesn't, that's who.

#Medtner Sonata-Skazka, Op. 25 No. 1:

I. https://youtu.be/HijPpVLOmaI
II. https://youtu.be/Dqf9ohCGvyk
III. https://youtu.be/AKm6b9g6sXs

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Later today: family get-together for kids’ birthdays.

Recorded three days ago, finally: the third and final movement of #Medtner Op. 25 No. 1 “Sonata-Skazka”. Propulsive. With a bunch more practice I might could keep up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKm6b9g6sXs&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=27

#weeklypiano #pianominiatures

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Hoo boy this was a clue.

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@jmeowmeow dunno what’s going on with that site but it seems barely not abandoned.

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Do you wish #UniversalEditButton had more universal browser support? Here's "Edit This Page", a userscript that does the same kinda thing. Instead of putting an icon in the address bar (userscripts can't do this), it overlays a button on the page. #wiki

https://schmonz.com/software/editthispage

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In between everything, waiting for microwave while kid read to himself, #weeklypiano returns to #Mordasov and his #Jazz Miniatures. Next in line is No. 11, “I will dance”, recorded as expediently as possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LePocNiNCBM&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=26 #pianominiatures #pianominiature

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@Trevoke More than fair, and thank you for reminding me of Hughson's Iron Law of Tools: "That which does _for_ you, also does _to_ you." (https://genehughson.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/the-iron-law-of-tools/)

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@thirstybear lovely innit? I tried and failed to get the guy to give me an example of how this could be terrible. I guess his budget only permits doing that while coding.

I’ll be curious to hear if the extension serves you, almost does, could be of more service, and/or incinerates everything in your vicinity.

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ICYMI: Got a pre-commit hook that runs #JUnit5 tests? Try "When All Tests Were Green". It's trivial to add to your build, requires no change in human behavior, and by the end of Day 1 will have saved you more time than it cost to set up.

https://schmonz.com/software/when-all-tests-were-green/

#tdd #xp #java

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@ellenor@bvq.umbrellix.org @ska yeah in my case it ain’t the chocolate

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@ska I am now! (Step 1 was to see who thinks they’re being subtootled. We’re further ahead than that.)

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@Trevoke yes, I need to find better words for what this tiny dumb thing is doing. I almost _always_ run my tests more than once per commit (of course)! So the catchphrase on the thing is real wobbly. What I'm trying to avoid is the part at the end, where the tests wind up getting run twice in rapid succession (because pre-commit hook typically runs them) even though they were green the first time (because seeing them green is typically when I move to commit).

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@Trevoke learning to not run the tests because maybe I can just wait for the pre-commit hook to run them? or some other scenario you're thinking of? I'm not _trying_ to be dense, just succeeding. I share the worry in principle, is why I'm trying to make sure I've got the details.

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In the moment when you want a change, pause.

Imagine that the change had already occurred long ago, of its own accord. What would have had to be true for that to happen?

Work on making those things true.

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@GeePawHill if we’re stuck likening change-husbandry to something from a high school sport, it’s a _bit_ more like five offensive linepersons trying to drag a sled in the same direction. Still not a great example.

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@GeePawHill I remember being on the high school track team and seeing what looked like sheer insanity: kids my age running full-tilt, hoping to plant that wobbly pole in exactly the right spot, hoping to be able to push it however is right (lord knows I never tried) to go airborne and forward and up over down onto the mat. There are a whole lotta wrong ways to pole vault and it looked like at speed most of them hurt pretty good. It’s all very vivid and ready to be seen in my mind’s eye the moment anything like “run fast and hard and straight at something” gets said 🙂

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@GeePawHill also also, your verbiage here puts me in mind of pole-vaulting. Dunno if that metaphor can take you anywhere but it’s what I’m seeing.

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@GeePawHill was just revisiting some old thoughts and encountered one related to this: what are some reasons my desideratum hasn’t happened by itself already? If yer such an eager beaver, set to work on those. Also a cousin of make the change easy, then make the easy change.

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Chop scope, carry feedback.

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@JayBazuzi hmmm. Is there existing tool support for detecting tests that haven’t been red since some threshold? Because this one rabbit hole has already been too many 🤪

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@christianhujer 💯my favorite retro cadence is Mobodoro. Small, quick, and recent, and (IME) makes it more likely we’ll retrospect more continuously than that.

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@allenholub such a special piece. Here’s my take from when I was recording something new every day: https://youtu.be/Nbvvvjnw164 Have you recorded it, perchance?

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To me, #Mompou always sounds like he knows a secret. It can’t be explained, but it could glance sidewise off your brain until you recognize it in your own memories.

Maybe _that’s_ his secret.

The fifth Prélude: https://youtu.be/2-GW8el772I #weeklypiano #pianominiatures

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@kevinrutherford added to the “neighboring ideas” wiki page. Thanks!

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