Third attempt to get sediments from the "Unterer Eissee" beneath the Hallstätter Glacier, Austria. We carried our equipment three hours up, partially steep slopes and deep snow. In 1.5h, we dug a 1.6 m pit into the snow on the lake and moved c. 2.5 (metric) tonnes of snow with three avalanche rescue shovels, just to find out that what used to be the deepest part of the lake was dry. We still took 2 sediment cores, one of which was ruined by an adjacent stone. In 10h of field work, we further ruined one sediment corer, one snowshoe and a glove.

This is not what successful #fieldwork looks like...

#xp

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A pit in the snow on a lake surrounded by Mountains. In the pit are two scietists in black clothes, bowing to drive the corer into the sediment. Hazy blue sky.

My wife wished for the Northern Lights for her birthday – and got them.

#Aurora #Aurorabnorealis #northernlight #xp

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Turquoise, triangular aurora illuminating cumulus clouds

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Curtain shaped turquoise Aurora above and three people in front of a forest edge

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Turquois, illuminescent drapes of aurora

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Curtain and rays of turquoise aurora

On 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 27, I’ll be presenting "𝐞𝐗𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 – 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐖𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐭” at 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟 2026. This talk is a deep dive into the origins and core practices of XP, and why these ideas are still very relevant today. Let’s reconnect with the principles that shaped modern technical practices.

🔗 More info & registration: https://devconf.nl/

Looking forward to seeing you there!
#XP #ExtremeProgramming #Agile

1. Become Director of Engineering

2. Tell org and stakeholders that XP will fix longstanding problems

3. Regularly interfere with devs’ learning

4. Design projects to delay ROI

5. Find scapegoats

Maybe they’ll blame #XP.

If you do this while claiming to be an #XP expert, that’s clownshoes.

#XP #XPLives #ExtremeProgramming