Just a few more days until the amazing Socrates conference :) I’ll hopefully see some of you there. #XP #Agile
https://discuss.systems/@SoCraTes_UK/114547185433866712

Confirmed that Al Gore had this photo on his office wall in the White House during the Clinton administration:

“When I moved into my office in the West Wing of the White House in January of 1993, I asked NASA for a very large version of that [Apollo 17 Blue Marble] picture to put on my wall... It stayed there for eight years.”

https://algore.com/news/al-gore-dreamed-up-a-satellite-and-it-just-took-its-first-picture-of-earth

#BlueMarble #xp

I found another photo in front of the Blue Marble, I am assuming this is at the White House but not definite.

From the National Archives: https://clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov/WH/kids/html/al.html

#BlueMarble #xp

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Al Gore with a group of children standing in front of a large photo of the Earth.

Was this photo of the Grateful Dead with Al Gore taken in the West Wing? Did the Clinton White House have a huge print of the Apollo 17 Blue Marble photo on the wall?

cc @rsimmon.bsky.social‬

#BlueMarble #xp

https://heads.social/@bourgwick/114552416447319048

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Left to right: Dennis McNally, Mountain Girl, Jerry Garcia, Mickey & Caryl Hart, Al Gore, Phil & Jill Lesh, Cassidy Law standing in front of a large image of the Earth from Space and another smaller framed picture on the wall.

Tonight I will be talking about "eXtreme Programming - The Knowledge We Lost" at Coven Of Wisdom Herentals. I'm going to discuss the origins and core practices of eXtreme Programming. The meetup will be hosted at the iO offices in Herentals. For more information, check out the website:

https://www.meetup.com/coven-of-wisdom-herentals/events/307081741/

Hope to see you there!
#xp #agile

"Pragmatism transforms respect from an abstract value into a practical tool for conflict resolution and team collaboration."

#softwareengineering #developerexperience #xp

https://emmanuelvalverderamos.substack.com/p/the-missing-value-in-xp-pragmatism

(context: coding-trained LLM interaction, after I asked how short I can make a timeout for a tokio async test scenario):

LLM: 10ms is usually reliable unless running under heavy CI load.

Me: I'm an OG XP Programmer, "heavy CI load" is a misnomer! :-) continuous integration is a practice, not a tool.

LLM: True. CI is a discipline, not a server farm. Real XP: integrate always, test constantly, trust small, fast, deterministic tests.
Respect.

... Finally! someone respects my programming beliefs! 😂 😂 #programming #xp #ci #llm #tokio #rust