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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • My limited experience with Agile is being forced to share the stage with half-hour soliloquies every morning**, so as long as the dev team doesn’t have to deal with poorly-managed scrums, I’m all for it.

    ** I made a failed attempt at reminding everyone that it’s called a ‘standing meeting’ partly because we’re supposed to stand for its entirety. If the average person is overcome by the urge to sit down, then the _weak_ly-chaired meeting has been going on for way too long.

    Edit: Instead of chair, I meant ‘scrum master’











  • Thanks. The article title “tricks for Lent” points to the non-serious nature of it. Plus, it uses the phrase “According to legend” several times and doesn’t even mention the particular monestaries, nor the specific monks involved. I think it’s just meant to be a humorous jab at legalism.

    Typically, if practices get so bad that they have to be forbidden by an administrative authority, then you would have some written document forbidding the practice. Although that would acknowledge it wasn’t legitimate to begin with, it would at least suggest the histriocity of it.






  • My favourite is:

    Them: We want less red in the pie chart. Fix that remote vulnerability.

    Me: We don’t even have that component enabled. It’s reporting on a DLL file version, not the vulnerability itself.

    Them: Just lower our vulnerability score.

    (Me wondering if I deploying dozens of fully-patched systems would have the same proportional effect)