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My 2018 Mac mini (64G RAM, 2T SSD) has long been a trusty multi-VM pkgsrc and notqmail build machine, mostly via SSH.

One of the few things I know about Minecraft is, some players I know and love could be playing together if someone were to run a server for them.

We have a 2017 13” MacBook Air that’s periodically of interest to the kids, but Apple doesn’t offer macOS updates for it beyond Monterey (12.x).

On my home network, some important jobs are performed by little ARM computers.

On Friday, May 10, I presented “Not So Extreme Programming” for Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) in NYC & Global.

My early imaginings of a collaborative Open Source successor to qmail, let me assure you, did not include going nearly four years between releases.

This might turn into a collection.

To everyone who helped me with the search, thank you.

A few weeks ago, Apple released new versions of Xcode and Command Line Tools.

It’s been a few weeks since my last Weekly Piano Miniature and I don’t feel bad about it.

Update: Found a fit!

Since May, I’ve been posting a new video just about every day.

Our third child arrived yesterday, on April 26, at 7 pounds.

For the December meetup of Jersey City Java, Bob Allen presented Coaching Teams to Do the Impossible… as they see it, and, without straining their backs.

[ About my public-facing work ] Starting now, I’m moving my monthly posts from Patreon to my own website here.

Welcome back to Southern Connecticut Agile!

For the November meetup of the Jersey City JUG, Pejman Ghorbanzade presented Continuous Regression Testing Using Touca SDK for Java.

I noticed last week that the Southern Connecticut Agile Meetup had gone maintainerless and decided to take it on.

For the September meetup of the Jersey City JUG, Mike Coon presented You get what you ask for — so you better ask for what you want.

On Friday, August 20, Faye Thompson and I once again co-facilitated Two Midwesterners Politely Invite You To Explore Coding, this time as a 3-hour workshop at Code PaLOUsa 2021.

For the August meetup of the Jersey City JUG, Nayan Hajratwala presented Power Up Your Gradle.

In June, the Jersey City JUG had two meetups: Julie Lerman on Tackling System Complexity with Domain-Driven Design (sorry, no video) Helen Scott on Writing Code is Easy, Being a Great Developer Is Hard (video)

On Thursday, June 17, for the 6th edition of “Legacy of SoCraTes”, I gave a public talk with this abstract: In inside-out TDD, we incrementally redesign objects, their interactions, and the system as a whole, starting in the small and moving toward the la…

For the May meetup of the Jersey City JUG, Ryan Latta presented Learning Under Pressure: Scala in a Hurry.

For the April meetup of the Jersey City JUG, Cat Swetel and Heidi Mitre presented Continuous Verification: Beyond Chaos Engineering.

On Friday, March 19, at the invitation of AO.com, I gave a public talk about joy and humanity in software development.

For the March meetup of the Jersey City JUG, Angie Jones presented Modern Java: Beyond Version 8.

For the February meetup of the Jersey City JUG, Dave Nicolette presented Java on the Mainframe.

On February 8, I facilitated Strangle Your Legacy Code at OOP Konferenz.

Our first Jersey City JUG session for 2021 followed the evolutionary design conversation from last month, as Emily Bache introduced a safety-enhancing technique for evolving the design of legacy code.

A year ago, or whenever the heck it was, I was helping organize the 2020 edition of deliver:Agile, the Agile Alliance conference focused on practitioners and techniques.

This month’s meetup of the Jersey City Java User Group continued the refactoring conversation from last month, as J.

Last month’s meetup of the Jersey City Java User Group got us off to a rollicking restart.

On Friday, November 13, Faye Thompson and I once again co-facilitated Two Midwesterners Politely Invite You To Explore Coding at Agile Arizona (rebranded “Agile Arisofa” for our remote-only era).

Remember when meetups still happened in locations?

After 4.5 months of parental leave, I once again have time, space, and attention for my consulting work.

I’m pleased to announce notqmail 1.08, the latest update to notqmail.

Our second child arrived a week ago, on April 27, at 3540 grams (7 pounds, 13 ounces).

On Friday, February 21, I presented “Strangle Your Legacy Code” at Mini-SPA, a one-day event in Leeds, UK.

On Wednesday, January 8, I attended the New York City BSD User Group to present What is notqmail?

A reader asks for advice as his team gets started with pair programming.

On Saturday, November 16, I was going to have once again co-facilitated the New York City instance of Global Day of Coderetreat.

Schmonzcast #21: To celebrate my parents’ 50th anniversary, and to honor their having shipped me the baby grand I grew up playing, I chose this Medtner piece.

Running my own email server has its challenges.

On Thursday, May 16, NYC Large Scale Scrum hosted a meetup with LeSS co-creator Craig Larman.

On Friday, May 10, I attended Big Apple Scrum Day, was part of its Coaches Clinic, and co-facilitated a session called Two Midwesterners Politely Invite You To Explore Coding with Faye Thompson.

I attended deliver:Agile in Nashville and co-facilitated a session called Strangle Your Legacy Code with Markus Silpala.

On Thursday, April 11, I presented a webinar with SmartBear called Mob Programming Explained.

Habits can change I have a habit I like very much: incorporating some professional training every year.

On Wednesday, March 6, I attended New York City BSD User Group and presented Maintaining qmail in 2019.