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Why is it called Agile software development?

The front fell off.

Then we had a sprint planning meeting to decide to change the a into an A. It was T-Shirt sized as an L. Agile took the L.


Published on 2025/05/06

Articles from blogs I follow around the net

Palm Sunday: A Sonnet

image courtesy of Lancia Smith We come now, on Palm Sunday, to the beginning of Holy Week: a strange Palm Sunday, a strange Holy Week, in which we cannot make the outward and visible journeys and gestures, exchanges and gatherings … Continue reading →

via Malcolm Guite March 29, 2026

Movies: El día de la bestia // The Day of the Beast (1995)

Bent on committing as many sins as possible to avert the birth of the beast, a Catholic priest teams up with a Black Metal aficionado and an Italian connoisseur of the occult. Now, he must become an unrelenting sinner. Is there still hope? If Hollywood mad…

via andrei.xyz March 29, 2026

tar: a slop-free alternative to rsync

So apparently rsync is slop now. When I heard, I wanted to drop a quick note on my blog to give an alternative: tar. It doesn’t do everything that rsync does, in particular identifying and skipping up-to-date files, but tar + ssh can definitely accomodate th…

via Drew DeVault's blog March 28, 2026

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