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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

Despised and Rejected Christina Rosetti

The poem I have chosen for December 11th in my Advent Anthology from Canterbury Press Waiting on the Word, is Despised and Rejected, a dramatic and challenging reflection on encounter with Christ by Christina Rosetti. You can hear me read this poem by cli…

via Malcolm Guite December 11, 2025

MSN Messenger on OS X in 2025

Breaking the holiday silence for a short article on how to use your old MSN Messenger client to connect to escargot.chat’s infrastructure, using OS X (Leopard, maybe even Tiger), regardless of current year: basically you need an escargot.chat account, a c…

via sizeof(cat) December 11, 2025

THE REPUBLIC #54

TWO MASTERS Hard to explain / feels like everybody's gone insane —Coriky, Hard to Explain The Mo'rio'ne contribution to economic realpolitik is sometimes overlooked. Their complete domination of the Sh'ack'uarian homeworld lasted for onl…

via I'm not really Stanley Lieber. December 10, 2025

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