Study consisting of 600 UK and US software engineers finds projects adopting Agile Manifesto practices are 268% more likely to fail than those which do the opposite. From the Engprax blog. This headline is catchy. So many of us have been involved in Agile projects over the last 10-20
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I’m a very casual gamer. And up till now I so no reason to update my iPad. I’ve been tempted by the new Apple Pencil, but that’s not enough. Seeing that Apple has released one of my favorite franchises on iPadOS has me wondering if I might
If the trial is successful, the researchers hope the drug will become available for all forms of toothlessness sometime around 2030. From Popular Mechanics. A bit of a random topic, but I’ve spent more time thinking about this than is warranted. Seeing articles listing the ability to grow new
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This new podcast has been such a delight to listen to. It’s reigniting my passion for pulling out some portable gaming again.
Maybe you’ve been here before. You’ve pushed all your energy and effort into a project, worked your tail off for months on end, and finally came to the theoretical finish line to see the reward for your labor. Then somethign shifts, somethings changes. You pause and look back,
To see it all shift this way, everywhere all at once, is a bit like a complete solar eclipse. It’s rare and we won’t see a shift like this happen again soon. Seth on theatrical runs. I’ve been paying more attention to theatrical and streaming the last
Following up my last post about piracy, I’ve often struggled with this for myself. I want to write, podcast, and share things with the world. I also dream of a world where I can make a little side income off of my writing. But then I feel like I’
As a teenager I pirated a lot of music and software, games, and the likes. I’m pretty sure every other kid with any technical savvy did the same. As I got older I stopped doing that, especially when the software I was purchasing was helping to support my growing
I don’t quite know how to do small talk well. I’ve studied up on it and have a decent grasp of it, and can hold myself well for a while in a group. But it’s draining. I see the value, but it wears me out. Instead of
From Apple Insider. Or, the only reason you had an old Apple TV lying around was to watch Netflix in the first place. I bought an Apple TV from the earlier generations and was extremely dissapointed in it. The hardware and software were absolute junk. The thing stopped working entirely
This has long been a joke within the technical world. Friends and long-forgotten connections reach out for help with their computers. These days its more based around iPhones, but occassionally you get a question about some ancient piece of hardware that needs some love. The memes that go around
If you wanted to contact someone asynchronously, you sent them an email. If you wanted to chat with messaging, you both needed to be online simultaneously. Modern messaging is like a cross between email and instant messaging: you can chat, live, just like with instant messaging, but you can send