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Cake day: September 13th, 2023

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  • I worked with my team and we naturally evolved to a Scrum-lite. Or what scrum consultants might derogatorily call scrum-but. We do sprints, the team plans their own work, we do not do the daily standup since no one wanted it. Just having time blocked focused work has made us very productive without burnout. If your manager locks in too Mich on by the book scrum it becomes a pointless waste of time and ceremony.











  • Years ago I started out programming in QBASIC specifically because ms-dos came with a flavor that had a number of games that you could run. With the gorillas game (two gorillas throwing exploding bananas at each other) I had a direct feedback loop on what the code changes did. No book or help files, just raw edit and trial-and-error. Later on I moved to DarkBasic which was essentially a basic wrapper onto a 3D engine for making games. I loved both for their simplicity.

    What would be the similar modern corollaries if I wanted my kids to have that early exposure nowadays?