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Bouncy Balls and Agile Orgs

02 Aug 2026

Go and watch Steve Mould's video about bouncing balls and trampolines. I'll summarise the bits I care about here, but the video's really good. And I guess the rest of this post contains spoilers for it?

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Tags: agile management programming tdd tech xp

Ok. Let's talk about it.

04 May 2026

In the 90s, I was one of quite a few angry linux-evangelizing teenagers who hated Microsoft with the kind of all-consuming passion usually only available to the blissfully young and inexperienced.

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Tags: programming tech tech-industry philosophy

Care: The missing ingredient

22 Mar 2026

I really want to write software that's actually good.

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Tags: programming agile literate sysadmin tdd tech tech-industry testing xp bsd

From Agility to Stability

12 Oct 2023

I think we could plot basically all software projects1 on this graph:

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Tags: programming tdd tech testing management agile stability
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