Stuff I consumed, pondered, and in extreme cases acted upon. War 🔗What to expect when Russia invades Bizarrely, the cohort in greatest danger might be your surfers. The ideologue behind the “Russian world” concept, Aleksandr Dugin, assigns a special place in hell to them: “The most terrible ghettos will be made for surfers – this is the most impudent, the most anti-Eurasian phenomenon. There is nothing more revolting than riding on this disgusting board displaying a white-toothed smile.

Stuff I consumed, pondered, and in extreme cases acted upon. The Power Grid 🔗How does the power grid work? It’s rather complex, and this complexity derives from an endless balancing act. When Large Language Models Attack 🔗Or rather, when their ever-hungry bots trash a site: If you try to rate-limit them, they’ll just switch to other IPs all the time. If you try to block them by User Agent string, they’ll just switch to a non-bot UA string (no, really).

Much has been written about the problems with story points. What do they mean? Why do we use them? My intention is not convince you of their value, but here is how I use them, and what they mean to me. Maybe this will be of use to you if you find yourself in a pointy environment, with no hope of rescue. I use them in two ways: a trick to trigger discussion and refinement of stories a way to prevent overloading a team in the long haul In a sense, points are an artefact of the way work is fed into the team: batched vs streamed; owned by the team vs thrown at the team.