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I really enjoyed my conversation with @yveshanoulle.bsky.social in episode 197 of his podcast Who Is Agile.

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The paper copy won't be ready until next spring... this is the early access release. When hardcopy is available I'm pretty sure it will be stocked by the online book sellers - and it should be orderable by your local bookshop.

Our 40+ automation patterns have been crowd-sourced from the #BDD community and are presented in a language agnostic fashion. Examples in the main text of the book will use #Reqnroll, but we document variations for other ports of #Cucumber in the appendices (and in the example code on the website).

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Gáspár Nagy and I are very happy to announce that our new book, Effective Behavior-Driven Development, is now available from Manning: hubs.la/Q03L7kXM0

This book includes updated content previously self-published in The BDD Books Series along with an all new section, BDD Automation Patterns.

I'm looking forward to this retro on UML in Edinburgh next week. Free entry; drinks and pizza.

Register at edinburgh.bcs.org/events/2025/...

It's strange how bits of UML are still used widely, but that you never really hear it mentioned.

Pragmatic Programmer flash sale:
• When: Sept 18, 9am CT – Sept 20, 9am CT
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#pragprog
@pragprog

Lean Agile Scotland in September? @markdalgarno.bsky.social

@aiannucci.bsky.social @helenlewis.bsky.social Strong Recommend: Sylvia Townsend Warner. Most popular is Lolly Willowes, but I enjoyed The Corner That Held Them even more.

Another author who never wrote the same book twice.

@dianaofportland.bsky.social are you coming to Scotland at all, Diana?

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Last month AI crawlers generated 90% of my site's traffic, forcing me to pay penalties

Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking.

Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors

Hermit I am 🧙‍♂️

I will 😊

That's great news!

Really pleased that James Shore, author of "The Art of Agile Development", is making the trip to keynote this year's Agile Cambridge.

More about James here: agilecambridge.net/keynotes/jam...

And "high maintenance" isn't far from "unmaintainable" either.

A circle rather than an axis?

Grid Frequency Stability and Renewable Power - Engineering.com The challenges of maintaining AC power quality in a renewables-intensive grid.

I found this article helpful in filling in the basic gaps in my knowledge: www.engineering.com/grid-frequen...

BCS Edinburgh Branch event: 07/05/25 Continuous Integration — that’s not what they meant Wednesday 7th May 2025, 6:30 pm.

I’m coming to Scotland again… Courtesy of @sebrose.bsky.social, I’ll be at BCS Edinburgh 6:30pm Wed 7th May, on the topic “Continuous Integration — that’s not what they meant”

Full details and registration link here: edinburgh.bcs.org/events/2025/...

Hope to see some of you there!

Thanks, Thierry.

Framing modernization : short vs long term benefits

Align on trade offs : is not long vs short but many different options in the possible trade offs

Fear and hope : show what you would like to see as results and what you fear will happen in inaction

Ongoing vigilance : fighting every day to put pressure towards modernization

To fight against the gravity of anti-modernization @nick-tune.me proposes an anti-FAFO framework :
Framing
Aligning
Fear & Hope
Ongoing struggle

[editor’s note : by an extreme coincidence that happens to be a very common approach to fighting for social change !]

Flowcon x Payfit with @trond.hjorteland.com @andrewhl.bsky.social @baruica.bsky.social @malk-zameth.bsky.social @sebrose.bsky.social @nick-tune.me @agabrillagues.bsky.social @tdpauw.bsky.social Krisztina Hirth , Pierrick Blons and Sébastien Chauffray (missing some username there 😅)

@mikemoran.bsky.social can you suggest someone from the Rust community that might be interested in giving an introductory session for BCS Edinburgh at one of our branch meetings (September onwards)?

The branch chairman, Kevin Fisher will be your host and meeting manager. What email address should I give him?

Thanks. Registered!

Final paragraph of chapter 2: "I have not seen any evidence that people want choice. I see plenty of evidence that people want services that work."

John Seddon's "Systems Thinking in the Public Sector" is a much more enjoyable read than the title might lead you to believe. And just as relevant today as it was when it was published in 2008.

The emperor's new medicinal compound, unless my eyes describe me 🤣