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We were lucky to catch Elim Chan’s debut at SF Symphony last Fri after she was named the next music director, and it was really special. She said she felt humbled and grateful at taking on the role, and she exuded a really direct, open, youthful energy.

She conducted La Mer, one of my favorite orchestral pieces, and one I’ve probably heard the SF Symphony play a dozen times. She also conducted Sascha Cooke, a long time collaborator of MTT’s, and they had a pretty emotional passing-the-torch moment in his memory. Everyone felt his presence, and his blessing, so strongly.

No one can replace MTT, of course, and I’m still pretty heartbroken that we couldn’t keep Esa-Pekka, but Chan seems poised to bring on a new era. Can’t wait for the 27-28 season!

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The Great Supply Chain Security Paradox:

“every open source lib is getting owned! wait at least a week to patch, let other people find the supply chain breaches before you”

“AI is reversing all these patches, the window to exploit is down to just hours now, patch your shit immediately!”

🧐

(Credit to James Wilson and Brad Arkin. Threat intel feeds may be the answer, eg Sentinel One, Checkmarx, Socket, etc. Somehow we came full circle back around to antivirus!)

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I’ve been a daily coffee drinker for decades, and I’m taking a break for a month right now. No real reason, just trying it.

Halfway through, not much to report. One mild headache early on. No noticeable difference in energy. (I’m pretty insensitive to caffeine.)

I definitely still miss it though!

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Fixed time, variable scope

Just like content development in any other medium, software development reduces to the elimination of entropy. Unlike other media, however, there is very little else to count. The problem is that you and/or your team can only eliminate a fixed-ish number of bits of entropy per unit time, and at the outset you don’t know how many bits there are in the problem to eliminate. So you say we’re gonna work this much, and whatever comes out the other end of that process is whatever you get. In the current theory, and sometimes in practice, this is how sprints are supposed to work, and the material that doesn’t fit is accumulated into some backlog or other.

– Dorian Taylor, Agile as Trauma

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