Oh. Dinah Washington, "I've Got You Under My Skin".

This is one of the most famous live takes in the history of jazz. Those trumpets playin' the dozens? That's Clark Terry, Maynard Ferguson, and Clifford Brown.
And the trash-talk here is stunning, no question, but when Dinah comes back in, after the boys blow themselves out stylin', she re-asserts why she is the one they're trying to impress.
...don't you know little fool? You never can win...

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25 Apr
When large teams struggle with trunk-based development (TBD) or continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD), a good strategy is to re-orient how the teams face "backsteps", moments in our workflow where a discovery forces us to re-open a stage we thought was closed.
It's been a hard stretch for those of us seeking peace and equity. I offer this geekery not to suggest it matters as much as that does, but only to give us a little respite.

Stay safe, stay strong, stay angry, stay kind.

Black Lives Matter.
Large teams & projects often pre-date the use of modern synthesis techniques like TBD or CD, and during adoption, intermixing their Before with this new After can produce quite a bit of discomfort. If it gets bad enough, it can even kill off the improvement effort. What to do?
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24 Apr
Books, tho, I had books, or anyway access to books.
And paper -- we had a box-wrapping plant nearby that gave away last year's wrapping paper -- and pencils and pens.
The paper was thin, thinner than a sheet of notebook paper, but thicker than your standard "gift-wrap" paper. It would have a pattern on side, or a solid color, and was white on the inside. It was pre-cut to fit a standard lid, cut-outs at the corners.
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24 Apr
Here's the Count Basie Orchestra, "The Hucklebuck".

With the Basie orchestra, the challenge is to find the jewels in the dross. It's Sturgeon's law everywhere.
We're at this place where large orchestras are just, rightly so in my view, fading. And of course Basie is a player, a serious player, but his orchestra takes are not him.
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24 Apr
Here's Eddie Vinson, "Please Send Me Someone To Love".

I'm not a huge Vinson fan, but this combo is exquisite. Listen to this piano and this guitar simultaneously collaborating and playing the dozens on each other.
Each time I think they're not together, they convince me they knew what they were doing all along.
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19 Apr
A couple of days back, I tweeted about SAFe. It created some stir on the timeline, which was great, as I got to see a lot of perspectives. I want to use that tweet as an excuse to talk about something much larger. This will be a long one. :)
Meanwhile, I remind you, geekery's not as important right now as some other things.

Please, stay safe, stay strong, stay angry, stay kind.

Black Lives Matter.

We are the only thing that can change this.
This muse is not really about SAFe for the most part, but about all of what the "methodology turn" in our trade produces. I do have one specific thing to say about SAFe, tho, so let's do that first and get it out of the way.
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19 Apr
q: what is the streamish way to do this, if there is one:

look at a stream of items for a (hardwired in my case) criterion, returning the emptySet if they meet it, and the set of all of them if they don't?
N.B. I know how to do this w/o using stream-ish operations. I was just wondering if there's some sexy stream way.
I don't care about efficiency, either, or the optimal solution for my case. I am specifically asking a question about stream operations.
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