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Paternal Discrimination: The Unbalanced Narrative on Caregiving in the UK @barclaytweets/paternal-discrimination-the-unbalanced-narrative-on-caregiving-in-the-uk-fa7a1d7f80a0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@barclaytweets…

Why is it that there is conversation about women’s safety but no conversation about paternal discrimination? Both these subjects need attention and the one sided presentation by the media is what plays into the narrative of people like the Tate brothers #londonpolitics

The only two teams in the Premier League to have won both their last three games, both come from Liverpool.

Dear @Apple design people, why not allow #applewatch users the ability to change the colour of the notification dot that appears at the top of the watch face? It would stop the red dot from ruining the watch face theme that’s applied. 🔴

Useful history (This will bring out the haters, but 🤷). Agile working methods date back to the early '80s & are a natural evolution of TPS/Lean from the '70s, sans the manufacturing part. The first shop I worked in out of school was agile (autonomous teams, frequent releases, etc.), though we didn't call it that. The Agile Manifesto came along in 2001. It was meant to be a snapshot of what a handful of practitioners had been doing for a decade or more—that's it. We've been learning over the past 20 years, but the underlying thinking is still solid. I've a more modern take at holub.com/heu. Kent Beck's "Extreme Programming Explained" was published around the same time, and it was more influential than the Manifesto. However, the techniques were truly extreme in the CMMI corporate world of the time. Many smaller shops saw the goodness and jumped on XP, but the corporations shied away in horror, discounting it as nonsensical. XP was the first Agile process that anybody had ever heard of. It dominated the landscape, and nobody paid any attention at all to Scrum during that period. Scrum was not practiced anywhere I knew of, at least. Then the Scrum-industrial-complex PR machine kicked into gear with their certificates, and the corporations lapped it up. Scrum was initially marketed with "Most executives today are not happy with their organization's ability to deliver systems at reasonable cost and time frames." That quote is on the back cover of Schwaber and Beedle's Agile Software Development with Scrum [2002], the first book on Scrum that was widely read. The blurb also says, "Learn how to simplify XP implementation through a Scrum wrapper." XP was first by their own admission. The certificate mills Scrum-was-first myth gives it legitimacy & an air of implied superiority, but that's complete BS. Scrum was just a handful of teams and academic papers for years after XP. When the OOPSLA paper was published in 1995, many of us had been working in "Agile' ways for a decade or more, and the paper inspired zero industry adoption. Same for Takeuchi and Nonaka's excellent "The New New Product Development Game" [1986, tinyurl.com/nxapmmx]. The Scrum described in that paper has little resemblance to Scrum as currently practiced. The corporations drawn to certification snake oil are also deeply impacted by Larman's Law. They implemented Scrum as what they were already doing but with new names. E.g., there's no Project Manager role in Scrum, but you find it in virtually every corporate "Scrum" shop. This whitewashing transmogrified Scrum into the putrid steaming mass it is now. That, in turn, dragged Agile (which those corporations were always, and still are, inimical to) down with it. So, the original Agile thinking and practices are still great ways to build software, but they've been buried under a heap of corporate excrement, too smelly for anybody to be interested in excavating to find the gold underneath. It's too bad, really.

Every time I sign into LinkedIn I do a little sick in my mouth.

What kind of country is it you live in when governments, politicians, media, billionaires and corporations can’t generate the kind of excitement that two working class brothers talking to each other again can? Mods rule. @NoelGallagher @liamgallagher

Isn’t it interesting to see how much more exposure a boat sinking gets when its inhabitants are wealthy versus people seeking a better life in another country. #yacht @banksy

The internet seems a bit grumpy right now. Going to give it a rest for a bit.

Dear @Mr_Bingo is that supposed to be you in the new Specsavers commercial?

@TheFigen_ Stay-there

If you had him what would you name him?

@NoContextBrits Losing 1706 games of soggy biscuit meant he was ready to be PM

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Apple’s attention to detail is INSANE. You can’t watch this and not smile.

Oh. Love this. Lady Love - Oden & Fatzo, Camden Cox open.spotify.com/track/3ACTBfO2… @CamdenCoxMusic @ODEN_and_FATZO

So much missing from #bbcqt tonight. Mic and Stevie for a start. More seriously: sensible people

PLEASE can @laurenlaverne and @charltonbrooker present something regularly @BBC6Music Perfection.

What have you done with #Ventura 13.4 @Apple ? My mac is slow as after updating. Terrible, apps, response times, screen transitions. Are there known issues? Or is this another attempt to force me to shell out on new hardware! #macOS #macbookpro

Last weeks @DefectedRecords podcast bangs! Thank you @iamRimarkable 🙏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/def…

Nothing, absolutely nothing happens at pace in a garden centre on a Friday in summer.

Ted Lasso is sentimental clap trap. It’s beautiful.