Agile mmkay

Came across Uncle Bob Martin’s Clean Agile talk1, putting words to paper on it… DRAFT so far It seems a lot of the original folks from the original Agile Manifesto are speaking up about how “the industry " got it all wrong. Dave Thomas emphasizes, it’s a adjective not a noun. Martin Fowler, emphasizes that SAFE is Shitty Agile for Enterprises. I came across a presentation from Robert Martin introing his book Clean Agile recently too....

June 4, 2025 · (updated June 7, 2025) · 3 min · 626 words · Michal Piekarczyk

super scripts

adapting super script references I was mentioning in another post1 about switching from hyperlinks to citation style links thanks to seeing Doug Slater’s2 use of this technique. I am sure I have seen it elsewhere too but I forget. how to use the new technique An inline reference is simply “some text<sup>[1](#references)</sup>”, which has a corresponding 1. blahblah at the references at the end To make sure hugo allows the custom <sup> html you need in your config....

May 31, 2025 · (updated June 2, 2025) · 1 min · 161 words · Michal Piekarczyk

tabs vs spaces redux

Going over Rich Hickey’s Simple Made Easy talk, clicked for me not just w.r.t. code but behaviorally1 too. So now I’m seeing the braids and weaves everywhere. Why do we still use browser tabs, they are very distracting when they accumulate. And the fact that they do accumulate is almost its own evidence of distraction that has occurred. But when you think, okay let me close the tabs, you try to close a tab but you read it and instantly get sucked back into what you were doing before....

May 31, 2025 · (updated June 2, 2025) · 3 min · 595 words · Michal Piekarczyk

trials of error

I have very much appreciated Anna Lembke’s Dopamine Nation. Easy rewards brings the gremlins that sit on the pain side of the scale, and thats withdrawal. In contrast, working through a challenging task, with mini milestones along the way, is reinforcing and stimulating. And small risks in the work feel good too. This is trial and error. I suppose trial and error is a kind of one armed bandit slot machine too but it involves effort and energy and care and attention, and it lets you learn of course and you come out with some kind of end product hopefully....

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · 361 words · Michal Piekarczyk

apple photos to immich

draft A few weeks ago stumbled upon an amazing Apple iPhoto alternative, immich, a self hosted photo server, and I have been on the journey to migrate but wow Apple has been shining exceptionally in maintaining its death-grip on my assets, relentlessly reaffirming why I am trying to get off Apple Photos. Immich gives you the control Apple Photos lacks and it has really nice UI elements too. Willing to serve Seeing the bustling development on the immich github and pleased to see both geolocation pinching goodness and time granularity on a nice demo site, I started flipping through the nice looking docs, but I did not easily notice how I can start serving my immich instance in the cloud....

May 16, 2025 · (updated June 2, 2025) · 3 min · 565 words · Michal Piekarczyk