Do you need the song to tell you to get shit done? Isn’t listening to that just putting it back further?

Usually I open soundcloud.com and have music from there running in the background. No specific songs I regularly or specifically for this I come back to. I do have my likes, shares, and follows though, if the feed is unfitting.

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Did they overestimate their flexibility?

If it was prototypes, I assume it wasn’t a bought nor sold product?

None of them are FOSS. Dunno about calling them SaaS.

• My email provider, 1 € per month, posteo.de.
• My VPS (virtual private server), netcup.de.
• Does Amazon Prime count?

And phone plans are flats.

You must mean Flatrate? A term for a flat/fixed price with unrestricted volume (the default for home internet; mobile phone plans have variance).

I’m not aware of anything being called “flats” in German. Could be an abbreviation in circles though.

I enjoyed Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon quite a bit. It’s not exceptional or great, but good. It certainly tells a unique story.

• Touchphone
• Voicetransmitter
• Walky-Talky
• Mini-PC

The alternatives are endless

Fun fact: In Germany, mobile phones are called “Handy” instead of “mobile phone”

Windows supports ARM https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/overview

I have a prepaid plan that I never change. It costs nothing per month and I get 10 MB inclusive. I only add internet volume bundles when I need it for navigation for longer trips - to ensure it does not exceed that price (gets slower after).

YouTube: Johnny Cash - Hurt

I didn’t know it by name, but it’s an iconic classic. I immediately recognized it.

YouTube link for anyone else who wants to check it out/listen to it: Machine Messiah (2008 Remaster) and Machine Messiah (1980?)

/edit: My personal assessment: Too wild/disorganized for me :P

Creating the list made me wonder what more I could list so I took a peek into my music collection. Maybe Neil Young, which reminds me of my deceased mother (I didn’t include it here). Or other genres that would fit too, given that I do listen to a lot of or more of other genres. I found more highlights:

• The This Will Destroy You songs I Believe in Your Victory, The World Is Our ___, Threads
• Hula Hooper - Reach
• Sylvan Esso - Die Young (Echo Mountain Sessions)
• Sylvan Esso - Coffee (NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert) (the first song)
• Juli - Dieses Leben
• Samy Deluxe - One Take Wonder 2 Meisterplan
• Banyan Tree - Feel The Sun Rise (until 2:09; transitions great into next song; a sunrise into wakeup beat; I have only the first on a mix CD in my car, and I always intuitively expect the followup but something different follows 😄)

“Hits hard” may be subjective and situational, but I guess it can be interpreted as emotionally touches you?

• Lissie - Pursuit of Happiness (Live at Brighton Great Escape 2010)
• The Cranberries - Zombie
• Baz Luhrmann - Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen
• The intro soundbit on Infinity Train
• The episode intros of Jobless Reincarnation (“Mushoku Tensei”) (song with video mix) - always with episode relevant content, showing the world, incredible world-building, with its amazing harmonic conclusion)

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I can’t get what it describes through all the Jedi stuff and jokes.

One mentor and one apprentice? And everything else remains unspecified and open?

For FOSS, as it is described, it makes me think it’s a big investment with unclear risk (will they even stay as a contributor?). Which of course can be contextualized - but then what is left here?

What’s a struggle session?

Inbox fright is an interesting term. I certainly know and can relate to what you are talking about.

It doesn’t affect me too much I don’t think, but I know the feeling you are talking about. And I wonder how related or intersecting to/with social anxiety it is.

I sometimes do things (cleanup, refacs) off-ticket / not part of the ticket. It can be a light alternative when other stuff is complicated and demotivating. Depending on your environment and team/contract setup, simply doing it could be more difficult though.

If it serves your satisfaction and productivity, and is good for the product, then it’s not wasted. Not everything has to be - or even can be - preplanned.

Or Modified Viable/Valuable Product

I don’t have experience with that in particular. I’ll share my more general, tangential thoughts.

MVP is minimal. Extending the scope like that makes me very skeptical (towards scoping and the processes).

Everything you are concerned with would be important topics for retrospectives, or even meetings with management. But of course those don’t exist or are open in all environments. In my team I could openly raise such concerns.

If you’re always rushing to a deadline, or feel like that, think of what you can do and influence to improve that. Retrospectives? Team disuscussions? Partly tuning out of management given focus and doing what you deem important and right? Look for a different team or employer?

Remember, when we do that, we are getting a binary file. But in my imaginary example, we are getting a ‘video description’ in form of PostScript.

The example is a reference/link with handling instructions.

When I think of video metadata, we already have and use formats for that, in a more general and versatile manner.

Maybe I’m missing the point, but sending instructions is a very different and restricted approach.

I like that we describe data and how it shall render. That way, the data is accessible for various interpretations and uses.