Random things in May
0. I got married at the end of April
1. Tim Rogers & Benett Foddy discussing sports
In a panel (Youtube video) at Indiecade East 2014, Tim Rogers & Benett Foddy, two game designers are discussing and ranking sports in terms of the quality of their game design.
2. The common swift made its way to Berlin on 05/07
A pretty amazing bird that eat/drink/sleep/mate in the air and can go for years without ever going on the ground. We have a few nests next to our appartment.. They’re really fast.
3. Patterns, the defacto scrum standard
James Coplien on Scrum:
- The history of scrum, patterns
- Scrum is about responsibility, trust, self-management to improve efficiency
- Why are you doing daily stand-ups? retros? daily scrum?
- How do you treat bugs? When should decisions to be made?
- Using patterns to wake up common-sense…
- Gathering and analysing patterns in one’s organisation. Creating a dialog around it.
- Going back to the roots
- It’s all about becoming, not about being or about doing.
4. ElMobo (ex-Moby) new release
Where he dusts off his amiga and releases some old .mods
Dusting off the amiga on Bandcamp.
5. 4mat releases Nadir
an album which synthesizes a whole lot of influences:
Nadir on Bandcamp
