SOMH Featured SOMH #1 - Ode to Verbose Commitment Recently, Tekin Süleyman wrote an article on the some of the virtues of preferring git's verbose commit mode. I myself am a staunch supporter of this notion and, given the very nature of Twitter, gave it my full, succinct, and somewhat inflammatory endorsement.
DIY Featured The 20th Tepache in the 21st Century Following the Ides of June in the year of 2018, I prepared my first batch of tepache [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tepache]. The process of fermenting pineapple has very little to do with references to the Roman calendar [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar] though they did have
Mob programming Featured Mob It! For this year's Ship It! [https://shipitconf.org] conference I gave a talk on mob programming. Seeing that I had been given the time slot directly after lunch on the first day of the conference, I decided to switch things up a little. Thus, instead of giving an
Nemah Epiphanies Today I had an epiphany. A really annoying epiphany, as I have known the theory behind it for years and today I managed to try it out in practice. I managed to raise my eyes and look where I was going, instead of looking at my beautiful horse. One of
Horses Kyra Kyrklund showing and teaching at Flyinge One of my biggest idols in riding is Kyra Kyrklund. She is a dressage rider and teacher, has written books and made videos and they have all made great sense to me. So when she came to Sweden I just had to go and watch her in real life, since
Elixir A bramble of raspberries For the past few months I've been increasingly obsessing over the idea of building a cluster of computers. Partly, to accelerate my learning, understanding, and internalisation of distributed computing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing]. Partly, to generate some new content to write about here and talk
Nemah Happy horsey days Appointment with the physiotherapist This week Nemah had an appointment with her physiotherapist, Helene, for a general checkup. In the past these visits has been a about Nemahs undeveloped back muscles and the stiffness in her hocks. My guess was that this visit would be no different, even though I&
Horses New adventures on Ireland After the most lovely week at Bel-Air it was time to bid our hosts goodbye and move on to other adventures. But first I would like to take a moment and look back at my week at Bel-Air. Bel-Air is such a lovely place, I always feel welcome and very
Horses Last day of cross country Only two hours of riding today, starting at 10 o’clock. Woke up and didn’t really want to get out of bed at all. I would like to stay here forever and just ride. I got out of bed eventually, had a smaller breakfast and got ready for the
Ireland Cross country day five Where two in our group needs to visit the doctor’s and we jump even more fences. But first things first, starting with the 10 o'clock ride. I got to ride the gigantic (170 cm) Rocky. Such an amazing horse! You would think a horse as big as
Horses Cross country day four Where I begin the day by looking out the window and wishing I could jump the fences I can see others jump. I also still feel quite ok, my body not sore at all. The day began with a steady breakfast. The breakfast has grown in size each day, going
Horses Cross country day three Where we get a calmer day, with only a two hour ride out in the morning and one lesson in the afternoon. Our four friends from Sweden arrived today, and got their first cross country lesson. The day started with a sleep in, the first ride didn't start
Horses Cross country part two Where the only aching body parts are my shoulders. Bruises are starting to form on the inside of my calves. Other than that I feel perfectly fine, but tired. An ordinary day here at the Bel-Air Equestrian Centre begins with breakfast around 8. A bit before 9 we go to
Horses Cross country riding in Ireland What does a horse girl do on her vacation? She spends it with horses. With whom does she spend her vacation? With the friends from the stable, of course. Does she has to stay home, to take care of her own horse? No, she doesn’t, she leaves the horse
Nemah Cross country camp at Runsten Equestrian A three day camp, with four lessons with the instructor Ulf Johansson [http://cykloneventing.se/] at Runsten Equestrian Centre [https://runsten.com/]. As I don't like going alone to strange places me and Nemah was accompanied by Sabrina and Spex. Preparations The information before the camp was sparse
Mob programming Featured Sticky mob programming This is an excerpt from and my contribution to the experience reports section of Mob Programming - A Whole Team Approach by Woody Zuill and Kevin Meadows. If you want to start mob programming, but don't quite know how, I can highly recommend getting the book! In 2015
Nemah Moving forward and jumping higher A lesson aimed at practising more than just the riding between the fences. We started off with some ground poles on a volte, first in trot and then in canter, to get the horses warmed up. We also added a smaller volte on the short side, where we began with
Show jumping Bounces all the way down > The wonderful thing about Nemah is that Nemah is a wonderful thing! Her ears are pointed forward Her legs are just like springs! She’s bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun! Tigger's Song from Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too Bounces, bounces, bounces. Not
Nemah Diamonds are a girl’s best friend At last another lesson in academic riding. This time Suz had planned a really difficult exercise for us: The diamond. The diamond is ridden between the middle of the sides of the arena. To make it a bit more interesting I was told to test different ways to put my
Dressage There is no such thing as talent No, really, there isn’t. The only way to reach your goal is to work hard and learn to push back when things get hard. And this day, me and Nemah pushed back! We started working on that canter of ours. The one that just keeps running away from us.
Nemah Turns turns turns Time for a new show jumping lesson. Lennart and Timmen joined us again, making it a perfect family evening. This lesson started off with the whole group trotting ground poles. When Marie was happy with us all, she told us to ride small circles before and after the middle pole.
Nemah The fences have fangs One thing I find really strange about Nemah is this: As long as we jump every week she jumps like a normal horse, but as soon as she gets a week off she starts behaving like the fences have fangs. Nemah seems convinced that the fences will eat her alive
Nemah More working equitation Time for some Working Equitation. This time it was only me and Karin riding, almost like getting the instructor, Jackie, all to myself. We started with some free riding as a warmup, but after a while Jackie gathered us together and told us to ride on a big volte and
