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Not so fast any more

Since the lesson with Maria I have really tried to think about how I want Nemah to work and how we communicate. Time to try it out in reality with a show jumping lesson. The conditions wasn't the best this day. I fell of Nemah a couple of

Academic Dressage

Academic dressage

Academic dressage is something me and Nemah has been doing for a long time. The most significant difference between ordinary dressage and the academic one is that the academic focuses a lot on the rider. As a rider you are supposed to help the horse perform the best it can,

Practise makes better

A new lesson in show jumping. This time Lennart joined me on Spex in addition to the usual three ponies. The warmup was free, followed by three trotting poles on a volte. The middle pole was raised a bit from the ground. Nemah felt really great this day, she listened

Journeyman: thoughtbot

Journeyman: thoughtbot

thoughtbot [https://thoughtbot.com] is a company that to most Rubyists needs no introduction. Legion are its employees' contributions to the open source ecosystem. My first encounter with thoughbot occurred four years ago when Mike Burns moved to Stockholm and started looking for gigs around Christmas 2011. The following

Telepathic riding

Maria Sundin [http://www.equevent.se/om-maria-sundin/] is a riding instructor and coach from the south of Sweden. I had not heard of her before this lesson and was just curious to see how she would let the lesson play out and what I might learn from her. I shared

Higher, faster, more...

Time for another show jumping lesson at the neighbouring stable. This day Nemah understood what was going on as soon as we entered the arena. There were fences and they were there to be jumped! Nemah just couldn’t stand still and shortening my stirrup leathers was almost impossible. It

Low flying jet plane

New day, new lesson. This time in show jumping, with the next door stable owner, Marie, as our trainer. The ride started with a couple of half crazy-horses running around in a paddock just outside the arena. On the inside we had five equally tense horses wondering what all the

Working Equitation

I have decided to try to put my riding lessons in print, partly because I think there are people out there that might find them interesting, but mostly as a way for myself to analyse our progress. Recently we rode a lesson in Working Equitation (WE). WE is a bit

Riding for Paolo Bastos

Riding for Paolo Bastos

For a while now I’ve been hearing about this great trainer that makes magic, training horses and riders. When a possibility to ride a lesson for him turned up I naturally took the chance. The lesson started right on time, something very unusual when dealing with horses. We started

Thank you, year 2015

Thank you, year 2015

Thank you for all the great memories you’ve given me. Thanks for new friends (mostly one; Miriam), new insights, new ideas and challenges. I am so thankful for the great conferences I’ve had the pleasure of attending: ElixirConf in Krakow, Poland, Agila Sverige, UXOpen and Mejsla's

The second family

The second family

This is a translation of my Agila Sverige [http://agilasverige.se/] 2014 lightning talk "Den andra familjen". I was recently asked by Magine TV [https://magine.com] to give it again in English at an internal conference dedicated to company culture. For a recording of the original talk

Journeyman: Evothings

Journeyman: Evothings

Evothings [http://evothings.com] turned out to be an unexpected, but pleasant tour stop. When setting the dates it wasn't even certain that it would be the tour stop. I had namely latched on to Peter Svensson [https://www.linkedin.com/in/petersvensson] rather than a particular company.

Journeyman: Avanza

Journeyman: Avanza

Much like Agila Sverige [http://agilasverige.se] gave me the opportunity to introduce MittMedia [https://codecoupled.org/2015/11/06/journeyman-mittmedia] to MobProgramming [http://mobprogramming.org], it also opened the door for doing the same at Avanza [https://www.avanza.se], the largest online stock broker in Sweden. Leading up

Nemah is home again

She is thinner than before and extremely more hungry. Her colon is where it’s supposed to be and she is free of gases and pain and we didn't have to put her through surgery. However, she’s not allowed to eat as much as before until her

The call no horse owner ever want

Two days ago when I was just about to get up of the sofa and go make dinner I got a call from the stable owners. Getting a call from them can mean two things; either my co-rider has forgotten to take care of Nemah or Nemah is ill. Yesterday,

Journeyman: The next tour stop

Back in May I announced [https://codecoupled.org/2015/05/06/announcing-my-journeymanship] that I would go on a journeyman tour [https://codecoupled.org/journeyman-tour]. More than half a year later, that journey is coming to an end. Or rather, to a new beginning. During my journeyman travels, I was sorely

Ups and downs all at once

Ups and downs all at once

This autumn Nemah has been working more than ever before. It's been dressage trainings, hunts, show jumping competions, and working equitation, all mixed with some nice long rides in the woods. Sometimes I’ve had the feeling that something was a bit off. No-one has seen anything, Nemah&

Journeyman: Sqore

Journeyman: Sqore

It was Wednesday morning and I was in somewhat of a sour mood. The previous day's mob programming session hadn't progressed in any way I thought it would. To a greater extent than in other novice mobs I have attempted to facilitate, people had come and

Journeyman: Ruby Tapas

Journeyman: Ruby Tapas

The past week, Avdi Grimm [http://about.avdi.org] released the two episodes of Ruby Tapas [https://www.rubytapas.com] that he worked on during my stay with him and his lovely family in fair Tennessee. For now, I'm not going into details regarding the non-work parts of

Stack machine, part 3 - Burst into flames

In the first part [https://codecoupled.org/2015/10/18/stack-machine-part-1] we built a very basic stack-based machine and we introduced the concept of subroutines in the second part [https://codecoupled.org/2015/10/20/stack-machine-part-2]. Halt and catch fire Granting the name to a highly enjoyable TV series [https:

Journeyman: MittMedia

Journeyman: MittMedia

For an excellent writeup in Swedish from the perspective of the MittMedia development team, see Mathias Nylén's blog post [http://dev.mittmedia.se/team/blogging/lennart/2015/11/05/lennarts-journeyman-tour.html] . Satisifed with the last few adjustments to the presentation, I glanced out of the window at the

A journeyman's photographic guide to mob programming

Mob programming

A journeyman's photographic guide to mob programming

During my journeyman travels, I've been increasingly asked to facilitate and participate in mob programming [http://mobprogramming.org] sessions. This has resulted in a growing collection of pictures and recently it struck me that they could be put to good use. There are certainly plenty of check lists

Elixir Featured

Virtually Instructional

This is a slightly edited version of the talk I recently gave at ElixirConf 2015 [http://elixirconf.com] and Stockholm Elixir [www.meetup.com/stockholm-elixir/events/223392326]. Below is the recording of that talk, courtesy of Confreaks [http://confreaks.com]. Also, the presentation is available in all its glory [http:

Stack machine, part 2 - Hear me calling

In the previous part of this series [https://codecoupled.org/2015/10/18/stack-machine-part-1], we looked at implementing a very basic stack-based virtual machine [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_machine] in Elixir [http://elixir-lang.org] . At the end of it we began to ponder the concept of functions. But

Stack machine, part 1 - The deleted slide

During my ElixirConf talk [http://confreaks.tv/videos/elixirconf2015-virtually-instructional] I compared and contrasted register-based virtual machines [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_machine], like the BEAM, to stack-based virtual machines [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_machine], like the JVM [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine]. In doing