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How do I get Windows 11 to Stop Updating the Background Back to Bing Wallpaper
I occasionally remote in to my personal Windows machine in addition to my work Windows machine and I have a personal Mac and work Mac that (despite stickers on the personal one) I somehow can’t tell apart. So I usually use a wallpaper from Svalbard from Cecilia Blomdahl and a Set-Wallpaper.ps1 script to set my…
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The Core Purpose of an Agile Methodology: Incremental Validation and Course Correction – A Reference Guide
There’s a persistent confusion in the software development world about what makes an agile methodology valuable. Teams often focus on ceremonies, tools, and processes while missing the fundamental purpose. The value in agile development methodologies is in their incremental validation of course correctness and ability to adjust time/quality/cost to new information as soon as possible.…
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Ruby Gem Dependency Constraints: Stop Making This Harder Than It Needs To Be
The Ruby community has a collective anxiety disorder about gem versioning. Half the ecosystem pins everything to exact versions out of paranoia, the other half uses >= and hopes for the best, and meanwhile we’re all stuck resolving dependency conflicts that shouldn’t exist. Here’s what actually works, based on where your code lives in the…