Dima @dima@3dots.lv

what are good XMPP clients for Macs and iPhones?

The complexity I had was due to a custom domain setup, networking and containers.

Finally I've found some time to setup an XMPP server. It's not finished just yet, but it's amazing how ejabbetd and conversations mostly just work.

This morning I learned about the PyBay.com conference in SF. Here I'm am listening to Puthon talks and talking to Python people

What's a good place to register a .com domain?

Is there a good article that explains that story points in agile are about complexity, not the implementation time?

A plus point if it explains that points are implentor independed. So a story worth X points regardless if it's done by an intern or by a senior developer.

And explanation of velocity would be welcome.

P.S. I might be completely wrong, articles that argue for the opposite are also welcomed.

Ironically, shortly after posting previous message my phone started vibrating without showing any message. After a minute I got a notification for a missed call.

Here we go, we've got a phone that makes it impossible to answer a call!

It might be not a big deal in consumers. But is there really a different set of standards for medical or military use?

I see poor execution everywhere.

IT "solutions" that are actually poorly created and over engineered pieces put together with duck tape.

Netflix got me so deep into murder series that I don't see any other genre recommended. YouTube decided not to show the ad skip button when I cast to Chromecast on my phone, but it teases me that I'm "able" to skip an an ad in 5 seconds. I close the app instead.

What if current major content providers loose their market share just because of poor implementation of new features.

I'm back after almost a week long hike in Trinity Alps.

I plan to spend a long weekend and company-wide holiday hiking in Trinity Alps in upstate California.

Yesterday I picked up a backpack and packed. Surprisingly, everything fits including a camera, lenses and food.

I'll use an electronic map in addition to an old school map.

To keep my bottom dry and clean I cut out a shield out of a roll mat.

P.S. I like the term Upstate California, because Bay Area us referred to as "Northern California". Bay area is in the middle, imho!

(as I'm in a chatty mood)

I was also surprised how two products of a big corporation flooded my timeline.

Why a lot of tweets pretend to be toots and show up in my fediverse timeline?

Did my first swim in ages and it was better than expected!