Topics included wiki migration, management of assets, the new Image plugin and the commons asset folder, hard links on the filesystem, how to discover and share expert knowledge in action, the history of terms around lightweight methods such as XP and Scrum, the deliberate rhetorical choices made to fend off certain sorts of lip-service corruption (XP, particularly), how the transition from "Hacker School" to "Recurse Center" and "Mob Programming" to "Ensemble Programming" are different, catastrophe theory, complexity, combinatoric explosion in production software, the limitations of testing in complex distributed systems (like much cloud-deployed software), DevOps and tests for software validation as somewhat at odds, metastable failure cases (once failed, much more work to switch back to the un-failed state), metastability in electronics and dynamical systems, causally efficacious systems in a living context and others, internals of New Relic's data collection de-duplication with throttling, Bloom Filters, Skip Lists, probabilistic data structures, building and traversing XOR based doubly linked lists ("don't try this at home!"), aspect-oriented programming in Java (AspectJ) now largely represented by the Spring framework's approach, the last Strange Loop conference, an early AspectJ developer, Crista Lopes, speaking at a Strange Loop ending keynote on The Future of Conferences which might be telepresence-linked among satellite conference centers if travel is less frequent.
Dropping in a link specific to some of Marc's reflections. He described how institutions might be deliberately created with appropriate links to the biophysical world and people which might be good anchors. Some pages from Marc's wiki that appear relevant to his thoughts about organizations and the center column; the left column (biophysical world) as physical truth, limits, reality; the center column of organizations for action with regard to a purpose, also in Marc's reflection, including beauty; and the right side, the recursive hierarchy of human governance mirroring the recursive hierarchy of the geography of the biophysical world, but organizations being linked in a not completely hierarchical way to institutions of governance, to the world, and among each other.
Relocalize Creativity on ecological and political recursions of scale. site 