Rewilding Software Engineering Chapter 6

Simon Wardley and Tudor Girba have posted the latest chapter to their book, Rewilding Software Engineering, titled "Myths we tell ourselves."

As these posts are on Medium but also licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0, I turned the chapters into a book that you can download in PDF form. The "code", as it were, is freely available as it's just the Medium posts converted into asciidoc format.

I very much appreciate them writing and publishing the book and I hope this format makes it easier for more people to read.

Welcome to My Post Mid-life Crisis

Three boxes on the floor. A Pioneer DDJ-FLX4, headphones, and a pair of monitor speakers.

Yes, I finally took the plunge and bought some toys that I've been thinking about for much of 2025. I was a radio DJ in college and this is a very different kind of DJ gear...but thinking about how to move from one song to another is quite enjoyable to me and I want to do move of it and do it more like professionals.

Do I plan on making a career out of DJing? No. I can't stay up that late anymore. Do I plan on doing this publically? Eh, if it happens it happens, but it is not the goal. What is the goal? To learn something new and have fun. I'm pretty sure I can do that.

The Gear:

  • Pioneer DDJ-FLX4
  • Eris 3.5TB monitor speakers
  • Sennheiser HD 280 PRO headphones
  • rekordbox (software to control my deck)

This is all "bang for buck" gear, because this is just for fun.