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TL;DR: I’m shutting down list.blogug.ch and stats.blogug.ch, unless you save it by taking over. Over the past few years I have been maintaining parts of the blogug.ch project, namely the list and the stats. I haven’t done any actual development on those since 2006 but they have been running fine. From time to time I even confirmed the blogs to make sure they match our community guidelines. But time has been short for that and the list of unconfirmed blogs has been constantly growing with nobody else picking up the slack. This even though a few people have admin access and access is liberally granted. And of course the stats project shows that people just aren’t blogging anymore. ...

Scrum is a software development method. It’s been on my radar for a long time but mostly with a negative air to it. After I finally overcame a lot of my prejudices, I recently started to look into it seriously. And it turns out it makes a lot more sense and it’s a lot easier than I used to think. I blame the gazillions of Scrum consultancies out there for sometimes overcomplicating things. In the end it comes down to these few points: ...