Brianbuttonxp
agilestl.com
Brianbuttonxp
@agilestl.com
Former developer, now a Director over XP-based software teams, working the Agile life. Husband of an incredible wife, father of three successful, wonderful children. Strong atheist.

Baseball and hockey fan, like everyone in St. Louis!
Saturday In The Park - Chicago

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Chicago- Saturday in the Park "Live" (1972)
YouTube video by ChicagoKid1969
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November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Floor Jansen of Nightwish.
October 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Great post - 100% agree! Between great tests and git, it is much more manageable.
September 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Agreed! We were talking about this in the early 1990s. If you’ve heard of the SOLID class design principles, there were five more principles that focused more on dependencies. The Stable Dependency Principle was one of those!
September 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Working Man - Rush
September 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Saturday In The Park, Chicago
Lakeside Park, Rush
July 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Pat Benetar - hit me with your best shot.
July 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Cinderella Man - Rush
July 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
You’ve got pockets of blue in the bigger cities and a whole lot of red everywhere else. We’ve tried…
June 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
You Took the Words Right Out Of My Mouth- Meatloaf

Goodnight Kiss - Dream Theater
June 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
m.youtube.com/watch?v=4PdU.... Gotta keep on rolling!!
REO Speedwagon - Roll With the Changes (Black and White Version)
YouTube video by RSpwagonVEVO
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June 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
By the way, my new strategy is warp.dev. Completely and totally love writing code through it.
The Intelligent Terminal
Warp is the intelligent terminal with AI and your dev team's knowledge built-in. Available on MacOS, Windows and Linux.
warp.dev
June 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Rush
Dream Theater
Steely Dan
June 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The chances of him knowing anything about the story are minimal at best, either now or after.
June 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
So what was the problem??
June 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Potentially the worst song ever… We Built This City.
April 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
My favorite law of all time is the Law of Unintended Consequences!
April 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I took the reply fed it to ChatGPT, asking for any semantic content:

Great question — and the short answer is: very little.

Trump’s reply, as quoted, is a rambling, vague, and often contradictory statement. It lacks clear structure, concrete ideas, or a direct answer to the question.

And so on..
April 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Bat Out of Hell. I just realized that 20 years after hearing the song for the first time.
March 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I’m sure that’s part of it, but threats to themselves and family must play a big part.

If they’re that afraid, they should resign instead of capitulating. It’s the power they’re in love with.
March 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Keeping a population uneducated is a lot harder in the day of the internet. You can see news from around the world, learn about any topic you want, and with AI, you can have a lot of the more complicated things explained to you reasonably well most of the time.

Times are just different.
March 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM