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title: "Not dead"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/24/not-dead.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/24/not-dead.html"
published: "2004-12-24T16:28:00"
updated: "2004-12-24T16:28:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "No. I'm not dead. Just too busy to actually write anything. I'll have some news in the near future though."
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Not dead

By Roy Osherove December 24, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published December 24, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

No. I'm not dead. Just too busy to actually write anything. I'll have some news in the near future though.

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- Dec 27, 2004

    ### [The Regulator featured on Channel 9](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/27/the-regulator-featured-on-channel-9.html)

- Dec 27, 2004

    ### [Learning from Juval Lowy](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/27/learning-from-juval-lowy.html)

- Dec 19, 2004

    ### [Microsoft Vs. PC Technicians](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/19/microsoft-vs-pc-technicians.html)

- Dec 13, 2004

    ### [Where should I host my interview with Johanna Rothman?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/13/where-should-i-host-my-interview-with-johanna-rothman.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/