If your business makes software, I might be good for your business.

https://schmonz.com/snac/schmonz/p/1750949585.435936

I’m so proud! In math class, the teacher told the kids they could have notes for the exam on one side of a single piece of paper. My 16yo twisted and taped his paper into a Möbius strip!

Apparently the teacher was dumbfounded… and then allowed it!

(I mean, how could he not? It was *math* class!)

It’s been over three months since I went to the gym. Between starting a new job, commute times, holidays, and winter, I haven’t mustered the willpower. But today I’m back, and I’ve lost a ton of progress.

But I’d forgotten how good it feels. I think it was a mistake to led that feeling fade from my memory.

#workout #gym

(& Medtner!)

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Haydn, Zappa, Wolpe, Oswald, Medtner, Rachmaninoff

The Leading Technical Change Seminar is *back*.

6 Attendees
4 2-hour Sessions
1 topic

Real Change In The Real World

April 6,7, 9 & 10, 1-3pm EST

LTC is a true seminar, led by me. Each attendee brings their own change challenges, and we tackle them all, as a group.

An alumnus writes: "A masterclass in leading without authority. Intensely practical and focused on outcomes, you leave with a toolkit that you can start applying immediately."

Grab your seat today!

https://www.geepawhill.org/courses/leading-technical-change/

The first release candidate of 11.0 is available! Get it here:

https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/latest/

@glook @schmonz That's cheating 😂

What are all the cool kids use today to have an e-mail with their own domain name, but without using Google Workspaces? I haven't done that in so long.

Edit: I settled on mailbox.org for now. The setup using my own domain was as easy as I expected.

I blogged about migrating my MX (email) from self-hosted #Qmail, with Gmail as the front-end, to @fastmail: https://www.rainskit.com/blog/migrating-from-qmail-and-gmail-to-fastmail/

Many #yaks were shaved in this adventure, and I'm much less visible to Google, now!

The post is long, mostly because I needed to eulogize the end of 25 years of email self-hosting. But it might be interesting to some of you. And it might be helpful if you are on Qmail and want to stop self hosting.

Booted 8’s ISO without any special grub flags. (On this box, whoa.) Easy repair.

These were my final big questions. I now trust this system with my data. Blog post soon.

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Please reboot the system, they said

1. Get fastfetch and all of its dependencies building on Mac OS 10.9 #MavericksForever

2. Include pkgsrc in the package report

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fastfetch output

That’s your clue: refactor first.

(Special case of the general KFB wisdom “First make the change easy, then make the easy change.”)

#Refactoring #ExtremeProgramming #XPLives

Hit up your network before applying. If you’re reading this, I’m in your network.

I've updated my binary package repository for PowerPC Mac OS X. New and updated packages for curl, git, python 3.10, apache, nginx, openssh, rsync, yt-dlp, vim, zsh, tmux, and many more.

https://netbsd.org/~nia/tigersrc/

#dreckly #pkgsrc #powerpc #macos #retrocomputing #hashtags

But if a supposed #ExtremeProgramming expert doesn’t grok this, such remarkably deep failure of understanding indicates ignorance AND profound obstinacy.

Here's my setup: https://schmonz.com/2025/11/12/small-macs/

(Writing... muscles... loosening.)

#macos #linux #netbsd

Hey #NetBSD 🚩community! There's been discussion over the years about whether the NetBSD project should have its own unique mascot (separate from the general BSD Beastie).

I outlined a proposal for one back in 2021, including some concepts:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2021/01/21/msg000828.html

What's the general feeling today? #RunBSD #OpenSource #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD

I blogged about the system we have used for years to teach our #kids about saving #money: https://www.rainskit.com/blog/kids_money/

I've been very happy with it, and maybe this system will be useful for you, too!

If there is one thing I could pass along to folk:

Your career will outlive every bad decision that someone in upper management will make. Your role is to learn what you can, not just the task or tech, but what to watch out for next time. Help the folk who will get caught up in the next bad decision, because they will help when you get hit.

And if you are in the position to make bad decisions, have a failure plan that protects your team. It’s easy to get someone to follow you once.

Getting them to follow you the second time makes you a leader.

You should know #pkgsrc 2025Q3 was released yesterday:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2025/09/25/msg042016.html

#netbsd

Today I tagged #pkgsrc 2025Q3. Announcement forthcoming.

For the same reasons, some published authors are better at describing than at enacting.

Maybe an author really knows, in context, under stress, how to do the thing. Maybe not.

#ExtremeProgramming