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

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

The NetBSD VM experiment continues. Currently building WebKitGtk60 using pkgsrc-wip to see if I can continue developing Sunstone if and when I make the switch for real.

Overall I have to say NetBSD has come a long way from what I remember. In years past it really felt like it had lagged behind eg. FreeBSD. I'm not getting that impression now. The installer is really straightforward, you get X11 as part of the install, and Pkgin works just like you would expect a modern package manager to work on Linux. It's a little slower than Pacman from what I can tell, but it's in a VM so hard to say for sure.

It was also nice to see that zfs runs on NetBSD now.

NetBSD turns 33 this Sunday! 🚩

To celebrate 33 years of clean code, portability, and zero bloat, Challenging the rest of the fediverse to help hit this year's funding goals.

Also do drop a screenshot of your uptime, uname -a, or a pic of the weirdest hardware you've got running NetBSD right now. (RockPro64 NPF routers or Pi's hooked up to retro CRTs highly encouraged).

Throw some money at the developers keeping the real UNIX alive:

https://www.netbsd.org/donations/

#NetBSD #UNIX #RetroComputing #OpenSource #runbsd #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

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1. Make full use of my particular set of skills

AND (this is a big and)

2. Have their results be appreciated.

Here’s what I’ll see when I occasionally go to the office.

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NYC skyline

@schmonz recently shared a photo of the view from his new job, looking over the New York skyline.

Well, my new job is the heart of #Edinburgh’s New Town, famous for its Georgian architecture, views south to the Old Town and the castle, and north to the firth, and the hills of Fife.

Behold, the view from my office:

My 16yo made (and invented!) this! #origami

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A modular origami construction in pink, purple, and blue. A 12-pointed star embedded in a dodecahedron.

Its replacement: a 1968 Baldwin Model R Artist Series my parents found for an even better bargain. Thanks, new friend, for all the music to come.

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A couple ivories missing

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/

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.

On the other hand (the hand I often manage to continue on to), I was able to make the trip, am already booked for the next one, and can easily imagine it’ll go better.

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

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

#macos #linux #netbsd

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!