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

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

Faced with a problem, don’t just work to solve it. Instead, figure out what would have made it so easy that someone would have already solved it by now. Make it so. Then be the lucky someone.

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

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

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

(& 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.