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

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

- qmail.org
- netqmail.org
- lifewithqmail.org (history reconstituted from RCS via CVS)

All in #Git, mirrored to GitHub, managed by #ikiwiki.

https://notqmail.org/mirrors

(I intend in the fullness of time to package nosh, and to figure out what to do with djbwares -- possibly treat it as the new upstream for all its constituent packages. But @notqmail@social.notqmail.org is also in dire need of a fresh batch of my attention.)

My fault assuming the existence of a published 1.5 tarball meant it was fully cooked. (I also saw FreeBSD Ports using it, so my fault accepting social proof as sufficient, too.) But also it's generally troublesome for packagers when published tarballs change size/checksum/etc. in place. Better to not publish until the URL contents can be stable, and/or publish new changes under new URLs.

Also, I was surprised to see your build wanting to know how to generate its own binary package. I guess that's typical for Debian and others, but unusual for pkgsrc and I imagine other ports-style trees. No harm done, of course, but I've given pkgsrc that part of the job.

CC: @lukeshu@social.coop

Progress on getting shairport-sync cross-built, but not there yet.

I'd prefer #NetBSD: https://schmonz.com/2024/06/07/small-arms/

Staged latest shairport-sync for #pkgsrc. Builds on NetBSD, #macOS. Normally I'd commit, wait for evbearmv6hf-el binary package, forget.

Trying something new today: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/doc/HOWTO-use-crosscompile

- Less principled, coherent, systemic

- More expedient, forgetful, surprising

In short: even riskier.

If there were such a thing as expertise in managing software risks, you’d want that, right?!

#ExtremeProgramming

After — no, during! — I knew it was forever.

Today I paid my respects to the musician who made me a musician.

Alt...

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s gravesite

1. More coherent code is cheaper to change, sometimes by an order of magnitude

2. The average change reduces overall coherence

Economic constraints on augmented coding:

1. Same

2. Saaaaame

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

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

1. Technical breadth and depth
2. Proven delivery experience
3. Thoughtful communication and teaching
4. Bridge-building across roles, silos
5. Team culture and developer happiness
6. Respected industry voice

I asked if they were proud of their work; they were; I gave each a shiny nickel.

What are some other stereotypical shenanigans you might expect That Dad — who I now clearly am — to pull?

A new #blog post appears!

I built a native GCC 14.2.0 for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger PowerPC.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250329.html

#macos #macosx #tiger #powerpc #power #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #linux #solaris #illumos #gcc #llvm #clang #compiler #compilers #assembler #linker #toolchain #freesoftware #opensource #gnu

Onesday
Twosday
Threesday
Foursday
Fivesday
Sixday
Sevenday

Kinda almost. Also arguably superior.

https://schmonz.com/snac/schmonz/p/1743383240.739924

Added Webmention support for links (Markdown-style or direct) written in a post.

Added new command-line options for list maintenance.

Display custom emoji in more places (contributed by dandelions).

Mastodon API: fixed infinite scroll in many clients (thanks to cheeaun for giving me the clue), added /api/v1/accounts/.../lists endpoint (contributed by dandelions).

Email notifications can now be sent via libcurl SMTP instead of spawning the /usr/sbin/sendmail program. To use this new feature, some additional server configuration is needed, see snac(8) (contributed by shtrophic).

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces

Google Summer of Code 2025 NetBSD projects
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2025_welcome_contributors

Thanks, man. It's been 7 years and every day I do this I'm better off.

Experiences with #dreckly / #pkgsrc on obscure Unixes:

#UnixWare - bootstrap succeeded! Just needed a few simple fixes.
#OpenServer - see UnixWare.
#BSDOS - kernel panic during installation. Support incomplete.
#HPUX - kernel panic during installation.
#QNX - bootstrap success! No changes needed.
#Haiku - bootstrap failed due to open() behaviour. "Invalid argument".

If you have a shell on an #IRIX or #HPUX machine, please let me know!

Strong suspicion I could swap out #macOS for #Linux, do better with #Minecraft and most everything else, and not do much worse at macOS-specific stuff like #GarageBand and Messages under #OSXKVM (https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM).

Anyone done this, or something similar?

- Things always go as you, your teammates, and your customers expect, or
- Nobody cares about the costs when they don’t

:; jq -r '.id' < $(ag -l 'six thirty twelve meters' ~/sites/schmonz.com/snac/data/user/schmonz/public)
https://schmonz.com/snac/schmonz/p/1743383179.235112