Amitai Schleier

@schmonz@schmonz.com

Force multiplier.
Outcome improver.
Decision sharer.
Developer, leader, coach.
https://agilein3minut.es podcaster.
Musician.
Bad poet (award-winning).
JoinedApr 05, 2017 (@octodon.social)
SelfHostedMar 30, 2025
Pronounshe/they
Podcasthttps://agilein3minut.es
Consultancyhttps://latentagility.com
Morehttps://schmonz.com
Keyoxideaspe:keyoxide.org:PAC6KHICU3QSHQZVPJCZFS7KIA
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[?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
@schmonz@schmonz.com

Teammate on most recent team gave me this parting feedback: “I learned a ton, we got lots done, our team dynamics were awesome, and I’ve never felt this kind of team feeling before.”

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

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

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[?]iMil (iMil/iMil) » 🌐
@imil@bsd.network

Google Summer of Code 2025 NetBSD projects
blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc

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[?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
@schmonz@schmonz.com

In some American English dialects, Mary, merry, and marry have distinct pronunciations. I finally understand a use case for this.

“Mary our Mother”

Alt...“Mary our Mother”

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[?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
@schmonz@schmonz.com

A trick I call "the Hynie Half-Hour", because I learned it from Martin: first bit of productivity each day, if something's been annoying me, fix it. Or some of it. Timeboxed, of course.

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

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[?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
@schmonz@schmonz.com

@donaldegray@hachyderm.io @jasongorman@mastodon.cloud I’d love to get back to that sometime soon.

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    [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @korreckj328@mastodon.social woof. I may still give it a whirl but with more sensible expectations (thanks!)

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      [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
      @schmonz@schmonz.com

      @korreckj328@mastodon.social hmm, I thought I saw GPU passthrough possibilities.

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        [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
        @schmonz@schmonz.com

        @xenotrope@bsd.network yes! Did this with my resume and then rolled it into my website (also in git) as though that’s always how I’d been managing it. Also https://github.com/schmonz/netbsd-mac68k-without-macos had me taking ancient mailing list posts and archive.org links and turning them into a git repo in case someone someday (not me) can more easily make use of the result.

          [?]nia » 🌐
          @washbear@mastodon.sdf.org

          Experiences with / on obscure Unixes:

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

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

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            [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
            @schmonz@schmonz.com

            Kiddo’s 2017 MacBook Air struggling under the load.

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

            Anyone done this, or something similar?

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              [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
              @schmonz@schmonz.com

              @gdinwiddie@mastodon.social friendly amendment: s/You’re never/Nobody’s ever/

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                [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                @schmonz@schmonz.com

                TDD is waste if

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

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                [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                @schmonz@schmonz.com

                @ska@treehouse.systems d’awww (guess I haven’t been too salty lately)

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                  [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                  @schmonz@schmonz.com

                  @RonJeffries@mastodon.social My toots are now files in the filesystem, so I can find one from whenever ago by recursively searching (and then pulling out the JSON field I care about).

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                    [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                    @schmonz@schmonz.com

                    @RonJeffries@mastodon.social And now I have just coincidentally learned about "gron" (https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron), which certainly will make this sort of task easier and maybily was named with you in mind?

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                      [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                      @schmonz@schmonz.com

                      my Fediverse microblog with means being able to do this kind of thing:

                      :; 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

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                        [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                        @schmonz@schmonz.com

                        Just before there was more than one kid. What a time that was for everyone, and also for us.

                        https://schmonz.com/snac/schmonz/p/1743383179.235112

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                        [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                        @schmonz@schmonz.com

                        Got here (mostly) by train. But am not in the Netherlands.

                        VIA PORT ROTTERDAM

                        Alt...VIA PORT ROTTERDAM

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                        [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                        @schmonz@schmonz.com

                        @gdinwiddie@mastodon.social same quibble from me. What is there to teach besides what people have somehow already figured out? Teaching isn’t everything. But mainly I took this as a reminder that it’s not nothing, either.

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                          [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                          @schmonz@schmonz.com

                          Worth a shot.

                          "In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught." -Baba Dioum

                          Alt..."In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught." -Baba Dioum

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                          [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                          @schmonz@schmonz.com

                          Do you know your way around the API? I'd love to add support for it in Greencently, my tiny extension. How you can help: https://github.com/schmonz/junit-greencently/issues/29

                          (if you'd like to)

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                            [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                            @schmonz@schmonz.com

                            Likewise for -- if you know its API, let's support it in Greencently.

                            What's Greencently, you very reasonably want to know? https://github.com/schmonz/junit-greencently

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                              [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                              @schmonz@schmonz.com

                              When making an enhancement to the experience of running automated tests, a cool thing to have for it would be automated tests.

                              A start: https://github.com/schmonz/junit-greencently/commit/99bd02f4757923faa1fcc12e103a9e967fabdd19

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                                [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                Struggling with JUnit 4 integration led me to an insight: for my purposes, test frameworks are the wrong extension point.

                                https://github.com/schmonz/junit-greencently/issues/4#issuecomment-2810303244

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                                  [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                  @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                  Some people I know and love could be playing together if I ran a server for them. I'm happy to do that, provided I can approximately never again pay attention to it.

                                  Let's see how this setup pans out: https://schmonz.com/2025/04/15/sensible-basic-minecraft-hosting/


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                                    [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                    @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                    אילו האָט זי האָט זי אַן אָריגינעלער ליד וואָס נײַ איז

                                    דיינו

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                                    [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                    @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                    Stayed up slightly irresponsibly late programming. Ah, the simple joys.

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                                    [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                    @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                    Questions to ask a design:

                                    Does this inhibit actions we think we don't want taken?

                                    Does it afford actions we think we do?

                                    Will this inhibit or afford an action to change what we inhibit or afford?

                                    How will we find out whether we ought to change what we inhibit or afford?

                                    [?]JUnit Team 💙💛 » 🌐
                                    @junit@fosstodon.org

                                    5.12.2 is released!

                                    🐞 Fix regression when using CleanupMode.ON_SUCCESS

                                    junit.org/junit5/docs/5.12.2/r

                                      [?]Marc Philipp » 🌐
                                      @marcphilipp@chaos.social

                                      ✨ New blog post: "STF Milestone 3: Release verification and automation"

                                      A major goal of the @sovtechfund is to help projects become more sustainable and decrease their truck factor. For , one activity in desperate need of improvement in this area was performing a release. Prior to this milestone, all JUnit releases of the past years had been performed from my local computer. It was high time to change that!

                                      marcphilipp.de/blog/2025/04/01

                                      screenshot of GitHub Actions workflow chart

                                      Alt...screenshot of GitHub Actions workflow chart

                                        [?]Dr. Brian Callahan » 🌐
                                        @bcallah@bsd.network

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                                        [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                        @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                        This is awesome. Do you have more Tiger shenanigans planned?

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                                          [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                          @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                          @Brodyberg@mastodon.social planned spikes are less, shall we say, spiky

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                                            [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                            @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                            Spike, n.: Intentional, constrained FA so as to hurt less when FO.

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                                            [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                            @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                            OH: Whatever needs to be done, I find a way to... delegate it.

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                                            [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                            @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                            @mrgtwentythree@mastodon.sdf.org @schmonz Yours is more fun

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                                              [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                              @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                              Continuous Disintegration, n.: a development workflow wherein feedback for any change from any contributor is delayed by design.

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                                              [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                              @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                              @Profpatsch@mastodon.xyz :whoa-keanu: that is clever. I'm running on a fixed-price VPS, though, so no harm leaving the real thing up.

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                                                [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                                @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                                Oooh, execline, of course! Perfect for purpose. Someone on IRC sent me their old execline run script that also sets up a named pipe so I can send other one-off commands to the server when needed.

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                                                  [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                                  @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                                  Anyone running a server under process supervision? Interested in how you stop cleanly. My first pass is a wrapper for the usual signals that writes "/stop\n" to the server: https://gist.github.com/schmonz/788a08fe72ea4978d47fe664ea8cc06d

                                                  What have I missed?

                                                  Also, how often might I need to send other server commands?

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                                                    [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                                    @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                                    Good morning

                                                    Water drops on purple flowers

                                                    Alt...Water drops on purple flowers

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                                                    [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                                    @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                                    This week on our block

                                                    Light and shadow

                                                    Alt...Light and shadow

                                                    Rain

                                                    Alt...Rain

                                                    Fog

                                                    Alt...Fog

                                                    Texture

                                                    Alt...Texture

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                                                    [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                                    @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                                    This guy, how do I explain? Cognitively and care-fully simpatico, so many shared people and experiences, my once and with luck also future daily partner. That’s a bit of @msilpala@qoto.org Great to see and squeeze you today, my friend.

                                                    Markus and Amitai in Central Park

                                                    Alt...Markus and Amitai in Central Park

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                                                      [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
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                                                      [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                                      @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                                      @maaretp@mas.to My career shot upward after I graduated at 30. Some of that feels weird, as you say, but outweighed by my pride in having aimed and succeeded.

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                                                        [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                                        @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                                        @ska@treehouse.systems Computer doesn’t need it, that’s for sure. This pattern arose from having seen too many shell scripts where the humans forgot they’re allowed to want it, and maybe also don’t write enough shell to remember how.

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                                                          [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                                          @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                                          Free idea: try this template for your next shell script. What do you notice?

                                                          #!/bin/sh
                                                          set -e

                                                          main() {
                                                          :
                                                          }

                                                          main "$@"
                                                          exit $?

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                                                          [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                                          @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                                          Coming soon to Maven Central, com.schmonz:junit-greencently:20250402171221.0.0-g7a4aa00-14225507806-1:

                                                          - Also set status when not complete or green (tx Ron)
                                                          - Setup-free .gitignore (tx Llewellyn)
                                                          - Refactorings (tx Llewellyn, Petar)
                                                          - TrunkVer (tx Raimo & Chris)


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                                                            [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                                            @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                                            @BarneyDellar@mastodon.scot Yes! At some point it'll happen. Wish I could invite you and yours for home-cooked dinner, but our home is perhaps strategically poorly located

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                                                              [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
                                                              @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                                              @ska@treehouse.systems you've always been the most capable among us

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