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

Unrested, wobbly, I wander downstairs. First dose of coffee in process, and what's on the radio? First of #Medtner's 3 "Hymnen an die Arbeit", Vor der Arbeit (Before Work).

A little on the nose, universe, but I accept and am duly energized.

https://youtu.be/MYVFoLCR_8A

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Our December presenter for the Jersey City Java User Group: @jbrains on how you can acquire #EvolutionaryDesign skills and apply them to your lasting benefit. Discussion will probably ensue. https://www.meetup.com/Jersey-City-Java-User-Group-JC-JUG/events/275046368/ #refactoring #tdd

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This month’s this-month-in-Patreon: less like an exhaustive cross-reference of open source commits, more like what I was thinking and what I did about it.

This month in Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/november-news-44670725

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Give yourself 75 minutes of joint attention to meet the Strangler application pattern. We’ll program together in a thoughtfully prepared codebase with no more than 5 other participants. Register for Monday or Friday: http://pubmob.com/offerings/amitaischleier-strangle-your-legacy-code/

#PubMob #MobProgramming #LegacyCode

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@liw I'm glad you made the change and glad you're still glad about it.

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Here's Ted M. Young's talk last night for the Jersey City #Java User Group. I learned stuff, and am not surprised about this in the least. https://youtu.be/4cyBW39asBQ

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This is tomorrow (!). You have

https://www.meetup.com/Jersey-City-Java-User-Group-JC-JUG/events/274098904/

@jitterted #Java #JUG #OOP #Refactoring #EvolutionaryDesign #XP

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People using #qmail have been carefully applying patches for _decades_ to get #STARTTLS, #AUTH, and other basics.

This will change.

How should notqmail be shaped so that modern features like these are easy to land? I've collected some thoughts: https://github.com/notqmail/notqmail/wiki/Designs

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Announcing our next JC-JUG meetup: on Nov 17, join us for "Stop Obsessing about Primitives" with Ted M. Young!

https://www.meetup.com/Jersey-City-Java-User-Group-JC-JUG/events/274098904/

When's the meetup, in your timezone? https://everytimezone.com/s/e2218f27

#Java #OO #XP

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October's schmonzery in review, because thinking about things that can and do improve makes me feel better: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43522110

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Despite our best attempts to save it, daylight is not impressed. Late afternoons with the big guy will look like this for a while, more or less.

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More web-hosting #refactoring: now with sniproxy, a smaller, simpler, more reliable reverse proxy. How I did it: https://schmonz.com/2016/09/11/refactorings-for-web-hosting/#comment-93a48e1cca2af3e1004a18b24341ec7b

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/105112050488826461

An early evening out.

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A boy and his moon.

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Looking forward to another easy, sensible server upgrade. https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.1.html #NetBSD

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/105072964771988071

Eine echte Haferkraft wäre mit 49% Vollaalen.

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Remember when meetups still happened in locations? 1 of 50 at today's #jcjug revival admitted to living in the NY area. (Not me.) Also the talk wasn't even about #Java.

But we did real good, because we got "More Smaller Steps" with @GeePawHill.

Watch: https://youtu.be/WYK4kbrmm84

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104990182400758596

In this month's Patreon report, I review my latest batch of work through the lens of "Making experiences": https://www.patreon.com/posts/42189761

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On Tuesday, _the_ @GeePawHill will present "More Smaller Steps" at the first meeting of the revived JC-JUG.

Nowhere near Jersey City? Not using #Java right now? Me neither! No matter!

You make a living dealing with change. This talk is about that.

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Jersey-City-Java-User-Group-JC-JUG/

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104954521132606746

Sunset’s getting earlier, fast.

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All of us on this call with the same virtual background, sorta pretending to be in the office together.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104914507853607759

My #pkgsrc build farm, running pkg_rolling-replace. #ci https://t.co/m8fqBrSZoN

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Last week, Xcode 12 shipped an ambitious new #clang default: implicit function declarations are compile errors.

This week, #pkgsrc (with 25k+ source packages of other people’s code) is trying to cut a stable quarterly release, #macos included.

Today: https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/commit/c7fbe1481619765a934c7eaae3b0139a900ed6dc

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Work with valuable code that doesn’t feel easy or safe to change? Me too.

Get to know Strangler, when to consider using the pattern, and what to watch out for. #TDD new features into real (infamous) #LegacyCode, without touching that code at all!

More: http://pubmob.com/offerings/amitaischleier-strangle-your-legacy-code/

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104902028948247597

For my parents' 50th anniversary, using the piano I grew up playing, I prepared a piano piece for them. #Medtner, of course. Here I am posting it, a year late and a € short: https://youtu.be/X40G_xdEMOM

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104886473661627533

@InternetKevin exactly that.

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@InternetKevin hard to compare apples to apples these days. One clear benefit is how safe I feel sending a kid to preschool here.

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@liw I think I’ve read something from you about that. I sure wish the current system weren’t such a great example of network effects.

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@liw someday it would be cool to just run a mail server, not develop one

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104868434836624167

Great moments in American expatitude: the surprise arrival of these, accompanied by coffee and time.

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@susannah I was not previously aware that this was one of the available butterfly situations

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Current butterfly situation

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Snappy new rule for developer tests:

Don’t mock what you don’t own, except insofar as you also do mock it, notwithstanding instances of the aforementioned in which unexpected changes in code you don’t own are defined to be within any arbitrary tolerance.

Tell everyone you know!

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104829965441895652

Oh, the places we’ll go…

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T at preschool. Me with Barenboim’s Chopin Nocturnes, @jb_kaffee, decent connection to my #pkgsrc platform farm in NY.

Returning to work next week after 4+ months: suddenly not just real, but also imaginable.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104828825378228436

Tonight’s post-rain sunset.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104779623398243783

Recent wanderings.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104774247121116529

In this month’s Patreon report, I’ve been up to more of my usual “Continuous, deliberate integration”: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40952031

#ci #pkgsrc #macos #netbsd #linux #rust #python #qmail

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104767372313993305

Man muss sofort entscheiden: Hajen oder Heyen?

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104752179252902186

Aber das enthält nur drei schlechte Geschichten!

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104732328984422726

We’re both learning German, damit.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104732099586393892

Current status: building not quite every version of gcc in #pkgsrc.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104717045819812017

In the other direction, a distant thunderstorm.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104694967215575111

Foreboding?

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104693899535697149

A twist! Upstream #Python can, as we might expect for such a popular combination, build teeny updates on #Linux just fine. It’s #pkgsrc that, in aiming for identical builds on dozens of platforms for 20k+ applications, created the need for yesterday’s patch.

It’s a worthy aim.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104693546307092656

More fun than I'm entitled to: persuading #Python to build correctly on #Linux with a slightly older Python already installed. This abstruse use case — which if you had to give a name, you might call "updating" — now works. Just use #pkgsrc.

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2020/08/14/msg218942.html

#EnormousCI

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104689660470348478

A lap desk in two parts.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104682035190933049

@lnxw37a2 almost the same thing!

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/104665045401168759

@lnxw37a2 Yep. He knows what it really means, but also he knows what else it sounds a whole lot like 🙂

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