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

"When I start, the problem or domain is not dear to me. But I'm a human person, I'm social, I'm a member of the ape family. Once I see why you care about something, I'll begin to care about it too." https://schmonz.com/talk/20191018-accidental-engineer/

#dev #coaching #tdd #ci #xp

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102984371195710473

SCENE: Getting kid ready for bed.

"Here's your Paw Patrol shirt," I say.

"Paw Pashirt," he says.

He looks off into the distance.

"That's a funny word," he continues.

My work here is done, folks.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102975220088785139

@joeyh @liw let’s be thankful that bread knives, as yet, can’t remember either

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102961786567208682

For my peeps in/near #NYC who care about #Agile and #Lean and #Scrum, what happens when your org needs more than one team? Maybe lots more than that?

I'm always looking for ideas, so I'll be participating in Gene Gendel's #LeSS class this Saturday. Join me: https://less.works/course-details/less-basics-brooklyn-1326

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102956843774807176

"It was never any sort of coherent plan, but it seems to be coming together anyway." https://schmonz.com/2019/10/11/now/

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102945871547958190

@cyetain jelly

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102944655012256452

Degenerate cases of this meetup include:

1) It's just me, and I get to start my day with some outstanding third-wave coffee

2) It's just me and you, and you get some free consulting

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102843299218946379

[Share widely, please!]

Based in southern NY or northern NJ? There's a new Meetup in town: Rockland Extreme-Agile-Lean.

Join me in a couple weeks for our first #LeanCoffee, then head to work with a new idea ready to try: https://www.meetup.com/Rockland-Extreme-Agile-Lean/events/265098931/

#ExtremeProgramming #Agile #Lean

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102843281312115016

Someone running notqmail on NetBSD/evbarm64 took the time to write: "I wanted to express my gratitude to schmonz for his remarkable work in patching, modernizing and cleaning up qmail, with particular regard for his acceptutils/rejectutils… very straightforward."

Day made 🙂

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102794179315342607

Curious what I'm up to, open-source-wise? Here are my latest commits (not counting branches) to #pkgsrc, #notqmail, and #ikiwiki: https://schmonz.com/commits

Curious at a much higher level of abstraction? Sign up for my mailing list: https://schmonz.com/2016/02/22/my-new-mailing-list

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102768870094768926

Been practicing this #Medtner: https://youtu.be/sLBWEeAFPRQ

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102759489514768955

@xenotrope enjoy!

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102743440750006667

notqmail 1.07 shipped two weeks ago. We immediately got to work on what will become 1.08.

Already merged: https://github.com/notqmail/notqmail/wiki/notqmail-1.08

Coming soon: https://github.com/notqmail/notqmail/wiki/Roadmap#108

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102735916083409296

If you’re still running #qmail, please

1. Update your systems to notqmail 1.07, released earlier this week
2. Let us know easy it was
3. Give us your thoughts about our roadmap

More info: https://schmonz.com/2019/08/20/announcing-notqmail/

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102678645542930449

Last day.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102674138780374074

Announcing the initial 1.07 release of notqmail, a community-driven fork of #qmail that begins where netqmail left off: https://notqmail.org/1.07

Themes for this release:

- Fix broken builds (FreeBSD, macOS)
- Make packaging easier

I'm proud to be one of several developers bringing this valuable #LegacyCode back to life. Here's my personal blog post telling this first chapter in the story of notqmail: https://schmonz.com/2019/08/20/announcing-notqmail/

#smtp #LegacyCodeRocks #c #dev #pkgsrc

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102650008056373519

@joeyh cannot un-imagine-hearing

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102613410108888838

In my triumphant(?) return to Developer on Fire:

- relearning how to learn from a kid

- relearning how to work w/an extraordinary teammate

- gaining self-awareness via unusual feedback

- White Dude’s Guide To Inclusion

- being more effective together

https://schmonz.com/talk/20190812-developer-on-fire/

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102605514792380600

How did I first get a clue about #coaching?

Mainly, dinnertime conversation with the primary author of "Is Female Visual Signaling to Male Song Socially Regulated in Brown‐headed Cowbirds?" and "Transitivity Types Predict Communicative Abilities in Infants at Risk of Autism".

Bibliography:

- 2014 cowbird paper (sadly paywalled): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eth.12341
- 2019 autism paper (out last week, full text available): https://www.exeley.com/journal_of_social_structure/doi/10.21307/joss-2019-009

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102601424261368653

My standing desk for the next couple weeks. Resolution and sharpness are decidedly non-Retina. Fine for an occasional hour, and therefore perfect.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102571393659003490

How did I address my performance fears and decide to play piano in recital in midtown Manhattan?

How does this relate to #LegacyCode, #TDD, #MobProgramming, and the rest of what I do professionally?

What does #Medtner's music sound like?

All this and more on Legacy Code Rocks!

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102526391781586113

Whenever I see @Andrea Goulet and M. Scott Ford at conferences, we always have mind-opening and actionable conversations. I hope my new guest spot on their #LegacyCodeRocks podcast, talking about definitions of #LegacyCode, does some of that for you.

https://schmonz.com/talk/20190729-legacy-code-rocks/

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102525505084375656

Well, I can check "started a project that made the front page of orange site for nerd news" off my bucket list.

Oops, I never put that on the list! Must have been an oversight.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102522276440458649

Would you personally benefit from an individualized session with an experienced, inquisitive, and empathetic conversation partner? Maybe you're facing a challenging situation at work, a learning opportunity in some code — or both.

Get in touch. https://latentagility.com

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102502722452575073

Would your org benefit from a rare combination of technical coaching and impactful conversations? (Take other people's word for it, not mine: https://latentagility.com/testimonials)

It's not too late to book me for Q4. Let's talk about what fits for you: https://latentagility.com

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102502683920344829

Greater Than Code is always a wide-ranging discussion with cross-disciplinary thinkers, so it was a lot of fun to highlight a few of the interconnections between things we think and other things we think. https://schmonz.com/talk/20190724-greater-than-code/

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102497832271852478

Say you've got #CentOS and want #qmail as your MTA, configured with sensible modern defaults. How long are you gonna need?

If you said "under five minutes", you're correct!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq6vu9T3vow #pkgsrc #devops

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102437418337714292

Listening to Scriabin, kid wanted to "see". Turned on the iTunes visualizer. Realized I might be creating a synesthete. Scriabin would have been pleased.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102435429921088938

Independence Day (US English), n.: an annual commemoration that tyranny is tolerable as long as we're the ones doing it (whether to others or to ourselves).

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102392001703817237

Key plot twists:

- Several individual developers have active forks
- None is the accepted logical successor
- Not all provide commit logs
- Some new code is good, some less so
- I've avoided forking, but have published patches

So, brownfield community design. How can we rejoin?

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102375000962184079

Seeking advice from happy open source projects.

We have: decades-old still-useful code whose Benevolent Dictator For Life abdicated (de facto) many years ago.

We want: to revive it as a community-driven open source project.

My initial thoughts: https://marc.info/?l=qmail&m=156208533222604&w=2

Help?

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102373881984187698

One of my favorite projects, pkgsrc, is about automating builds of over 20k third-party applications on two dozen Unix-like platforms. It's... ambitious. And remarkably successful.

What I’ve been up to lately: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pkgsrc-2019q2-28001236

#devops #macos #netbsd #linux #smartos

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102356924241292048

Life is boxes, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102192295029950395

Ever wondered whether a #CodingTour is something you want to do? Or you're pretty sure you want to, but need help making it real?

Reminder: I went on tour last summer (https://schmonz.com/2018/09/15/coding-tour-summer-2018-conclusion/) and am happy to help.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102179840712793760

I'm sad to say that active, skillful, empathetic listening remains a competitive advantage in IT, but happy to be taking advantage.

I'm sad to say the same is true in healthcare, but happy to share a brief podcast where my sister talks about her teaching: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-active-listening-improves-patient-clinician-experience/id1317557717?i=1000439286320

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102171233740910456

_You_ try seeing a dozen wreaths and explaining Memorial Day in words a toddler could understand without yourself feeling them as though for the first time. I'm tapped out.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102169002485376396

Sometime when I wasn't looking, https://agilein3minut.es crossed 60k (and 61k) downloads.

I'd love to hear: What's a favorite episode of yours, and how did it become dear to you?

And/or got a story about how Agile in 3 Minutes helped you change a situation for the better?

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102152092276483050

@craigmaloney was just reminiscing about an application with millions of records in SQLite. A network application. Read/write.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102112271403568911

Last night Craig Larman told us about #LeSS. I was the opening act: part discussion, part storytelling — all inspired by the time when I had worked at the company hosting the meetup: https://schmonz.com/2019/05/16/nyc-large-scale-scrum-may-2019/

#XP #TDD #agilein3minutes #scrum #agile #dev #pmot

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102112114566968307

@cyetain expand/expound a little?

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102100065583645394

This Thursday, NYC Large Scale Scrum and Morgan Stanley are hosting LeSS co-creator Craig Larman for a public meetup.

I'll be the opening act. Who knows, maybe there'll be some Agile in 3 Minutes?

Not too late to reserve your spot! https://schmonz.com/talk/2019-nyc-may/

#scrum #less #agile

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102089431863260910

@zordon@mastodon.social I forgot you have more than one handle! Been following along about the youngsters and work travels on the other one. Both aspects are going swimmingly over here. (Literally: been taking swim lessons.)

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102028257688276530

Slides, learnings, and reflections from #deliverAgile2019: https://schmonz.com/2019/05/01/deliveragile-2019-strangle-your-legacy-code/

Pssst: even if you weren't there, here's the coupon code for the #agilein3minutes book: https://leanpub.com/agilein3minutes/c/deliver19

(Delicious hashtag soup: #LegacyCode #XP #TDD #MobProgramming #Dev #Agile #Scrum)

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102027892567955795

Bound for Nashville (first time) and #deliverAgile (first or third, depending on your counting scheme). Hope to see you there! https://schmonz.com/talk/2019-deliveragile/

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/102005579983991346

@xenotrope heh. Looks cool. Do they do video? If so I’ll wanna watch.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/101990013504888610

@0xmrtn@infosec.exchange eep

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/101989449549873002

@xenotrope sweet, what’s your talk?

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/101989422941785768

What I'm Doing Now: https://schmonz.com/now

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