It’s that time of evening routine where Taavi pounds a Mountain Dew and turns into a rock climber. Here he is descending from a long lateral traverse.
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@Zoonie thank you! we are very lucky.

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Recent status:
https://octodon.social/media/ntj_1SGbyPPxYurJIvE

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99723345764547391

Bound for Colorado Springs via Orange County, because the flight to Orange County is probably actually leaving today.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99722276092086287

Taavi at 9 months: questioning but also skeptical.
https://octodon.social/media/q7SaJQsjtZkdLb86Ml4

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Looking backward: I've been committing to #pkgsrc slow and steady since 2001. https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/graphs/contributors

Looking forward: #pkgsrcCon returns to Berlin this July. http://pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2018/

Also this summer: I'm available to consult in Germany (and nearby)! https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99495383054075683

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Attempted dictionary attack. Thwarted, for now.
https://octodon.social/media/0R9bRp3HUlrg6Bb2E0I

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99531566866187734

Yesterday Taavi said “Dad” for the first time, which was pretty cool because I was holding him while he said it across the room to his mom.

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@liw I'm a (tertiary at best) maintainer too, as it happens. But haven't been able to contribute much lately, and don't have Debian privileges in any case.

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@liw congratulations on the new thing! Do I understand correctly that OpenID Connect could make Qvisqve useful as an identity provider for ikiwiki?

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99496562761868747

@zordon@mastodon.social thanks 😃

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@liw Tack!

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[Please share!]

Big news: it's my birthday, and I've gone indie! Available to consult, coach, and train, centered on your code in your team space. Primarily NY metro area. More info: https://schmonz.com/2018/02/09/back-to-work-maybe-with-you/

#Agile #XP #Scrum #TDD #CI #Dev #DevOps #ModernAgile #Coaching

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Fractal frost on front porch. Producing podcast episode from easy chair. Fruity Salvadoran coffee in hand, dog at feet. Next: send invoice. Good to be home.
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Baby’s first NJ Turnpike rest stop.

Appropriate, because: https://schmonz.com/2007/11/16/explosion-at-the-poem-factory/
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About time to pack up and head home with this guy.
https://octodon.social/media/GpDhz0PmIdUlcaa3VQo

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99422357335915441

Current status:

- Second week back at work is almost over

- Been coming "home" every night to a child who has apparently learned to imitate an old man running for office

- Almost but not quite ready for us to go home

https://octodon.social/media/ooDCzdUBNBBXJFoTaOg

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I'll consider it. https://octodon.social/media/SlJIdp3X6hcx2SjqWgg

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Slides and retro findings from last night's "#BDD For Everyone": https://schmonz.com/2018/01/18/agilecoachingdc-january-2018-bdd-for-everyone/

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In the Washington, D.C. area? Join me next week at the #Agile #Coaching DC meetup and participate in my "#BDD for Everyone" exercise! Details: https://schmonz.com/talk/2018-agile-coaching-dc/

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Just played a German game called “Activity.” It was named accurately insofar as by playing it we were engaged in activity. It was named inaccurately insofar as it included more than one type of activity.

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[please share freely!]

Help me find a summer internship in Cleveland, NYC, or Chicago for a sophomore in Computer Science at CWRU?

It’s for the daughter of one of the best teachers I ever had. So it would be especially satisfying to contribute to her learning in some small way.

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"The Agile Fluency Model offers an alternative to some false dichotomies." https://schmonz.com/2017/12/29/training-agile-fluency-game/

#AgileFluency #agile #tdd #refactoring #congruence

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@MightyBigCar also, ha ha autocorrect. “Naked” meant to be “named”

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@MightyBigCar that’s a very reasonable reading. I’ve tried to address that in the web page where these graphs might appear, which I’d better just link to already: https://schmonz.com/qmail/acceptutils

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@MightyBigCar ha! Indeed. Left is old, right is new hotness. In context, they’ll each appear in a naked section of the page with more details.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99246993259530737

We sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" (with harmony!) to Taavi, bib on, awaiting his first taste of mixed apple-banana. On "braaaave", as if on cue, he joined in with his loudest shriek. He got what he wanted, but not until we eventually stopped laughing.

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I believe “after” is better, and these before-and-after diagrams are intended to help you agree. Are they succeeding? What might help more? https://octodon.social/media/gB9mPczQad9rQbK6-ok https://octodon.social/media/S-81mM_N1LCxe7ORy1U

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Thanks to this very thoughtful Christmukkah gift from my in-laws, Taavi just heard my favorite Medtner sonata for the first time.

You can hear me playing it in recital here: https://schmonz.com/2007/12/06/medtner-sonata-reminiscenza-op-38-no-1/

Merry Christmukkah!
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This afternoon, I put Taavi down for a change. He said “dada.” I said “dada?” He laughed.

This evening, Taavi started making long sequences of ba-ga-da sounds. And crawled one body length, then turned around and crawled back.

We are in good trouble.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99197746973510204

Nach Hamburg über Hannover!

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Taavi needed help to nap. Playing Brahms Op. 10 No. 4 calmed him, but that’s it. That’s my son. I can’t fall asleep to great music either.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99140518321461781

Six months. Sassy.
https://octodon.social/media/-Pu3WwIe9dSYgvlPIGY

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Today’s supermoon marks the sixth lunar month of our super Taavi Lua, who is hard at work on talking and crawling.
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Taavi’s face is not a square, but he can produce a decent approximation.
https://octodon.social/media/dMkaO_GlARBSJhpMrHU

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Taavi with his Nana.
https://octodon.social/media/MLyp8Wx9b7ibTVVvTks

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New favorite thing: put my ear to Taavi’s chest. He gets to grab my beard and hair; I get approximately this view, plus a derpy grin.
https://octodon.social/media/iZUMoA3ZNNopW9Rf2o0

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Taavi’s first conscious experience of a Residence Inn. Perks of his previous visits: stay free, check out late, recall warm fuzzy memories.

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Today: appreciation, pairing, Taavi floor time, nap, first swim lesson, family walk in town, dog walk in neighborhood, baby nap on shoulder.

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Soon this apparatus will be less useful for sitting and more useful as a temporary jail with a crinkly-sounding thing. https://octodon.social/media/B3CNVs5m4unxGC9XcJ0

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Alternate caption: “Zaphod Babybrooks”

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A 4-month old grows artistically in Brooklyn.
https://octodon.social/media/zz0Fpwt2-sUopyVk0qY

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/7356986

Daily averages over 45 days:

- 25 lines of C
- 1/45th email sent via my SMTP AUTH code

Seems small, but a few minutes ago it was 0 🙂

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/7192615

Well this was a satisfying commit: https://github.com/schmonz/qmail/commit/8d12a5c276628c1f80981402c0350b2e2330e32d

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Ophelia, bereft, died "incapable of her own distress." May we be capable of ours. Try Medtner's "Ophelia's Song": https://schmonz.com/2007/02/12/medtner-skazka-in-f-minor-ophelias-song-op-14-no-1/20070209-medtner-skazka-f-minor-14-1.mp3

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/7143281

Out and about, pokin’ around Hoboken.
https://octodon.social/media/Xa5p0UUZsr5QQEdTxKY

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/7116135

I'll be spending Yom Kippur writing tests for code I just wrote and thinking about who I've wronged.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/7039759

Taavi has entered the squawking phase, as babies traditionally do, to summon birds and (if at all possible) dinosaurs.

[audio elided]

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/7012658

My SMTP proxy now has all the behaviors I want. When they're controlled by a config file, it'll be time to ship. https://gist.github.com/schmonz/6d8da539a5a43e99d5ad5810cde05b22#file-qmail-fixsmtpio-c

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