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

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

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[?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
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OH: Whatever needs to be done, I find a way to... delegate it.

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[?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
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@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 » 🌐
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    @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 » 🌐
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      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 » 🌐
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          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 » 🌐
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          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 » 🌐
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            @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 » 🌐
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              @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 » 🌐
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                  @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 » 🌐
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                    @ska@treehouse.systems you've always been the most capable among us

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                      [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
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                      Consulting for many years is exactly like consultants' opinions: full of trade-offs. You get better at what you practice and worse at what you don't.

                      When I was a consultant, I chose to get rusty with technologies rather than with team skills — and I'd choose the same a million more times.

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                      [?]Parade du Grotesque 💀 » 🌐
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                      All right, pkgsrc 2025Q1 has just been announced on the mailing lists.

                      It's not even on pkgsrc.org yet! 😉

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                        [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
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                        @gdinwiddie@mastodon.social I seem to have a general preference for this mandatory sort of option. Also I much prefer the failure modes of self-hosting, especially since I opted out (many years ago) of hardware being my problem.

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                          [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
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                          @gdinwiddie@mastodon.social Yes! Very excited about it, now that it's done, including a decent-enough migration of my posts.

                          (Before that, I was nervous I wouldn't get it done before the old instance goes offline in a few days: https://octodon.social/@CobaltVelvet/112897672123037837)

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                            [?]Amitai Schleier » 🌐
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                            I've moved from @schmonz@octodon.social. Follow me here if you're not already automatically doing so.

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