Amitai Schleier

@schmonz@schmonz.com

Force multiplier.
Outcome improver.
Decision sharer.
Developer, leader, coach.
https://agilein3minut.es podcaster.
Musician.
Bad poet (award-winning).
Joined: Apr 05, 2017 (@octodon.social)
SelfHosted: Mar 30, 2025
Pronouns: he/they
Podcast: ✔ https://agilein3minut.es
Consultancy: ✔ https://latentagility.com
More: ✔ https://schmonz.com
Keyoxide: aspe:keyoxide.org:PAC6KHICU3QSHQZVPJCZFS7KIA
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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Strange: sporting events include the national anthem, of course they do, and we have a hard time listening to folks who that doesn’t thrill.


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/6869522

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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The smaller my time-slices get, the more I can’t afford to defer #refactoring. Unpaid debt charges interest on every little slice of time.


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/6860442

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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What I'm doing now: family, travel, code, maybe lining up a job. https://schmonz.com/now


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/6689312

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Next: parse requests a little, pick an SMTP verb to intercept, respond directly.

Nextnext: intercept the verb iff told to by a config file.


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/6659867

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Progress: C SMTP proxy reliably logs all I/O, dies when client or server dies, does not interfere at all (yet!). https://gist.github.com/schmonz/6d8da539a5a43e99d5ad5810cde05b22#file-qmail-fixsmtpio-c


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/6657564

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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"A near-perfect BSD project: #pkgsrc. I put it up there with OpenSSH and mandoc… significant value to other OSes."

https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/vbsdcon-2017-dexter/


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/6566475

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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@craigmaloney what sounds like the most fun right now? That's the one you'll get the most out of right now.


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/6553724

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Staying up "late" (™) writing man pages for software that might exist soon. As one does.


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/6531549

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Someone sent me this bespoke t-shirt. But who? #cottonmystery
https://octodon.social/media/hQVlv6qkOBHYgC8BSbU


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/6372737

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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I'm making good progress on several small new #C programs to extend my #SMTP service without modifying #qmail. https://schmonz.com/qmail/authutils #wip


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/6212369

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Behold, I hath learned stuff about pipes and select()! This SMTP proxy does what I want. Now to translate to DJB C: https://gist.github.com/schmonz/6d8da539a5a43e99d5ad5810cde05b22


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/6153139

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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I don't know how I'd define the threshold, but if too many people take too many of my ideas too seriously, I start wondering what I've done.


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/6094320

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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​
https://octodon.social/media/Ap0tSQdyPBv-d7lhCW8


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5850680

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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After drawing a picture, I may be close to having a program run itself as the child of some other program and proxy all of its I/O.

_May_.


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5795344

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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A boy and his Opa:
https://octodon.social/media/FCDkMHiiqTgoUz6mon0


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5749403

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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@slp@mstdn.io sounds like it'd be a step backward from your current functionality. But maybe worth seeing how it works? pkgsrc/mail/qmail-run makes it as easy as rc.d to play with (and then uninstall).


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5743421

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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@slp@mstdn.io Cool. Postfix, I presume? I'm working (slowly) toward getting qmail to do DKIM and other post-1998 stuff in reasonably elegant ways: https://schmonz.com/qmail


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5743206

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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What I learned from #agile2017, despite not having been there, and a brief happy personal update: https://schmonz.com/talk/20170821-agile-for-humans/ #agileforhumans


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5743112

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Today's programming recipe:

1. Start with found code that does more than I need
2. Simmer, reducing slowly
3. Just what I need — tasty!


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5708824

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Not sure how I managed to have listened to Mompou's Cançons i Danses for so many years and never got my own hands into them. Until now.


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5694996

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Month 3 (so far) in Taavi: http://fotos.dieschleier.de/taavi/month3


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5685896

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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@craigmaloney related: https://twitter.com/schmonz/status/795439932416360448


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5632898

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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@craigmaloney wakka wakka wakka!


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5632840

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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What's #BDD look like? We'd have to do it together. But once #3Amigos agree on examples, what's #Cucumber look like? https://schmonz.com/2017/08/17/torontoagile-august-2017-bdd-for-everyone/


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5604828

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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A baby and his Bubbe. https://octodon.social/media/H8X_0WNRoItgTtuzxqE


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5593757

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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One man's personal account of his town outwitting an unwanted rally. Just a few miles down the road from here. https://thelongestway.com/2017/04/08/i-dont-like-the-antifa/


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5574505

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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@dthompson I often have a similar feeling about pkgsrc -- as though it's harder to see precisely because it solves some problems so generically. And sometimes I wish I weren't so heavily invested in it so that I could more easily hop on the functional package management train.


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5543968

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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"🎵Regrets, I don't know what they are and can't count, and wouldn't know how to mention them anyway…🎶"
https://octodon.social/media/ginVY8rhIrP6nOxNdnE


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5508122

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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A year ago today: https://theschleiers.com/wedding


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5480413

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Implementing #TLS in 2017:

- Do what 3rd-party scanners claim is wise
- Discover interop problems by e.g. losing mail
- Run moar scanz?


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5398158

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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https://octodon.social/media/uIZ1e3lDVoRWWmkWuaI


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5359967

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Month 2 for Taavi: http://photos.theschleiers.com/taavi/month2/ https://octodon.social/media/BwIsvApUj0AoaPaf5oE


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5303301

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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@craigmaloney I really enjoyed my time at Pillar. If they're in commute range for you, take a look.


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5286112

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Dude. You seriously haven't posted the new pictures yet?
https://octodon.social/media/_pb42mnwOvFGsXy2JDk


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5265281

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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What I've been doing lately, programming-wise: https://schmonz.com/qmail


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5213188

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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What I'm doing now: https://schmonz.com/now https://octodon.social/media/wEXpGWeHc4BPxVeZXHM


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5211156

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Join me and the Toronto Agile Community online for "Behavior-Driven Development for Everyone", in 2 weeks!

More info + register: https://schmonz.com/talk/2017-tac/


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5110973

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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From the Schmarchives: an entire 3-against-8 conclusion from the mind of #Medtner and the hands of yours truly. http://d19bhbirxx14bg.cloudfront.net/medtner-38-8-schlair.mp3


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5059175

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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@cwebber also works for writing, editing, tricky coding


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/5001630

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Pleasantly surprised to encounter this appreciation of Medtner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WG-pxBXWfA

And then to hear myself playing in the background!


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/4971017

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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@craigmaloney nice! I used to go to the CHC in A2 when I was consulting in the area.


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/4937768

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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@craigmaloney if you're geographically where I think you are (near Semibug?) I can point you to some people I used to work with around there who love pairing and C and occasionally volunteer for stuff outside work hours


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/4935087

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Tried putting on the cadenza from Rach 3 for Taavi, who promptly spit up all the milk ever. That's my kid. I can barely handle it either.


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/4929839

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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echo השליירים.com >> /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts

echo השליירים.com:schmonz-schleier >> /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains

$ ln -s ~schmonz/.qmail-schleier-amitai ~schmonz/.qmail-schleier-אמיתי

/etc/rc.d/qmail restart

👍🇮🇱


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/4817430

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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I asked Taavi if my code needed more work. His gnomic response: https://octodon.social/media/UgLChOxxe1V-QPFBDlM


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/4719436

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Want to SMTP-reject messages by multiple criteria with #qmail without patch conflicts? Behold the rejectutils patch: https://schmonz.com/qmail/rejectutils/


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/4715392

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Current status: applying Wallas's "incubation" to some or other evidently difficult problem. https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/08/28/the-art-of-thought-graham-wallas-stages/ https://octodon.social/media/ViPBET2AGF5pG2AmP44


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/4613183

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Want to build #qmail as non-root, sans hardcoded IDs, to a staging area? Binary packages? Here's the destdir patch: https://schmonz.com/qmail/destdir/


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/4568468

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Me: sometimes, on the internet, a squirrel turns dramatically to the camera

Taavi: you mean like this?

Me: not bad, considering https://octodon.social/media/c2G0AYCHqj3GtOLLijc


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/4557743

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[?]Amitai Schleier »
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Thickening up nicely. https://octodon.social/media/n42lPZsyVT22Ipx8pUY


original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/4475900

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