Amitai Schleier (@schmonz@schmonz.com)

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Amitai Schleier » 2025-06-28
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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 » 2017-12-27
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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

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99247397382118612

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-12-27
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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.

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

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-12-27
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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.

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99246787424388405

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-12-27
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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

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99246590359616634

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-12-25
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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!
https://octodon.social/media/4G_Ow3hPjIa4EDT0XUw

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99236611585827820

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-12-18
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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.

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

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-12-10
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Nach Hamburg über Hannover!

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99150212877590536

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-12-08
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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.

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

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-12-07
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Six months. Sassy.
https://octodon.social/media/-Pu3WwIe9dSYgvlPIGY

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99132428624881223

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-12-04
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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.
https://octodon.social/media/8uYkAzQ3aHHqrbnd8fE

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99113580402975920

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-11-30
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Taavi’s face is not a square, but he can produce a decent approximation.
https://octodon.social/media/dMkaO_GlARBSJhpMrHU

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99094999627221956

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-11-29
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Taavi with his Nana.
https://octodon.social/media/MLyp8Wx9b7ibTVVvTks

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99090226951034843

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-11-26
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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

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99069236747180774

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-11-11
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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.

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/98983039252352505

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-10-31
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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.

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/98926135780483349

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-10-28
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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

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/98907572337660291

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-10-08
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Alternate caption: “Zaphod Babybrooks”

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/7357359

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-10-08
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A 4-month old grows artistically in Brooklyn.
https://octodon.social/media/zz0Fpwt2-sUopyVk0qY

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

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-10-04
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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 🙂

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

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-10-03
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Well this was a satisfying commit: https://github.com/schmonz/qmail/commit/8d12a5c276628c1f80981402c0350b2e2330e32d

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/7151630

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-10-02
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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

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

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-10-02
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Out and about, pokin’ around Hoboken.
https://octodon.social/media/Xa5p0UUZsr5QQEdTxKY

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

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-09-29
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I'll be spending Yom Kippur writing tests for code I just wrote and thinking about who I've wronged.

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

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-09-28
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Taavi has entered the squawking phase, as babies traditionally do, to summon birds and (if at all possible) dinosaurs.

[audio elided]

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

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-09-28
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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

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/6982988

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-09-25
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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 » 2017-09-24
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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 » 2017-09-19
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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 » 2017-09-18
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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 » 2017-09-18
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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 » 2017-09-16
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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 » 2017-09-15
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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 » 2017-09-15
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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 » 2017-09-10
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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 » 2017-09-05
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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 » 2017-09-04
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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 » 2017-09-01
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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 » 2017-08-25
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https://octodon.social/media/Ap0tSQdyPBv-d7lhCW8

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

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-08-23
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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 » 2017-08-22
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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 » 2017-08-22
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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 » 2017-08-22
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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 » 2017-08-22
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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 » 2017-08-21
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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 » 2017-08-20
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