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 » 2017-08-16
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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 » 2017-08-15
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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 » 2017-08-14
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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 » 2017-08-13
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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 » 2017-08-10
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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 » 2017-08-09
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https://octodon.social/media/uIZ1e3lDVoRWWmkWuaI

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

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-08-07
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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 » 2017-08-07
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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 » 2017-08-06
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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 » 2017-08-04
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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 » 2017-08-04
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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 » 2017-08-01
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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 » 2017-07-30
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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 » 2017-07-28
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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 » 2017-07-28
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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 » 2017-07-27
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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 » 2017-07-27
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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 » 2017-07-26
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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 » 2017-07-23
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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 » 2017-07-20
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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 » 2017-07-20
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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 » 2017-07-17
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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 » 2017-07-16
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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 » 2017-07-15
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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 » 2017-07-13
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Thickening up nicely. https://octodon.social/media/n42lPZsyVT22Ipx8pUY

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

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-07-09
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Taavi is disappointed in me, or you, or whatever. https://octodon.social/media/AH-l-heouT7a-TOvdTU

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/4336258

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-07-06
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Week 4 in Taavi, including meeting cousins and an epic face-making sequence: http://photos.theschleiers.com/taavi/week4/

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/4196948

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-06-29
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Two bum WebDAV servers.
One good one.
Two reverse proxies.
The return of an old nemesis.

Also, baby photos.

https://schmonz.com/2017/06/29/how-to-share-photos/ #taavi

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/3962142

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-06-18
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For Father's Day I got this crab impersonator. Fuzzy, slightly used, variety of unconvincing crab facial expressions. 14/10 would do again. https://octodon.social/media/jeBAug3c-ZX7hslANYU

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/3433074

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-06-14
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@wrongroot תודה!

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/3223328

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-06-14
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@craigmaloney thank you 🙂

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/3223296

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-06-14
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Taavi, here's world. World, here's Taavi: https://schmonz.com/2017/06/14/taavi-lua-schleier/

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/3211679

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-06-10
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Not half bad. https://octodon.social/media/7FqCx3Rijcw9PVHJRok

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/3062776

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-06-05
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Trout special tonight. Comes with stuff. How specific you wanna be? https://octodon.social/media/6rFr9eSdZCyL97gR2p8

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/2829376

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-05-31
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On the latest #agilein3minutes, Lanette Creamer asks: When "Agile" implies action, why is there still so much talk? https://agilein3minut.es/36

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/2660778

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-05-31
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@craigmaloney oof. also trains and fire sirens (I live close to both)

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/2639405

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-05-31
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My noisy neighbors do not seem to appreciate the impact of their jabby jocularity on my need to record podcast intro/outro. #agilein3minutes

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/2639116

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-05-31
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Tonight's relaxation exercise: a little #refactoring in #Python that may help me solve a problem. https://github.com/schmonz/pkgsrc-pymsgauth/commit/46bb0909c8e73cfd5cb6c7023c0f05b3dffcfe33

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/2638871

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-05-25
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"If the conference doesn't have a Code of Conduct, some of the folks we could've learned the most from aren’t here." https://schmonz.com/2017/05/24/codes-of-conduct-in-3-minutes/

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/2441416

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-05-24
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Do you get listened to? Then you have currency.

Here's a cheap investment you can make: https://schmonz.com/2017/05/24/codes-of-conduct-in-3-minutes/

#agile #xp #tdd #bdd #coc

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/2408181

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-05-22
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Announcing the QMAILREMOTE patch, for configurably wrapping qmail-remote(8) (e.g., for DKIM signing): https://schmonz.com/2017/05/22/qmail-outbound-dkim/ #qmail #really

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/2322571

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-05-19
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"#TDD & #MobProgramming for Non-Programmers" goes #Twitch!

Watch us solve FizzBuzz together: https://schmonz.com/talk/20170519-agileuprising-tdd-mob/

#XP #Agile #Dev

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/2215542

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-05-17
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0. Free time
1. Trainer
2. Hot sun
3. Hills
4. Water
5. Dog
6. Porch
7. This status update
8. Nothing whatsoever
9. ...?
10. Profit!

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/2141036

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-05-09
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As a software development coach, my job is not primarily to help you code or ship.

My job is primarily to love you.

A pretty good gig. 🙂

https://schmonz.com/talk/20170508-agile-for-humans/

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/1827637

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-05-05
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@pavsaund her name's Diane and she'll be speaking on Empathy Mapping. Tell her I sent you!

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/1663772

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-05-05
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@pavsaund someday! Talking to an NDC Oslo speaker right now 🙂

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/1663062

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-05-05
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If you came to "The Best Team Anywhere", your experience went into these slides -- thank you! https://schmonz.com/2017/05/05/aab-2017-best-team-anywhere/ #aab17

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/1662230

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-05-01
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Hey #basd2017, our "Care and Feeding of T-Shaped People" slides —or, should I say, YOUR slides — are up! https://schmonz.com/2017/05/01/big-apple-scrum-day-2017/

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/1469194

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-04-30
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Agile Coach Camp 2017, so far: https://schmonz.com/2017/04/29/agile-coach-camp-2017/ #accus #agile #coaching #xp #tdd

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/1380104

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Amitai Schleier » 2017-04-25
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We already improvise every day! Developing our existing improv skills can pay off at work. https://schmonz.com/talk/20170424-agile-for-humans/ #agile #improv #coaching

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/1113814