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

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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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99270793565979839

[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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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99263420798177499

"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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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/99258257843374905

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Taavi’s face is not a square, but he can produce a decent approximation.
https://octodon.social/media/dMkaO_GlARBSJhpMrHU

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

What I'm doing now: family, travel, code, maybe lining up a job. https://schmonz.com/now

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

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

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

"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/

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

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

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

Staying up "late" (™) writing man pages for software that might exist soon. As one does.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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https://octodon.social/media/Ap0tSQdyPBv-d7lhCW8

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

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_.

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

A boy and his Opa:
https://octodon.social/media/FCDkMHiiqTgoUz6mon0

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

@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).

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

@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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

Month 3 (so far) in Taavi: http://fotos.dieschleier.de/taavi/month3

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