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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[?]Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 »
@deborahh@cosocial.ca

@schmonz I vouch for Amitai! 👍

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

    Just before there was more than one kid. What a time that was for everyone, and also for us.

    https://schmonz.com/snac/schmonz/p/1743383179.235112

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    [?]Misty »
    @misty@digipres.club

    @onfy Ohhh I get what you mean now. Hm

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

      Got here (mostly) by train. But am not in the Netherlands.

      VIA PORT ROTTERDAM

      Alt...VIA PORT ROTTERDAM

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

      @gdinwiddie@mastodon.social same quibble from me. What is there to teach besides what people have somehow already figured out? Teaching isn’t everything. But mainly I took this as a reminder that it’s not nothing, either.

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

        Worth a shot.

        "In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught." -Baba Dioum

        Alt..."In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught." -Baba Dioum

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

        Do you know your way around the API? I'd love to add support for it in Greencently, my tiny extension. How you can help: https://github.com/schmonz/junit-greencently/issues/29

        (if you'd like to)

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

          Likewise for -- if you know its API, let's support it in Greencently.

          What's Greencently, you very reasonably want to know? https://github.com/schmonz/junit-greencently

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

            When making an enhancement to the experience of running automated tests, a cool thing to have for it would be automated tests.

            A start: https://github.com/schmonz/junit-greencently/commit/99bd02f4757923faa1fcc12e103a9e967fabdd19

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

              Struggling with JUnit 4 integration led me to an insight: for my purposes, test frameworks are the wrong extension point.

              https://github.com/schmonz/junit-greencently/issues/4#issuecomment-2810303244

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

                Some people I know and love could be playing together if I ran a server for them. I'm happy to do that, provided I can approximately never again pay attention to it.

                Let's see how this setup pans out: https://schmonz.com/2025/04/15/sensible-basic-minecraft-hosting/


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

                  אילו האָט זי האָט זי אַן אָריגינעלער ליד וואָס נײַ איז

                  דיינו

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

                  Stayed up slightly irresponsibly late programming. Ah, the simple joys.

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

                  Questions to ask a design:

                  Does this inhibit actions we think we don't want taken?

                  Does it afford actions we think we do?

                  Will this inhibit or afford an action to change what we inhibit or afford?

                  How will we find out whether we ought to change what we inhibit or afford?

                  [?]JUnit Team 💙💛 »
                  @junit@fosstodon.org

                  5.12.2 is released!

                  🐞 Fix regression when using CleanupMode.ON_SUCCESS

                  junit.org/junit5/docs/5.12.2/r

                    [?]Marc Philipp »
                    @marcphilipp@chaos.social

                    ✨ New blog post: "STF Milestone 3: Release verification and automation"

                    A major goal of the @sovtechfund is to help projects become more sustainable and decrease their truck factor. For , one activity in desperate need of improvement in this area was performing a release. Prior to this milestone, all JUnit releases of the past years had been performed from my local computer. It was high time to change that!

                    marcphilipp.de/blog/2025/04/01

                    screenshot of GitHub Actions workflow chart

                    Alt...screenshot of GitHub Actions workflow chart

                      [?]Dr. Brian Callahan »
                      @bcallah@bsd.network

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

                      This is awesome. Do you have more Tiger shenanigans planned?

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                        [?]Dr. Brian Callahan »
                        @bcallah@bsd.network

                        @schmonz Short answer, yes. Long answer, later this summer as I am moving.

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

                          @Brodyberg@mastodon.social planned spikes are less, shall we say, spiky

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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 »
                            @schmonz@schmonz.com

                            OH: Whatever needs to be done, I find a way to... delegate it.

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

                            @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 »
                              @schmonz@schmonz.com

                              @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 »
                                @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                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 »
                                    @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                    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 »
                                    @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                    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 »
                                      @schmonz@schmonz.com

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

                                      @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 »
                                        @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                        @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 »
                                            @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                            @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 »
                                              @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                              @ska@treehouse.systems you've always been the most capable among us

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

                                                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 💀 »
                                                @ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org

                                                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 »
                                                  @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                                  @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 »
                                                    @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                                    @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 »
                                                      @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                                      I've moved from @schmonz@octodon.social. Follow me here if you're not already automatically doing so.

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

                                                        When you're stuck in a silo, cooperating goes against the grain.



                                                        original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/114220149548860742

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

                                                        Writing a book about how to do X means you know how to write a book about how to do X.

                                                        We usually assume it also means you know how to do X. Often true, but not always.



                                                        original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/114214438811596915

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

                                                        If folks form a support group to manage the effects of being managed by you, then we have different definitions of "leadership". Also, yours is incorrect.



                                                        original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/114212290997703696

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

                                                        Kiddo had song requests for his MP3 player. I used pkgin on his Mac to install yt-dlp and ffmpeg to do the job, and he (1) thinks I’m a magician and (2) wanted to try running the commands himself. #pkgsrc



                                                        original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/114209142595639671

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

                                                        Sure, practice #refactoring so that your code is likely more amenable to the next needed change.

                                                        But don't sleep on how it also makes you likely more amenable to the next needed refactoring.

                                                        #XPLives



                                                        original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/114186131289660261

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

                                                        @gdinwiddie something like "We're placing a bigger bet. We're declaring our intention for the next months (or years!) to be less creative than usual about delivering value, to be less flexible about what to do by when, to be less responsive when the business's needs change." (from https://agilein3minut.es/20)



                                                        original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/114155986212420591

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

                                                        Projects are inherently risky.

                                                        Projects that by design cannot promptly demonstrate return (or no return) on investment are extra risky.

                                                        Saying these things out loud does not suffice to indemnify us, or me.



                                                        original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/114155773325502483

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

                                                        When negative feedback is vague and unactionable, it might still somehow be a gift.

                                                        When negative feedback that’s vague and unactionable comes from someone with power-over, it’s negligent, irresponsible, and destructive.



                                                        original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/114152175330041608

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

                                                        @deborahh yes and but when I don’t self-host something I always wind up paying an unpredictable duration of effort at an unpredictable juncture, or tolerating a loss, or both. My XP brain would rather amortize the cost and live comfortably with the knowledge that the sword of Damocles is no longer hanging.



                                                        original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/114139980812459954

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                                                        [?]Amitai Schleier »
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