If your business makes software, I might be good for your business.

https://schmonz.com/snac/schmonz/p/1750949585.435936

Here's my setup: https://schmonz.com/2025/11/12/small-macs/

(Writing... muscles... loosening.)

#macos #linux #netbsd

I blogged about the system we have used for years to teach our #kids about saving #money: https://www.rainskit.com/blog/kids_money/

I've been very happy with it, and maybe this system will be useful for you, too!

If there is one thing I could pass along to folk:

Your career will outlive every bad decision that someone in upper management will make. Your role is to learn what you can, not just the task or tech, but what to watch out for next time. Help the folk who will get caught up in the next bad decision, because they will help when you get hit.

And if you are in the position to make bad decisions, have a failure plan that protects your team. It’s easy to get someone to follow you once.

Getting them to follow you the second time makes you a leader.

You should know #pkgsrc 2025Q3 was released yesterday:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2025/09/25/msg042016.html

#netbsd

Today I tagged #pkgsrc 2025Q3. Announcement forthcoming.

For the same reasons, some published authors are better at describing than at enacting.

Maybe an author really knows, in context, under stress, how to do the thing. Maybe not.

#ExtremeProgramming

1. Become Director of Engineering

2. Tell org and stakeholders that XP will fix longstanding problems

3. Regularly interfere with devs’ learning

4. Design projects to delay ROI

5. Find scapegoats

Maybe they’ll blame #XP.

If the only bits of #ExtremeProgramming you’ve mastered are the technical ones, you’re not an XP expert. Especially if you’re sure you are.

I appreciate the reminder to consider systemic factors that push people to make such choices. The systemic factors suck. But also people who make any part of others' lives miserable suck.

Maybe in your case it’ll be what it sounds like. I hope so. But beware. https://schmonz.com/snac/schmonz/p/1757721641.814818

If you’re still sure of your understanding, regardless of cost to you and others… clownshoes.

If you do this while claiming to be an #XP expert, that’s clownshoes.

What does this feedback reveal about the giver? Would you expect them to be a skilled leader or manager?

Leaders are not obligated to value such feedback.

But if they don’t, they oughtn’t claim to value #ExtremeProgramming. They value something incompatible.

X68k 4bpp server on NetBSD/x68k 10.1 on nono 1.5.0 on NetBSD/i386 10.1

If influential developers of the highest caliber keep not meeting your expectations, you have much more to learn about #EngineeringLeadership.