@schmonz to my business associates, but you can call me Amitai Schleier.

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Listen to the gossip.

[he/they]
Force multiplier.
Outcome improver.
Decision sharer.
Developer, leader, coach.
agilein3minut.es podcaster.
Musician.
Bad poet (award-winning).

Shiny is better. ☎

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Where Agile sounds pleasant and inclusive, XP… doesn’t. But it’s a differentiator: XP teams move with uncommon agility. Relevant to non-programmer non-extremists! So how to take advantage?

My first talk in years: https://schmonz.com/talk/2024-lessnyc-may/
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When you coach technique, you need coach techniques. Here's one for entering a team: https://schmonz.com/2024/04/17/coach-technique-give-a-gift
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@33MHz alternatively, "I learn things when I have to"
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9 yrs ago: at Agile Roots when Quinton Quartel first proposed using Open Space Technology for Agile at scale: “FaST”

1 hr ago: my first FaST meeting

Now: Quinton at Software Teaming 2024 on Software Teaming with FaST
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"In my first job as a software developer, by a string of lucky occurrences, I happened to land someplace doing XP. I hadn’t heard of it."

My, how the tables have turned. On myself. New job starts today: https://schmonz.com/2024/04/09/found-a-fit/
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"Happily, the conclusion is boring: as always, the #pkgsrc 2024Q1 stable branch supports macOS. Curious what we had to do to keep it boring? Read on."

https://schmonz.com/2024/04/02/pkgsrc-on-macos-still-works/
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Upgrading my #NetBSD VMs to 10.0:

- amd64
- arm64
- armv7
- hppa
- i386
- macppc
- sparc
- sparc64
- vax

Building 10.0 binary packages for my amd64 VPS, itself soon to be 10.0.

My uptimes are fallen. Worthy sacrifices all.
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For #pkgsrc, zealous new warnings-as-errors are no good. We build quarterly releases of >25k other-people's-code on dozens of platforms. What to do? https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2024/03/11/msg028994.html
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#macOS Command Line Tools 15.3.0.0.1.1708646388 somehow ships without m4 or yacc.

#pkgsrc has a "tools" abstraction to deal with this, so we've dealt with it: https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/commit/b889d0bc0d9edd0d04311ec0c36de73ed644ab4d
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Not the worst packaging of qmail ever devised: https://github.com/schmonz/pkgsrc-qmail-run/blob/44f3d60a566b08a5c6d529b6a34de200fbf93833/files/README.pkgsrc

#smtp #spf #dkim #dmarc
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Love wikis, but tired of hunting for Edit links? Try my Edit This Page user script.

You'll always know when you're on an editable page. And with the Edit link at top right, you'll always know where to click.

https://schmonz.com/software/editthispage
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@33MHz Coming up on 6, for me. Similar boat: nothing is real until direct deposit starts flowing, but in the meantime we're floating along. What a weird time.
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@33MHz Oof. Thanks for checking in. Tired for what seems like forever, coming out of what seems like the Nth consecutive illness, still no job or prospects, but maybe refreshed to take up the search again. How about for you?
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Season 2 of Agile in 3 Minutes — the simplest podcast that could possibly work — continues with Scope.

“Would you listen to ‘Agile in However Long It Takes, Whenever’? I wouldn't feel as good about making it, that's for sure.”

https://agilein3minut.es/19
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from sun at upper left, trees cast long diagonal shadows over leaf-covered grass
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Happy Friday!

Reflecting on your work week, were you able to have the influence you wanted to? What were some ways that others influenced you?

How often do people do as you suggest?

https://agilein3minut.es/15
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Weekly Piano Miniatures, complete playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am
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Daily Piano Miniatures, complete playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclQJqoIVpk9W9-eIRswejo-R
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I'm pressing Pause on continuous delivery of music. When conditions change, I'll resume shipping to prod. https://schmonz.com/2023/11/09/intermission

In the meantime, please find and share your favorites from the last 1.5 years!
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The technical documentation I treasure most has at least these tendencies:

1. To stay accurate over time
2. To defer learning we don't yet want
3. To clarify when a decision ought to be revisited
4. To appear in our moments of need
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You gave up too much to turn back now. ⇄