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Amitai Schleier @schmonz@octodon.social

Progress: C SMTP proxy reliably logs all I/O, dies when client or server dies, does not interfere at all (yet!). gist.github.com/schmonz/6d8da5

"A near-perfect BSD project: . I put it up there with OpenSSH and mandoc… significant value to other OSes."

ixsystems.com/blog/vbsdcon-201

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

I'm making good progress on several small new programs to extend my service without modifying . schmonz.com/qmail/authutils

Behold, I hath learned stuff about pipes and select()! This SMTP proxy does what I want. Now to translate to DJB C: gist.github.com/schmonz/6d8da5

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.

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_.

What I learned from , despite not having been there, and a brief happy personal update: schmonz.com/talk/20170821-agil

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!

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.

What's look like? We'd have to do it together. But once agree on examples, what's look like? schmonz.com/2017/08/17/toronto

One man's personal account of his town outwitting an unwanted rally. Just a few miles down the road from here. thelongestway.com/2017/04/08/i

"🎵Regrets, I don't know what they are and can't count, and wouldn't know how to mention them anyway…🎶"
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Implementing in 2017:

- Do what 3rd-party scanners claim is wise
- Discover interop problems by e.g. losing mail
- Run moar scanz?