January 2026 - Pharo-dev - lists.pharo.org

"Spec Window Management in Hera" â New blog post on all: objects all: theTime
by Koen De Hondt Jan. 30, 2026

Jan. 30, 2026

Dear Pharo users and developers, I started a series of posts about describing Spec application behaviour with Hera. The first post explains how Hera manages open Spec windows and describes the Gherkin steps involved with windows. https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/19 As always, all feedback is welcome. Happy reading! Ciao, Koen

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Smalltalk & clawdbot
by John M McIntosh Jan. 30, 2026

Jan. 30, 2026

Runs the Squeak 6.0 environment on Linux. Access from your telegram account https://clawdhub.com/johnmci/smalltalk Clawdbot did all the work, now an approved contributor to https://github.com/CorporateSmalltalkConsultingLtd/ClaudeSmalltalk .... John M. McIntosh. Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd https://www.linkedin.com/in/smalltalk Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for iOS.

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How to improve sharpiness of fonts
by stephane ducasse Jan. 28, 2026

Jan. 28, 2026

Hi guys Happy new year! I would like to share with you a need. I have different screens of different DPI and my view is not getting better. Now on retina the fonts are either too small (zoom 100) or too large (150) so I end up having blurry fonts. I would like to know if the situation could be improved with font that have a larger spectrum of sizes. May be using the fonts of the OS could help too. Any idea and help is welcome. S

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AI systems & Smalltalk
by John M McIntosh Jan. 24, 2026

Jan. 24, 2026

This evening I added ChatGPT support to our work on AI systems talking to Squeak and Cuis systems. Likely 10 minutes to enable Pharo to join the party, any takers?https://github.com/CorporateSmalltalkConsultingLtd/ClaudeSmalltalk .... John M. McIntosh. Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd https://www.linkedin.com/in/smalltalk

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Claude & Smalltalk
by John M McIntosh Jan. 21, 2026

Jan. 21, 2026

Hi, if you've been watch Claude Code taking over the world, missing interacting with Smalltalk, then I've build out an interface so you can talk to Cuis Smalltalk. However the Python MCP bridge interfaces to a Smalltalk solution via MQTT so a bit of work could be done to enable one to talk to a Pharo image. https://github.com/CorporateSmalltalkConsultingLtd/SmalltalkCuisMCP .... John M. McIntosh. Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd https://www.linkedin.com/in/smalltalk

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Looking for Metacello beta testers
by stephane ducasse Jan. 4, 2026

Jan. 4, 2026

Hello Under the radar, we are actively continiously cleaning Pharo deep core so that we can work on new features. For metacello, in Pharo 13 we introduced a strict mode (so that we can detect hidden dependencies), and other loading features to support module experimentations. It will make Pharo code more robust in the long term. Since a couple of months we are actively simplifying/cleaning Metacello (as the version available in Pharo) because we want to introduce new features such as the possibility to force the reload of baselines and others. Now the unit test coverage of metacello is quite low and we do not use/know all the features that are available and that you may rely on. So we would love to have beta testers that can just try to load their code in Pharo 14 alpha and report potential bugs or features drop we would have introduced. So do not hesitate and this is a nice way to help pharo S.

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