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

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

Jan. 30, 2026

Re: Smalltalk & clawdbot

by John M McIntosh

Sure, tonight Simba installed a virtual keyboard and mouse control on my headless Ubuntu server which is running a virtual screen for Squeak so it could respond to defeating a does not understand error at startup time, then it opened a workspace and filed in a patch, saved the image & restart. It did this all on itâs own without my guidance or instructionâ¦ .... John M. McIntosh. Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd https://www.linkedin.com/in/smalltalk Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for iOS. -------- Original Message -------- On Monday, 01/26/26 at 03:45 Tim Mackinnon <tim(a)testit.works> wrote: > Hi John - it sounds like we should sign you up for a future UKST session as there seems to be enough different to warrant a session in its own right. Certainly the implications of LLM's on all programming environments are not going away and we all need to understand how to leverage the best bits. > > Tim > > On Sun, 25 Jan 2026, at 9:38 AM, John M McIntosh wrote: > >> 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.

Jan. 30, 2026

Re: How to improve sharpiness of fonts

by Eliot Miranda

Jan. 28, 2026

How to improve sharpiness of fonts

by stephane ducasse

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

Jan. 28, 2026

Re: Smalltalk & clawdbot

by Tim Mackinnon

Hi John - it sounds like we should sign you up for a future UKST session as there seems to be enough different to warrant a session in its own right. Certainly the implications of LLM's on all programming environments are not going away and we all need to understand how to leverage the best bits. Tim On Sun, 25 Jan 2026, at 9:38 AM, John M McIntosh wrote: > 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.

Jan. 26, 2026

Smalltalk & clawdbot

by John M McIntosh

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.

Jan. 25, 2026

Re: AI systems & Smalltalk

by John M McIntosh

Well seems there are other offerings https://github.com/mumez/pharo-smalltalk-interop-mcp-server A shift in how developers think has to occur, Write me a class that I can use to dump all the stacks that arenât housekeeping ones based on a file being touched. Or examine how random numbers are made and the which algorithm is being used. Also identify non cryptography safe usages in the system and why. Look at the network class, identify any race conditions, suggest how to ensure it is green thread safe, give me a new class. -> it suggested worker queues, read/writer processâ¦ Iâm using stdin/stdout each LLM session spins up a squeak/Cuis VM change file /dev/null to avoid conflicts but image shouldnât be altered on disk anyway. Oh and take this MQTT v3.1.1 Smalltalk implementation give me a V5. That took 45 minutes, will release in a few weeks. Ya SIGUSR1 .... John M. McIntosh. Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd https://www.linkedin.com/in/smalltalk Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for iOS. -------- Original Message -------- On Friday, 01/23/26 at 05:47 Tim Mackinnon <tim(a)testit.works> wrote: > Hi John - this sounds very interesting and the next UKSTUG meeting is on the 28th cover AI in Smalltalk, so I will mention this and see how comparable/complementary that work is - ideally leading to some folks making your solution run in Pharo as well. (of course - might be interesting for you to join us on the 28th too if you have time) > > Tim > > On Fri, 23 Jan 2026, at 3:24 AM, John M McIntosh wrote: > >> 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

Jan. 24, 2026

Re: AI systems & Smalltalk

by Kasper Osterbye

I have been trying my stuff on Ollama, Mistral, Gemini, OpenAI, Claude and Grok, and some others. And for each of these I have tried four of their models. All are different, and all comparable. I hope to get some questions I cannot answer - such are mostly the most interesting. Best, Kasper > On 23 Jan 2026, at 15.05, omar abedelkader <omar.abedelkader(a)inria.fr> wrote: > > Hi > > Iâm working on ChatPharo, which uses a different Agent in the backend, Ollama, Gemini, and Mistral > > https://github.com/omarabedelkader/ChatPharo > > -- > OA > >> Le 23 janv. 2026 Ã 14:46, Tim Mackinnon <tim(a)testit.works> a Ã©crit : >> >> Hi John - this sounds very interesting and the next UKSTUG meeting is on the 28th cover AI in Smalltalk, so I will mention this and see how comparable/complementary that work is - ideally leading to some folks making your solution run in Pharo as well. (of course - might be interesting for you to join us on the 28th too if you have time) >> >> Tim >> >> On Fri, 23 Jan 2026, at 3:24 AM, John M McIntosh wrote: >>> 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 >>> >> >

Jan. 23, 2026

Re: AI systems & Smalltalk

by omar abedelkader

Hi Iâm working on ChatPharo, which uses a different Agent in the backend, Ollama, Gemini, and Mistral https://github.com/omarabedelkader/ChatPharo -- OA > Le 23 janv. 2026 Ã 14:46, Tim Mackinnon <tim(a)testit.works> a Ã©crit : > > Hi John - this sounds very interesting and the next UKSTUG meeting is on the 28th cover AI in Smalltalk, so I will mention this and see how comparable/complementary that work is - ideally leading to some folks making your solution run in Pharo as well. (of course - might be interesting for you to join us on the 28th too if you have time) > > Tim > > On Fri, 23 Jan 2026, at 3:24 AM, John M McIntosh wrote: >> 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 >> >

Jan. 23, 2026

Re: AI systems & Smalltalk

by Tim Mackinnon

Hi John - this sounds very interesting and the next UKSTUG meeting is on the 28th cover AI in Smalltalk, so I will mention this and see how comparable/complementary that work is - ideally leading to some folks making your solution run in Pharo as well. (of course - might be interesting for you to join us on the 28th too if you have time) Tim On Fri, 23 Jan 2026, at 3:24 AM, John M McIntosh wrote: > 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 >

Jan. 23, 2026