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Re: [Job] Smalltalk job in Glasgow, UK

by Development

Mike, Great to see Kapital still alive thirteen years after Athena was going to deep 6 it! Cheers, Bob On Feb 26, 2026, at 08:31, Mike Roberts <mike(a)mjr104.co.uk> wrote: ï»¿ Here is a new job opportunity to work on the Kapital Smalltalk system in Glasgow, UK. https://jpmc.fa.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/… <https://jpmc.fa.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/…> If you are interested, please apply through the website. Kind regards, Mike

Feb. 26, 2026

[Job] Smalltalk job in Glasgow, UK

by Mike Roberts

Here is a new job opportunity to work on the Kapital Smalltalk system in Glasgow, UK. https://jpmc.fa.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/… If you are interested, please apply through the website. Kind regards, Mike

Feb. 26, 2026

"Presentation at ESUG'25" â New blog post on all: objects all: theTime

by Koen De Hondt

Dear Pharo users and developers, The Pharo team has posted the recorded presentations of ESUG 2025 on YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/@esugboard/videos>. I collected links to the slides and the video of my presentation about Hera in a short blog post. https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/21 Best regards, Koen

Feb. 24, 2026

Re: [Pharo-users] Call for Presentation for ESUG 2026

by stephane ducasse

The correct dates are 4 to 10 of July 2026 :) Sorry for the typo. S > On 19 Feb 2026, at 11:02, stephane ducasse via Pharo-users <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> wrote: > > Hello Happy Smalltalkers > > Here is the call for presentation for ESUG 2026. > > The ESUG board is pleased to announce Call for presentations at the 31th ESUG conference to be held in > Plovdiv, Bulgaria 7 - 10 July 2026. > > We are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. > You will have 30 min for presentations and 45-60 min for hand-ons tutorial. > > The list of topics for the normal talks and tutorials includes, but is not limited to the following: > > - Micro Services, Container, Cloud, Big Data, > - XP practices, Development tools, Experience reports > - Model driven development, Web development, Team management > - Meta-Modeling, Security, New libraries and frameworks > - Educational material, Embedded systems and robotics > - SOA and Web services, Interaction with other programming languages > - Teaching Pearls > - Show us Your Business > - Show your business 10 min session (Get prepared!!) > > ## How to submit? > > - Submission deadline is 1st of May 2026 > - Notification of acceptance will be on done on the fly. > > Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last minute to apply. > > Prospective presenters should submit a Pull Request on *https://github.com/ESUG/esug.github.io/tree/source/2026-Conference/talks>https://github.com/ESUG/esug.github.io/tree/source/2026-Conference/talks* > > If you do not succeed to do a PR you can send an email to <omar.abedelkader(a)inria.fr> and <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> with [ESUG2026] in the title > > = Title: Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed! > = Name: > = Email: > = Abstract: > = Bio: > > Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded automatically.

Feb. 20, 2026

Call for Presentation for ESUG 2026

by stephane ducasse

Hello Happy Smalltalkers Here is the call for presentation for ESUG 2026. The ESUG board is pleased to announce Call for presentations at the 31th ESUG conference to be held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria 7 - 10 July 2026. We are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. You will have 30 min for presentations and 45-60 min for hand-ons tutorial. The list of topics for the normal talks and tutorials includes, but is not limited to the following: - Micro Services, Container, Cloud, Big Data, - XP practices, Development tools, Experience reports - Model driven development, Web development, Team management - Meta-Modeling, Security, New libraries and frameworks - Educational material, Embedded systems and robotics - SOA and Web services, Interaction with other programming languages - Teaching Pearls - Show us Your Business - Show your business 10 min session (Get prepared!!) ## How to submit? - Submission deadline is 1st of May 2026 - Notification of acceptance will be on done on the fly. Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last minute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a Pull Request on *https://github.com/ESUG/esug.github.io/tree/source/2026-Conference/talks>https://github.com/ESUG/esug.github.io/tree/source/2026-Conference/talks* If you do not succeed to do a PR you can send an email to <omar.abedelkader(a)inria.fr> and <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> with [ESUG2026] in the title = Title: Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed! = Name: = Email: = Abstract: = Bio: Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded automatically.

Feb. 19, 2026

Re: LLM generated Spec Driven Workflow in Pharo

by S Krish

Looks like an opportunity to ride the Gen AI wave if there is concerted effort to show a 10% improvement over any other language using Pharo. Some of the historical issues of smalltalk adoption and the key fact that it's USP, Syntax and grammar simplicity can play on its favor... Will do a deep dive sometime ahead I can spare https://share.google/aimode/yOBigzqW18bl8nbeb On Thu, 19 Feb, 2026, 10:22 S Krish, <krishnamachari.sudhakar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > If we can integrate the typical Speckit or Openspec like workflow into > smalltalk it can be an experience better than java and python too.. > > Maybe have a vscode folder talk to pharo through a tcp / udp pipe.. run > through the workflow after init: > Read the application package if brown field to baseline, then go through > new change, apply and archive lifestyle > > OR > > have all of it in the IDE.. including md text etc .. use pharo chat to > interact.. > > > Integrating AI into Pharo Smalltalk enables a unique "Live Spec" workflow that > surpasses the Java model. Because Pharo is a live image rather than a > collection of static files, the LLM can interact directly with the running > environment's Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) and reflective capabilities > > > On Tue, 10 Feb, 2026, 22:08 Koen De Hondt, < > koen(a)all-objects-all-the-time.st> wrote: > >> Dear Pharo users and developers, >> >> I posted a second article in the series about describing Spec application >> behaviour with Hera. The first post explained how Hera manages open Spec >> windows. The new post explains how Hera identifies presenters so they can >> be referenced in Gherkin scenarios. >> >> https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/20 >> >> As always, all feedback is welcome. >> >> Happy reading! >> >> Ciao, >> Koen >> >

Feb. 19, 2026

LLM generated Spec Driven Workflow in Pharo

by S Krish

If we can integrate the typical Speckit or Openspec like workflow into smalltalk it can be an experience better than java and python too.. Maybe have a vscode folder talk to pharo through a tcp / udp pipe.. run through the workflow after init: Read the application package if brown field to baseline, then go through new change, apply and archive lifestyle OR have all of it in the IDE.. including md text etc .. use pharo chat to interact.. Integrating AI into Pharo Smalltalk enables a unique "Live Spec" workflow that surpasses the Java model. Because Pharo is a live image rather than a collection of static files, the LLM can interact directly with the running environment's Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) and reflective capabilities On Tue, 10 Feb, 2026, 22:08 Koen De Hondt, <koen(a)all-objects-all-the-time.st> wrote: > Dear Pharo users and developers, > > I posted a second article in the series about describing Spec application > behaviour with Hera. The first post explained how Hera manages open Spec > windows. The new post explains how Hera identifies presenters so they can > be referenced in Gherkin scenarios. > > https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/20 > > As always, all feedback is welcome. > > Happy reading! > > Ciao, > Koen >

Feb. 19, 2026

A Pharo-LLM organization

by omar abedelkader

Hello All, I have created an organization specialized in all the tools, specialized in providing a set of tools for using Large Language Models (LLMs) inside the Pharo There are already multiple projects there, like an inference engine inside Pharo instead of working on external APIs like Ollama, LM Studio, in this way, you have all the model capability in your hand :) There is pharo-mcp server that implements the MCP server inside Pharo :) and many more. https://github.com/pharo-llmï¿¼ Pharo-LLM github.com â Omar AbedelKader https://github.com/pharo-llm

Feb. 13, 2026

Re: LLM which coder is best?

by steven.costiou＠kloum.io

Any thoughts about ethical and environmental concerns while doing this work and requesting help from the Pharo community? Steven. Le 2026-02-12 22:56, John M McIntosh a Ã©crit : > Updated our release of ClaudeSmalltalk today to better support the > OpenAI codex models, and added xAI support. > Any Pharo developer who would like to assist in altering the code base > to support Pharo? > > In asking the various LLM models to explain for example the class > 'FMSound' I found that xAI Grok 4.1 Fast gave the best answer as > compared to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Qwen. It is significantly cheap too. > https://github.com/CorporateSmalltalkConsultingLtd/ClaudeSmalltalk/releases… > > .... > John M. McIntosh. Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd > https://www.linkedin.com/in/smalltalk

Feb. 13, 2026

Re: LLM which coder is best?

by Nicolas Anquetil

hello, what do you have in mind ? What do you need ? kindly nicolas On 2/12/26 22:56, John M McIntosh wrote: > Updated our release of ClaudeSmalltalk today to better support the > OpenAI codex models, and added xAI support. > Any Pharo developer who would like to assist in altering the code base > to support Pharo? > > In asking the various LLM models to explain for example the class > 'FMSound' I found that xAI Grok 4.1 Fast gave the best answer as > compared to OpenAI, Anthropic, andÂ Qwen. It is significantly cheap too. > https://github.com/CorporateSmalltalkConsultingLtd/ClaudeSmalltalk/releases… > > .... > John M. McIntosh. Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd > https://www.linkedin.com/in/smalltalk -- Nicolas Anquetil Evref team -- Inria Lille

Feb. 13, 2026