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Re: The worst programmer

by Noury Bouraqadi

Glad you pointed it Christian. I saw the title on X, and since I know Tim, I thought it was a troll ð Noury On Sep 4 2023, at 4:58 pm, Christian Haider <mail(a)christianhaider.de> wrote: > Today there was a link in the Daily Insider [1] to a really nice blog post [2] featuring Tim Mackinnon as the worst programmer. > > Congratulations Tim J > > Cheers, > Christian > > [1] https://www.codeproject.com/script/Mailouts/View.aspx?mlid=17447&_z=13433946 > [2] https://dannorth.net/2023/09/02/the-worst-programmer/ >

Sept. 5, 2023

The worst programmer

by Christian Haider

Today there was a link in the Daily Insider [1] to a really nice blog post [2] featuring Tim Mackinnon as the worst programmer. Congratulations Tim :) Cheers, Christian [1] https://www.codeproject.com/script/Mailouts/View.aspx?mlid=17447 <https://www.codeproject.com/script/Mailouts/View.aspx?mlid=17447&_z=1343394 6> &_z=13433946 [2] https://dannorth.net/2023/09/02/the-worst-programmer/

Sept. 4, 2023

This week (35/2023) on the Pharo Issue Tracker

by Marcus Denker

# Fonts - Extend FreeTypeCache to support different scales #14544 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14544 - Add âscaleâ parameter for displaying strings using a StrikeFont, FixedFaceFont or LogicalFont #14563 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14563 - Add âscaleâ parameter for displaying strings using a FreeTypeFont #14503 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14503 - Remove StrikeFontSet and StrikeFontSetStoredSetting (bis) #14549 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14549 - Remove StubFixedFont #14550 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14550 - Fix bugs in display of wide characters through StrikeFont #14543 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14543 # RPackage - RPackage: Simplify method additions in tests #14566 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14566 - RPackage: Unify creation of packages from extension protocols #14551 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14551 - Monticello: Announce MethodAdded when compiling a method whose prior method is from a different origin #14565 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14565 - RPackage: #packageTag should work on class side #14561 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14561 - RPackage: #packageTag should always return a tag #14556 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14556 - RPackage: Iteration on tag API in RPackage #14548 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14548 - RPackage: Do not repackage methods twice #14538 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14538 - RPackage: Remove duplicated classes infos #14513 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14513 - RPackage: Clean package tag API #14539 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14539 - RPackage: Simplify protocol manipulation #14537 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14537 - RPackage: Remove #systemCategories #14517 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14517 - RPackage: Try to fix CI failure #14530 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14530 # Refactoring Eingine - Fix: update test expected results #14545 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14545 - Refactorings: Remove categories from environments and clean the code #14546 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14546 - Refactor: replace message sends #14522 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14522 - Enh/cleaning breaking changes #14516 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14516 # Fixes - Speedup key combination for all items selection in Test Runner #14534 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14534 - Update Calypso after removal of a new package. #14531 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14531 - Calypso: Prevent the recategorization of removed methods #14555 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14555 # Cleanup - Fix: #14541: Remove multiple methods does not work anymore #14560 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14560 - Reduce UIManager (hidden) dependencies #1445 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1445

Sept. 4, 2023

This week (34/2023) on the Pharo Issue Tracker

by Marcus Denker

# This week (34/2023) on the Pharo Issue Tracker Due to Holiday season not much happend, but both the Refactorig and RPackage improvements continued to see some actions. # Refactoring Engine - Fix: enable push down method for concrete classes #14500 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14500 - Cleanup: rename primitive execute #14506 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14506 # RPackage - Packages: Introduce new API in MCOrganizationDefinition #14509 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14509 - RPackage: Simplify actions of method modifications #14510 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14510 - RPackage: Simplify class import #14507 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14507 - RPackage: Clean bootstrap initialization #14462 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14462 - RPackage: Fix some flacky tests #14487 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14487 - Save real classes in RPackage #14501 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14501 # Cleanup - Simplify FixedFaceFont by removing âdisplaySelectorâ #14508 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14508 - Removing references to text editor #14496 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14496

Aug. 25, 2023

This week (33/2023) on the Pharo Issue Tracker

by Marcus Denker

# Pharo 11 - [P11] Adding a nice error for loadSymbol #14452 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14452 # Features - Add #enumerationsDo: and #enumerationsOfSize: #13952 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/13952 # Fixes - Fix BrowseIt for Classes https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14481 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14482 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1439 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1438 - Remove events for the existing ChangesLog when installing NoChangesLog #14477 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14477 - Fix bug in #rubParagraph:bounds:color: in PluggableCanvas #14479 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14479 - Make methods in the UITheme hierarchy take the display scale factor into account #14464 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14464 # RPackage Cleanup - RPackage: Fix failing tests #14494 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14494 - RPackage: Make Gofer cleanup use Package API #14488 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14488 - Use new API of ClassFactoryForTestCase #1432 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1432 # Refactoring Engine - Refactoring: Use less categories in RBMoveClassTransformation #14492 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14492 - Fix: make class abstract #14469 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14469 - Make Remove instance variables works well on a list using a new compoâ¦ #14475 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14475 - Creating less blocks instead of using simple temporaries. #14478 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14478 - Cleanup: rename all conditions to preconditions #14484 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14484 - Refactor: move-to-class-side uses composite refactoring #14489 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14489 - Refactorings: Remove category environment #14493 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14493

Aug. 18, 2023

Embedding FAUST in Pharo - meet the FAUST team in Lyon

by Sebastian Jordan Montano

Here is a message from Domenico: I tried to sent an email about this to the Pharo mailing list, but I am not sure it was forwarded. so: as ESUG in Lyon this year, I was chatting with some people of the FAUST (https://faust.grame.fr/) team at GRAME (https://www.grame.fr/) about my live coding with Pharo, the music with Pharo and if we could find a way to embed the Faust compiler in Pharo (https://faustdoc.grame.fr/manual/embedding/) one of the guys of the team would like to meet me during ESUG most probably with the director scientifiche Yann Orlarey. I told him that maybe the best thing is to join us for our usual beer-after-conference, maybe on Tuesday or on Thursday. if anybody wants to participate at the informal meeting, please express a preference about the day and time :). last but not least, GRAME is now part of INRIA,( https://team.inria.fr/emeraude/) looking forward for your reply, Pharo + FAUST could be a really cool thing. p.s. they would like to listen at to my talk on Monday morning but I guess this is a question for the esug-mailing list

Aug. 17, 2023

AST vs. Bytecode Interpreters

by Steffen MÃ¤rcker

Hi folks! Today I found this interesting paper via Stefan Marr on the performance differences of ast vs. bytecode interpreters (for meta compilation): https://stefan-marr.de/downloads/oopsla23-larose-et-al-ast-vs-bytecode-inte… It was a really interesting read. I do not remember seeing this on the list. If it was, please apologize double posting. Cheers! Steffen

Aug. 15, 2023

Re: Personal wiki / information manager

by Siemen Baader

On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 4:21â¯AM <sean(a)clipperadams.com> wrote: > TheProjectProject <https://github.com/seandenigris/The-Project-Project> > is the GTD component of my Dynabook project > <https://github.com/seandenigris/Dynabook>. Behind it is about 20 years > of work incorporating ideas from countless productivity disciplines - GTD, > Steven Covey, Landmark Educationâs Mission Control spin off, etcâ¦ > Very interesting, I'll check it out! And yes, I agree - it is very helpful to be able to extend and also automate a productivity system with any concept from one's life. Very cool that you have extended it with Corey's 7 habits. I have meeting announcements that I'd like to automate across email and SoMe channels, and recipes, meal planning, online grocery ordering and bulk cooking. The Dynabook approach sort of legitimates the approach of evolving such a system yourself as empowering literacy, rather than using a patchwork of specialized end user applications. I get the impression that Lisp folks do have an ASCII inspired Dynabook universe with Emacs and OrgMode. We could ask Nicolas Petton.. I found his Pharo projects to be extremely creative and well-engineered. Now he is using GTD & OrgMode and maintaining Emacs. [3] My own Dynabook system has a Pharo backend and internal Pharo DSL and AJAX web app frontend based on Iliad. The latter to allow collaboration with non-pharo end users on certain projects. I'm interested in adding instrumental interaction [1] to the web frontend to provide context appropriate editing tools in a feasible way, along with the context appropriate views HTML gives me quite nicely (similar to the inspectors in the GToolkit philosophy). A big project and certainly more to talk about... Do you have a mobile workflow too? I use mobile a lot - for now with OrgMode and the beOrg mobile app. I also have a wearable computer with a Raspberry Pi, Vufine [2] and Twiddler one hand keyboard which has some advantages over mobile because I can type faster and maintain a view of the world through the HUD. The Twiddler is quite efficient for text/emacs-style editing and emacs runs quite well on the Pi, so I'm still interested in some sort of OrgMode compatibility to remain pragmatic & productive on these journeys. Sorry for my late response BTW, summer time... I really appreciate TheProjectProject and the thoughts behind it. cheers Siemen 1: https://www.lri.fr/~mbl/INSTR/eintroduction.html 2: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/7/27/16035508/diy-wearable-com… 3: https://emacs.cafe/emacs/orgmode/gtd/2017/06/30/orgmode-gtd.html

Aug. 12, 2023

This week (32/2023) on the Pharo Issue Tracker

by Marcus Denker

# Pharo 11 - [P11] Traits has to install method when is generated code #14155 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14155 - [P11] Update Spec #14446 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14446 - 14141-BlockClosureisClean-regression-from-Pharo-10-to-11 #14448 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14448 - [backport] SpMorphicBackendForTest>>#doubleClickFirstRowAndColumn: #1431 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1431 - Backport display scale factor improvements to Pharo 11 #1429 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1429 # Fixes - Extend Behavior>>handleFailingBasicNew: #14196 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14196 - Change #destinationPath in ThemeIcons to use the local directory instead of the working directory #14450 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14450 - Improve load symbol error #14453 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14453 - Kernel: Unify method addition #14467 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14467 - Spec Little fixes on tests #1434 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1434 # UI Scaling - Make methods in classes in the category âCalypso-Browser-UIâ take the display scale factor into account #14457 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14457 - Make methods in classes in the category âCalypso-Browser-Toolbarâ take the display scale factor into account #14456 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14456 - Make methods in classes in the category âCalypso-Browser-Tableâ take the display scale factor into account #14458 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14458 - Make #inspectionColors in UITheme take the display scale factor into account #576 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/576 - Make #defaultExtent and #preferredExtent in playground presenters take the display scale factor into account #577 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/577 - Make methods in SpMorphicButtonBarAdapter take the display scale factor into account #1436 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1436 # Refactoring Engine - Ressurrect remove method refactoring #14470 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14470 - add class comments + tests to rbnamespace to show how selection is acâ¦ #14444 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14444 - Refactor: add method refactoring #14445 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14445 # RPackage Cleanup - Use classes in the class mapping of RPackageOrganizer #14391 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14391 - RPackage: Cleanings in tag #14447 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14447 - RPackage: Use real classes for extension caches #14454 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14454 - RPackage: Clean package demotion and tag promotion #14463 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14463 - RPackage: Improve coherence of names in RPackageTraitTest #14465 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14465 - RPackage: Clean some tests #14466 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/14466 - Do not use RPackage organizer #569 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/569 # Git / Iceberg - Do not use RPackage organizer #1719 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1719 - Prevent the browsing of a removed element #1720 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1720

Aug. 11, 2023

Re: Pharo in Docker.

by Esteban Lorenzano

Aug. 9, 2023