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Mar 29, 2014 at 11:06

I prefer learning programming languages by reading tutorials, but I've found screencasts essential for getting started with Smalltalk.

Mar 20, 2026 at 12:02

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Excellent series on Self, both the programming model and the tool chain. I love how opening an inspector on a value (e.g. nil) then shows a link to all occurrences of the value in other open inspectors!

Environment and the programming language Self (part one; environment)

I bring you a message about a language that has been at the birth of many others, but almost no one knows it. A rumor of a graphical environment offering options like no other, but almost no one using it. I also bring information about a virtual machine supporting reflection almost to infinity, reaching almost half of the operating power of C in numerical calculations in its time, yet today forgotten.

Mar 7, 2026 at 17:18

Agentic programming workflows rather remind me of genetic programming. The agent has a validation step that looks like a fitness function, and both run iterative trials.

Feb 26, 2026 at 12:17

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I enjoyed this article about personal project programming, but I particularly liked this definition: "Production code has a phone number to call when it breaks"

An ode to houseplant programming 🪴

Waxing poetic about hyperlocal phytoid software development

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