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Indeed, they missed the tiny part of creating the actual memory...

I declare CSS properties in the order they appear on the page (first), for easy updates.

Like the writer I'm also a 'boomer' still keeping connected to an older friend group using Facebook and Instagram. For Facebook, I use the plugin "FB Purity" to filter out the gene…

Yeah, the actual sizes are right there in the pictures, and never < 1 nm.

I think the lesson here is that you should always save (backup) your data on storage (services) and never on functional services. And this certainly includes Google, Apple and Micr…

Totalle agree, I just googled it: "Yukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto heavily credits Smalltalk as the deepest structural inspiration behind Ruby’s object model. He combined Smalltalk’s bea…

Yes, specifically buying options for the book are on this page: (recommended) https://www.jordanmechner.com/en/books/journals

I studied Scheme in CS around 1990, but also found it hard to grasp and to apply to real world problems. And all those parethesis, brrr... :) The idea that "everying is an object a…

In 1979, I made a program called VisiBase in this BASIC. It's a visual database modeled after VisiCalc. That won me a joystick in at a competition by the local computer store. :-) …

Perhaps SmallJS, a Smalltalk built on top of JS, that can run in browsers and in Node.js (and also has async-await :-) : https://small-js.org

This announcement terrfies me. I dont think MS now has developers that are competent enough to reliably change core parts of Windows like the Explorer (taskbar). This plan will not…

A was waiting for the part where he slides his little wafer chip into an ASML High NA EUV...

I've downloaded the entire thing a while back for nostalgia sake. And I am (of course) the proud owner of a physical copy of the "Smalltalk" issue :-) https://archive.org/details/b…

The appeal of having a very simple, base syntax and almost everything in the library / primitives, would be that code is always easy to read and write, also on the 'reflection' lev…

I prefer the postcard ;-) https://richardeng.medium.com/syntax-on-a-post-card-cb6d85fa...

Cool, I'm going to put this disclaimer in my work email signature. So I'm never accountable for any mistakes.

I have this stored locally, of course. And re-bought one physical issue from 1981, that defined computer interaction and programming as we know it today. Say my name... :-) https:/…

I did mean these, very recent promises (vaporware at this moment), without satire. https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-com...

Yes, and the hubris sting-of-death was UWP. They tried to make Windows into a mobile OS, severely restricting the alowed actions of programs, including strict certification to be a…

Mostly solid scientific work, this ;)

Totally agree the only viewing methods in isolation, is less valuable than viewing the methods around it "for free". Indeed the methods in my classes are caryfully ordered, to keep…

Imo, the problem with the 4-pane browsers are: 1 - The left-most 'package' pane is a flat list. And there are 10K + classes in e.g. Pharo. There are 900+ (!) packages in Pharo, in …

Not if they're made by Anthropic...

Yep, there's a lot of (continuing) economical damage and still a lot of new immigrants every week. I think some time still needs to pass before Brexit politicians dare to change th…

Agreed. I'm over 50, so I'm 'allowed' to use FB ;-), for those few posts of the last remaining family and friends there. Using FBP, I only see new posts of friends in chronological…