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2026 2

  1. smolts: a pedagogical IDE for a teaching language
  2. Modelling Actors with Redex: Part III

2025 6

  1. Loading Ian Piumarta's Smalltalk terminal emulator code
  2. Strict alternation of data and behaviour in Smalltalk
  3. Multiple Continuations in Pattern Matching
  4. What is a “Fantasy Abstract”?
  5. Setting up daemontools to run services for an ordinary user
  6. Linux DRM Dumb Buffers are slow to read, not write

2024 7

  1. Hot code reloading in Erlang without using an OTP release
  2. m4 crimes for metaprogramming Processing
  3. UI for sums must remember products
  4. Are aarch64 atomics really this sensitive? (A: No)
  5. More pitfalls regarding JavaScript's non-monadic promises
  6. Python3 is removing crypt.crypt and not replacing it with anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  7. Unmangling paths set by direnv on Windows 11

2023 7

  1. On the harm caused by missing basic (basic!) functionality in Signal, WhatsApp, Android and iOS
  2. Simpler Preserves Binary Syntax
  3. Joining Markdown tables
  4. Virtualizing uxn
  5. File distribution over DNS: (ab)using DNS as a CDN
  6. Preserves Python Documentation
  7. SirTunnel, a personal ngrok alternative

2022 1

  1. Purely Functional Operating Systems

2021 5

  1. ~60x speed-up of Linux "perf"
  2. New System-layer Syndicate project
  3. New Syndicate website
  4. OnScreenKeyboardMorph: Smalltalk keyboard on a phone
  5. TypeScript: Messages from Interfaces and back

2020 2

  1. Crashing Squeak Smalltalk is easy—or is it?
  2. Developing with Squeak on a Cellphone

2016 2

  1. Part I
  2. exercise 2 from Part II