Hacker News: xkriva11

New comment by xkriva11 in "Pharo 14"

xkriva11 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:37:40 +0000

In that example, the characters move.

New comment by xkriva11 in "Pharo 14"

xkriva11 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:38:10 +0000

It works well, I mostly use Pi with MCP.

Pharo 14

xkriva11 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 11:15:50 +0000

Article URL: https://pharo.org/news/2026-10-26-Pharo14Release.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241925

Points: 264

# Comments: 73

New comment by xkriva11 in "Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE)"

xkriva11 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:39:07 +0000

One example of a very widely used desktop application written in Smalltalk was the first version of Scratch.

New comment by xkriva11 in "Ask HN: Has anyone shipped a self-modifying application with LLMs?"

xkriva11 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:25:06 +0000

It is here for many decades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEz08IlcNMg

New comment by xkriva11 in "Squeak 6.1"

xkriva11 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:41:32 +0000

Probably start with Pharo MOOC: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2okA_2qDJ-kCHVcNXdO5...

New comment by xkriva11 in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

xkriva11 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:17:10 +0000

Smalltalk: https://github.com/pavel-krivanek/BarePharo

New comment by xkriva11 in "The End of an Era"

xkriva11 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:57:40 +0000

There is one important point to note. Works created by artificial intelligence are not subject to copyright.

New comment by xkriva11 in "Frame – Linux X server in Assembly"

xkriva11 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:25:18 +0000

Reminds me this meme: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HNIjjQQasAA77yl.jpg

Native Raspberry Pi Version of the Oberon System 3

xkriva11 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:27:39 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem3Native/releases/tag/2026-04-10

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736698

Points: 12

# Comments: 0

New comment by xkriva11 in "Bandit: A 32bit baremetal computer that runs Color Forth [video]"

xkriva11 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:57:44 +0000

Practice: https://pavel-krivanek.github.io/colorType/

New comment by xkriva11 in "Bandit: A 32bit baremetal computer that runs Color Forth [video]"

xkriva11 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:36:48 +0000

That's cool, but why not use the native colorForth keyboard layout?

https://www.ultratechnology.com/editor/dvorak.jpg

New comment by xkriva11 in "Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough"

xkriva11 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:48:03 +0000

Talking about Self... https://github.com/pavel-krivanek/Selfie

...but the infinite desktop is still missing there.

Selfie: Self-like environment with TiddlyWiki-style saving

xkriva11 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:34:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/pavel-krivanek/Selfie

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47260892

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by xkriva11 in "Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough"

xkriva11 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:19:09 +0000

To add to this, a quote from an article about the editor ed:

It’s important to realize that in ed you were usually editing a file you had already printed beforehand. If you only wanted to fix a few small things in a multi-page listing, you simply entered the corrections in ed on the relevant lines, added something here and there, and at the same time you would just write the simple minor fixes directly into the printout by hand-without having to tediously retype everything.

You had the files on paper, which is a very pleasant and ergonomic medium for reading. You can literally surround yourself with it, cover your desk, and easily move your eyes between dozens of functions. If you learn to keep order and stay oriented in that mountain of paper, you can be very effective.

Moreover, from an ergonomic point of view you wouldn’t be doing badly at all. Printed paper in natural light is definitely easier on the eyes than low-refresh-rate screens in the years that followed. Paper lets you quickly add notes, sketch a little graph, basically work in a very natural way - one people were used to back then from the moment they first held a crayon.

Most of the time a programmer isn’t writing code but reading it. In that respect, people back then may actually have had it better than we do today. When it did come to writing, the only truly more complicated part was essentially making corrections. The history of everything you’d done was right there on paper. I don’t want to idealize the way they worked back then, but all of this explains how they were able to work effectively even with such primitive tools.

New comment by xkriva11 in "Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough"

xkriva11 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:00:39 +0000

The paper printouts on the table are a kind of simple spatial browser. Thanks to this, we have UNIX (at least it explains how they were able to create anything at all with just a teletype back then).

New comment by xkriva11 in "Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough"

xkriva11 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:44:31 +0000

From a conceptual point of view, browsing code is like browsing a fractal. Tools must take this into account.

Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough

xkriva11 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:59:43 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.lorenzano.eu/smalltalks-browser-unbeatable-yet-not-enough/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47245324

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by xkriva11 in "ZXsheet"

xkriva11 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:04:17 +0000

ZXsheet is a full-featured spreadsheet application for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum written in just 10 lines of BASIC.

ZXsheet

xkriva11 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:04:17 +0000

Article URL: https://bunsen.itch.io/zxsheet-sinclair-zx-spectrum-by-matthew-begg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216932

Points: 1

# Comments: 1