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The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

#trivia
#commonlisp
#smalltalk
#ai
#techbooks
#programming
#forth
#pharo
#Wordle
#wordle1742

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AI-Generated Books, Forth & Pharo, and Why I'm Back with Common Lisp

A notebook-style essay about stumbling upon AI-generated tech books (HiTeX Press, "Robert Johnson"), the realization that beautiful design doesn't equal working code, and the journey through Smalltalk chaos to the quiet stability of Common Lisp.

Includes thoughts on:
- The "end of the internet age"
- Why I avoid publicly traded companies
- AI in music, photography, and content moderation
- Why a REPL beats bouncing windows

Fake books → real lessons → building my own tools with CLOS and CLOG.

Read here in German:
https://mahamind7.blogspot.com/2026/03/angriff-der-ai-text-2.html

#CommonLisp #Smalltalk #AI #TechBooks #Programming #Forth #Pharo

The Smalltalk System Browser has survived for 40 years.
That’s not an accident: it solves the context problem extremely well.
But the real friction in modern Smalltalk may lie elsewhere: the lack of composition between IDE tools.
Some thoughts ↓

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

#Smalltalk #Pharo #Programming cc @pharoproject

RE: https://aoir.social/@kdriscoll/116054489061768813

Sad to read the illustrator of the legendary Smalltalk balloon cover for Byte magazine, Robert Tinney, died.

#Smalltalk #Pharo