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Esteban Lorenzano @estebanlm@social.smallworks.eu

· 7mo ago

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@mastodon.social

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Smalltalk’s Browser: Unbeatable, Yet Not Enough

The four-pane System Browser has shaped Smalltalk development for forty years. It’s still brilliant at providing context. But the real problem may not be the browser itself—it may be the lack of composition between the tools that surround it.

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Esteban Lorenzano @estebanlm@social.smallworks.eu

· 7mo ago

here I am, taking the hard-line #selfhost path, after #hetzner announced their massive raise 😅 .

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Esteban Lorenzano @estebanlm@social.smallworks.eu

· 10mo ago

Replying to

@gnome@floss.social I’ve become one of the #FriendsOfGNOME too. Really, this is just to make it official, because as I see it, GNOME has been a friend of mine for a long time already 😜 #GNOME #OpenSource #Linux

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Esteban Lorenzano @estebanlm@social.smallworks.eu

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@kirtai@tech.lgbt @pharoproject@mastodon.social yes, whisker browser had very good ideas on it, I liked it a lot.

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Esteban Lorenzano @estebanlm@social.smallworks.eu

· 9mo ago

Hey fediverse! In these days of microblogging and fast-moving, flash-by images, I’m feeling more and more old-school, so I’ve just started a new blog!
I want to talk about @pharoproject@mastodon.social, #Linux, and #programming in general.
(Yes, I’m aware that I could just increase the max post size on my instance to write everything here, but after all, this is a microblogging platform. I don’t want to annoy you with my ramblings.)
You can find it here: https://blog.lorenzano.eu/lets-start-a-blog/
Stay tuned! (if you want 😆)

blog.lorenzano.eu

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Esteban Lorenzano @estebanlm@social.smallworks.eu

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@uksmalltalk@mastodon.social Look ma! I’m at YouTube! (With one of the worst accents in history, but well…)

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Esteban Lorenzano @estebanlm@social.smallworks.eu

· 18mo ago

Replying to

@carla what a fedi-find ! Hola lider !

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Esteban Lorenzano @estebanlm@social.smallworks.eu

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@offray@mastodon.social @uksmalltalk@mastodon.social btw, I couldn't arrive to the mutabit link to take a look...

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Esteban Lorenzano @estebanlm@social.smallworks.eu

· 12mo ago

That’s me ;) https://mastodon.social/@uksmalltalk/115252418727696451

RT: https://mastodon.social/users/uksmalltalk/statuses/115252418727696451

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Esteban Lorenzano @estebanlm@social.smallworks.eu

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@offray@mastodon.social @uksmalltalk@mastodon.social Hi! Nice to see you too, I miss your points of view around... 😊 Human workflows are like fingerprints: no two are exactly alike, even though they often have a lot in common. Every tool proposes a workflow pattern that you can either adapt to your own way of working—or not. In my opinion, the best approach is to choose a tool whose workflow has the greatest amount of common ground with your own, while also being flexible enough to adapt to your personal patterns. I'm working on my own take on this: Pulsar. However, it's a tool (intended) for power programming, which I don't think is what you do. I see you more as an explorer than a builder (or perhaps implementer?), to borrow gaming theory terms. That's what I try to be, anyway. 😉 I presented the first iteration of it at #ESUG2026, but since I went straight into the holiday season afterwards, I haven't had time to write about it yet. I do have a half-finished blog post, though, so I'll see if I can get it out it soon.

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