If you can't think of a word, just say "I forgot the English word for it."

That way people will think you're bilingual instead of an idiot.

Now is probably a good time to remind everyone that all of Tom Lehrer's songs are currently still available online. Get 'em while you can. tomlehrersongs.com

Topic Mining with gt4llm YouTube video by Glamorous Toolkit

Veit Heller and I had fun pair-programming a first prototype of an LLM-based tool to mine learning topics from the Glamorous Toolkit book.

youtu.be/0OzYpv1FqUQ

Moldable Development in Practice — Patterns for Legacy Modernization • Oscar Nierstrasz • YOW! 2024 YouTube video by GOTO Conferences

My YOW! 2024 tech talk on applying Moldable Development patterns for legacy modernization is now available on YouTube. youtu.be/F_-z0aC7Pnk?...

Very often, the complexity arises from event-driven code. If I could just see more easily the event flow, I would understand the code better. A stack trace in a debugger won't tell you what events led you to the current state.

How to deactivate your X account You can leave X for greener social meadows.

I finally admitted to myself that the old Twitter is gone for good, and I deactivated my account. I don't want to be associated with the contemptible antics of its new boss.
www.theverge.com/24293448/x-t...

A selfie of an ecstatic geek from the front row of a tech conference

Blog post: I wrote up a huge article with photos and takeaways from every session I saw at YOW! this year (which was almost all of them). Thanks to all the speakers, volunteers, and the YOW team for making it happen! www.web-goddess.org/archive/26558

So, Bluesky Has An Extortion Problem An apparent extortion scheme lit up Bluesky the other night. It raises some important questions about whether Bluesky is up to the task of moderation.

Apparently Bluesky has a verification problem. This link was posted on Mastodon ... tedium.co/2024/12/17/b...

Today I gave my last of 3 presentations on “Moldable Development in Practice” at the #YOW24 Australia tour de force of Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney.

You can find a static HTML version of my live demo here: www.oscar.nierstrasz.org/yow2024/

Here's a BlueSky starter pack of all the speakers at #YOW 2024
go.bsky.app/J5rxNeZ

We really, *really* need a proper iPad app for BlueSky!
Oh, wait, BlueSky works just fine in a vanilla web browser. Never mind.

BTW, the previous post was submitted directly from the BlueSky client environment within GT.

Moldable development can be applied to any development task. I author a “slideshow” using a moldable inspector on the live slides, augmented with custom tools. I'll be presenting “Moldable Development in Practice” at Yow! Australia in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney this December.

Busy unfollowing everyone who is busy posting about the orange one.

Let's stop referring to “X”, and call it for what it is: TSMFKAT.

It never ceases to amaze me how advanced technology can make simple things complicated.

It took some fiddling, but I finally managed to add BlueSky to the "follow" list on my GH pages website.

There is also a nice application of moldable exceptions that provide automated fixes for common errors in defining custom views.

Well, normally you would debug your custom views before installing them in the debugger, but you always have the standard debugger as a fallback.

Pattern: Example Object
Problem. How do you create an object in a particular state to start a moldable development task?
Solution. Wrap examples as methods that may evaluate some tests, and return the example.

More details in: #MoldableDevelopment Patterns
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18811

Tip for presenters:
Look at the audience, not at the screen.

Tip for presenters:
Start with your demo.

Moldable exceptions allow you to associate multiple domain-specific views and actions to exceptions in the debugger. You can always switch back to the generic, stack-oriented view if you like.

doi.org/10.1145/3689...

#MoldableDevelopment

The video of my invited talk at #VAMOS2024, “Embracing Software Variability to build Explainable Systems” is now online.
#GlamorousToolkit
youtu.be/KsAq25yT-CU

The video recording of my Keynote presentation on “Moldable Development Patterns” at Smalltalks 2023 in Quilmes, Argentina is now available online:
youtu.be/g4MVyM7Vrn0?... #smalltalks23 #GToolkit

I keep wanting to pronounce “Bluesky” so that it rhymes with “brewski”.

Where is it that old iPhones go to die?

Yes, you can.

Migrating to a new smart phone is getting more and more complicated.

How will Bluesky ever catch up with Mastodon?