Years ago I played around with the Squeak, Pharo, and Amber Smalltalk implementations. I loved them. The ability to develop applications while they were running was a game-changer. I was blown away by being able to inspect the call-stack during an exception, modify the values in the stack, and then rewind the stack to see if my idea for a fix would work. But... I concluded that no client would allow me to write their application in Smalltalk. So I walked away from Smalltalk. Nowadays, I only write code for myself, as I used to do prior to working as a programmer. Therefore, I'm revisiting Smalltalk :)

I'm doing that thing where after a lot of effort and preparation to achieve a specific result, I need to pull the trigger to get to the next stage, and I'm second-guessing everything. Ugh. I need to just do it, I know. I wish the secong-guessing step would just not happen anymore, given how annoying it is. But, here it is again. As Pooh would say "Oh, bother."

What do you do when you can't sleep, @dave

Me too!

Can I send this to you without following you?

@ChooseYourFate start game

#clownworld

I created a Nix (NixOS) package for the Gossip nostr client (@Gossip Client) :) It's included in my Nix flake mono-repo, therefore running it is a matter of executing: nix run github:emmanuelrosa/erosanix#gossip Since the client loads a number of libraries at runtime (using dlopen), I'm not sure if I've declared all of the dependencies. So far, it's working well.

#notaboutnostrorbitcoin

For the 1st time in a long time, I had to boot my NixOS laptop from a prior generation. It seems I'm having a problem with Linux 6.4 that's causing a kernel panic, so I'm now back at Linux 6.3. #nixos

I recently read Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-glass." What a treat! I got a good laugh from the word play and I like how the author was able to say a lot using few words, avoiding long-winded descriptions of the scenery and such. It does require reading between the lines, but that made it a more enjoyable read. I'm glad I decided to get back into reading fiction.

#Zapathon

Fortune cookie: Your hard work is about to pay off in an impactful way. Me: Fuck yeah!!!

When I tap on a note in #amethyst and then press the back button it scrolls to the top of the list, showing the newest note. I swear it used to return to the same position in the list.

I get this amazing sense of gratification when I sit down and write some code for a few hours, and then when I compile and run it... it works on the first try! That's not what happened to me yesterday, but I love it when it does :)

What exactly is a Zapathon? I know what Zaps are, and it looks like a Zapathon is when the god of lightning rains down on Nostr, but I'm still unclear about what it is.