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sswezey··on Squeak 6.1
I opened the Squeak image on my Mac, and everything looks good that I checked.
sswezey··on Squeak 6.1
Same, I've been tracking this and Pharo for high-DPI fixes. Pharo is working on a new graphics stack that is intended to address this as well, but until then no high-DPI support.
sswezey··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
I'd imagine the Google issue may be to the fact that your URL looks like it would be porn.
sswezey··on Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
Idk, its never stopped working for me for the past 10+ years. And Firefox has additionally always supported ctrl-n and ctrl-p working in the address bar for suggestions while Chrome has never supported this
sswezey··on Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)
https://archive.ph/5RJ2V
sswezey··on Apple announces American Manufacturing Program
Do you have more information about this engineering culture of CPC?
sswezey··on Sign in with Google in Chrome
Google _is_ an ad agency
sswezey··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
Do you have a website or link for this?
sswezey··on Timeshare owner? The Mexican drug cartels want you
This is exactly what my lawyer told me when I "inherited" a timeshare. I never signed a contract and that I should just stop paying. We tried to sell the timeshare first, but that was as much of a scam as buying one. I read somewhere a joke that it's the same scummy people selling you the timeshares during the day and moonlighting as agents to help people get rid of timeshares at night.
sswezey··on Insights after 11 years with Datomic [video]
Correct. It's free, but not open-source.
sswezey··on What you can get out of a high-quality font
Houston Mono has also been indefinitely delayed...
sswezey··on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
I really want the touch id from iPad. It's so much faster and reliable that face id. I think together would be a winning combo, but given the option, I'd take the ipad touch id over face id.
sswezey··on Reclaim the Stack
I particularly like this moniker for such human-scale, "digital gardening"-type software: https://hobbit.software/
sswezey··on Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
https://archive.ph/4UoZX
sswezey··on CIEL Is an Extended Lisp
Have you seen Jank? It’s a Clojure dialect being written in C++ and designed for interop with C++ instead of the JVM.

https://jank-lang.org/

sswezey··on Null-Restricted and Nullable Types
The formatted JEP link: https://openjdk.org/jeps/8316779
sswezey··on Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records?
What do you mean the level was perfectly flat vs elliptical? The surface of the pool? I'm confused
sswezey··on Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon
Amazon did this too. No more assigned desks, come in 3+ days a week, and only have desks for 60% of people. Sterile desks that have to be cleaned off at the end of the day, fighting for desks because no one is actually coming in on Mondays or Fridays, and desks basically on top of each other.
sswezey··on Use a work journal
I've done analog for years and tried to do digital this year. I switched back to analog. With digital, I tended to just dump everything whereas with analog I reflected and edited for concision. The things I typed I forgot; writing things down I remembered. It's much the same as taking notes - the act of physically writing helps "set" the information.

I know a lot of people will say to do digital for ease of searching. I find that if I write it down, I'm much more likely to remember and not need to search in the first place. And digital I think it's easier to get lost in the ways to try and optimize the process with a file, format, editor, plugin, method, etc. With paper, I have some paper that I can write in whatever format I want at the time.

I use these every year for taking notes: https://www.leuchtturm1917.com/weekly-planner-and-notebook-2... . I've been using the A5, but will probably go up to the B5+ for next year. I've been using these for the past 7 years.

sswezey··on 'The big problem is water': UK ebike owners plagued by failing motors
An ebike can be for both pleasure and exercise. Most ebikes are pedelecs - you're still cycling, you're just getting a boost. They aren't loud, you just either get somewhere faster or with less effort. I find an ebike to be more pleasurable than a regular bike 90% of the time.

Just because you're doing less work, doesn't mean you're doing no work. An ebike can provide mobility for people who aren't in perfect shape. Ebikes can also allow you to use your bike for more errands, like getting groceries that people would otherwise not do on a regular bike.

sswezey··on Ask HN: 30y After 'On Lisp', PAIP etc., Is Lisp Still "Beating the Averages"?
REPL-based development doesn't require typing directly into the REPL. It's usually a text editor side-by-side with the REPL. Most LISP IDEs have a command to send forms over to the REPL to be evaluated. In this manner, you develop your code iteratively with the REPL almost as if having a conversation with the REPL. You try a form, and if it doesn't work, you change and iterate, line by line of your code. Through this "conversation", you've gone from a single form, to an entire function that works, than a module. You build from the bottom up. There is no, code-compile-test cycle, it's always instantaneous. With some REPLs (like Common Lisp), you can even break from an exception, update your code and resume the code from the point before the exception. It's much more than the REPL most people are used to with Python or Ruby.
sswezey··on Try Clojure
Yea, Cursive is the best by far for doing Java interop. It is really good.
sswezey··on Meta used monolithic architecture to ship Threads in only five months
I remember reading somewhere it was about 20 engineers. They took a picture of the whole team when it launched.
sswezey··on First beta of Nintendo Switch emulator Suyu goes live
Is the name intentionally a pun on sue you?
sswezey··on Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana
What do you use to undervolt your GPU?
sswezey··on Helios: A distribution of Illumos powering the Oxide Rack
Do you have a write-up of your SmartOS and/or OpenBSD set up(s)?
sswezey··on Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
As a note, the zed editor team were the creators of the tree-sitter project
sswezey··on Orthic Shorthand – Write as fast as you type
Also Shavian was designed around British sounds that makes using for Americans cumbersome
sswezey··on [dead]
JetBrains is finally working on a first-party Rust IDE.
sswezey··on The unix69 keyboard layout: nerdy and nice
I tried some mechanical keyboards back in the day for the "benefits". I never got it and my hands would be strained from typing on the high travel, high resistance keys. The Apple Keyboard (I use the UK/English International) is so much easier on my hands. They're easy to find, well-supported and robust.
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