Monthly Archives: January 2021

“Reasoning about code” is a scam

Posted on 2021-01-28 by Graham

Another day, another post telling me to do something, or not do something, or adopt some technology, or not adopt some technology, or whatever it is that they want me to do, because it makes it easier to “reason about … Continue reading →

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Ubiquitous computing

Posted on 2021-01-25 by Graham

I, along with many others, have written about the influence of Xerox PARC on Apple. The NeXT workstation was a great example of getting an approximation to the Smalltalk concept out using off-the-shelf parts, and Jobs often presaged iCloud with … Continue reading →

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GNUstep development on LIVEstep

Posted on 2021-01-20 by Graham

LIVEstep is a GNUstep desktop on a FreeBSD live CD, and it comes with the GNUstep developer tools including ProjectCenter. This video is a “Hello, World” walkthrough using ProjectCenter on LIVEstep. PC is much more influenced by the NeXT Project … Continue reading →

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Data curation during a pandemic

Posted on 2021-01-14 by Graham

Here’s what I’ve been working on (with others, of course) since February.

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Novel bean incoming

Posted on 2021-01-02 by Graham

You may remember in July I updated the open source Bean word processor to work with then-latest Xcode and macOS. Over the last couple of days I’ve added iCloud Drive support (obviously only if the app is associated with an … Continue reading →

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