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1. Xerz! :blobcathearttrans: (xerz@fedi.xerz.one)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 06:40:37 JST Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:

   *opens Cuis Smalltalk*

   “hey, it might look pretty ugly, but it looks less ugly than it used to and the ideas seem fancy”

   *proceeds to read quotes from Morphic (co-creator?) dev John Maloney and actual Alan Kay prasing its aesthetics*

   wha- :blobcatverifiedfake:

   • Xerz! :blobcathearttrans: (xerz@fedi.xerz.one)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 06:40:30 JST Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:

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     owowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowo

   • Xerz! :blobcathearttrans: (xerz@fedi.xerz.one)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 06:40:31 JST Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:

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     (I feel like loading into variables vs streams is already stepping into needless duplicity lmao)

   • Xerz! :blobcathearttrans: (xerz@fedi.xerz.one)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 06:40:32 JST Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:

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     Resources I'm using for Smalltalk syntax
     
     CSE 341: Smalltalk intro (from the University of Washington): https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse341/04wi/lectures/16-smalltalk-intro.html
     Summary of syntax (from the Cuis book): https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/Summary-of-Syntax.html
   • Xerz! :blobcathearttrans: (xerz@fedi.xerz.one)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 06:40:33 JST Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:

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     am galaxy brain 🧠

   • Xerz! :blobcathearttrans: (xerz@fedi.xerz.one)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 06:40:33 JST Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:

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     I did get a byte array with image data, so that’s goodgood, but I’m gonna go a step further and use a file stream…

     related neat read: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=c93fukpVINA

   • Xerz! :blobcathearttrans: (xerz@fedi.xerz.one)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 06:40:34 JST Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:

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     So, there’s no menu or documentation anywhere on how to set a wallpaper for a Cuis world.

     I might just figure it out on my own anyway :blobcateyes:

   • Xerz! :blobcathearttrans: (xerz@fedi.xerz.one)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 06:40:35 JST Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:

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     “The user ability to understand the system is one of the major concern of the Cuis’ community.“

     so how is fedi not all into Cuis yet :blobcatthinkingglare:

   • Xerz! :blobcathearttrans: (xerz@fedi.xerz.one)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 06:40:35 JST Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:

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     OK, I have to say: it’s still not ideal. You can still have compiled methods that I don’t know how to introspect with prettified code like in the System Browser. You can still mess up too hard with the UI itself without any undo option. And on top of that, you lose the ability to save morphs into files (unless I’m missing something)…

     But it feels like it’s the closest any environment has been from being truly user-programmable imho. I’m actually not struggling too much to understand it, just asking it to show me how it works, and copying stuff around to make it my own.

     I feel like giving this one a 7/10.

   • Xerz! :blobcathearttrans: (xerz@fedi.xerz.one)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 06:40:36 JST Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:

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     you can check what I’m talking about at https://cuis.st/

   • Xerz! :blobcathearttrans: (xerz@fedi.xerz.one)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 06:41:06 JST Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:

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     oh hey would you look at that, I did it :blobcatdab: :blobcatdab: :blobcatdab: