Esteban A. Maringolo

Like all of you, I am mourning Charlie Kirk. He stood up for his beliefs and died for them at 31, wearing a T‑shirt that read "Freedom." At 31, my life was taken from me for standing up for what I believed in. And Charlie helped me get it back. He never took credit for it but he played a BIG role in my freedom in many ways. Last year alone, when President Trump won the election, he asked Charlie what was the #1 thing he could do for him and Charlie replied: "Free Ross." And in the days leading to my release, Charlie advocated for a full pardon. He did this and more without expectations of me. I wish there was something I could do to help Charlie get his life back. But there isn't, and I'm heartbroken. Charlie, I will always be grateful to you. Thank you for all you did for me and for our country. I pray for you and your beautiful family. Rest in peace.

Wake up, Neo...

SQL is undefeated

If you wanna know how overengineering in web dev is going: Yesterday someone asked me how I built my startup and I made up an extremely convoluted tech stack While in fact it's built with just PHP and jQuery At this point over 800 people have bookmarked the tweet

These are password rules I can understand.

men will literally buy used thinkpad and install arch linux instead of going to therapy

For those experimenting with @instantiations VAST 2024's Unicode and Database support, check out my latest post with an overview of how to get started with some example code. instantiations.com/news/continuin…

SSR is the old new. Black is the new black.

2024 marks a transformative year for Instantiations as we expand into Fintech services and prepare to launch VAST Platform 2024. Check out the full story at: instantiations.com/news/progress-… #Instantiations #Fintech #VASTPlatform #StrategicGrowth

I can't stand Tailwind's way of doing CSS.

Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

@johanbrichau I totally agree. I'll take `html`, or even `canvas`, over `aWACanvas` any day. What I don't want, and I guess this is a pet peeve of mine, is to read `aSeasideCanvas` in their place. Having found a couple of these spurred me to rant about it. 😅

@emaringolo I used a Boolean as an example. I would use a type-revealing name only when there is no useful intention-revealing name I can give it. E.g. ‘startIndex’ over ‘anInteger’ or ‘html’ over ‘aWAHtmlCanvas’.

"Naming Smalltalk method parameters", a short blog that I hope will get me blogging again after a long time of wanting to, but not writing (and thus not sharing) my thoughts. dev.to/emaringolo/nam…

@johanbrichau Boolean parameters are something else IMO, I don't have a strong opinion on `isWriteable` over `writeable` as a parameter name, but I prefer `writeable` over `isWriteable` as an instVar name.

@emaringolo I often prefer intention-revealing names over type-revealing names. Instead of ‘writeable: aBoolean’, I would use ‘writeable: isWriteable’ because later on in the method body, you then have ‘isWriteable ifTrue:[…]’ instead of ‘aBoolean ifTrue:[…]’

@seaside_st @TorstenAstares I left a comment in his blog post explaining that with some examples. I hope it gets public once approved.

@TorstenAstares Seaside dispatchers are intended to register handlers in a tree-path. It is not to be mistaken with the path specifications inside a REST handler, which consumes the path part that remains.

An article from Joachim about @seaside_st who is using this framework since many years for his Kontolino! online service but now also moves on with REST APIs. joachimtuchel.wordpress.com/2024/02/02/sea…

@campibara @sebastianconcpt @pharoproject @NorbertHartl @TorstenAstares @giolvani I could never find my way around GT, not to mention that it is extremely unresponsive. I tried it several times but ended giving up on it.

@sebastianconcpt @pharoproject @NorbertHartl @TorstenAstares @emaringolo @giolvani If you liked that, you have to take a look at this. It's a complete immersion inside Pharo. gtoolkit.com

Turns out @pharoproject traits are fantastic. I've quickly tried them for github.com/sebastianconce… as @NorbertHartl and @TorstenAstares suggested and... well, 2h later it worked. Smalltalk isn't great or what? cc/ @emaringolo @giolvani

Everybody who uses command line database clients (mysql, psql, sqlite, sqlcl, ...) must check out this repo: github.com/okbob/pspg Seriously.

@dHeremans @johanbrichau My very same thought. Rather than what is it I'd ask how it tastes.

Put your own name in the prompt of an AI picture generator…. What even is this???

It's been an amazing week at #Smalltalks2023, meeting friends, colleagues and customers; learning new things and what others are doing. Thanks @fast_arg for the organization of this event, looking forward to attend next year!

#smalltalks2023 Continuing VAST's Unicode Transition: Database Support by @emaringolo