Self-interest June 2022

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OurSelf.io April update - TerminalMorph!
by Russell Allen 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

Hi all! Work continues on OurSelf.io at a feverish pace (literally as I got a mild case of Covid - like everyone else!) My immediate aim is to get to a place where the full cycle of Self development can happen without needing a local VM and without having to SSH into the server. The first part of this is building access from within the Self image to the underlying FreeBSD jail so that the developer can use the existing unix tools - git, ssh etc - to sync .self files to GitHub or wherever. If you start a trial now on OurSelf.io you will see a new menu item - New Unix Terminal - which will, as the name suggests, open a morph which is a unix terminal. It is a very basic terminal, just enough for running simple commands and not enough for TUI apps such as vi etc. But with it, I can (if I’m logged in and not just doing a trial) - use the Transporter to file out modules - commit those modules to a git repository - push the commits to GitHub - pull changes - read those changes in via the Transporter I can also build new snapshots, and if I save them as ‘/self/snapshot’ and restart the OurSelf world then the new snapshot will replace the existing one. (I’m thinking of this as temporary, the long term aim is to pull everything into Self so that no one needs know how and on what the image is running. But we’re a way off that) Cheers Russell

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Talk today
by David Harris 06 Jul '22

06 Jul '22

tried to join this Meetup, but was not able to connect for some reason. Can someone public the video when possible? Thanks David

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Self for Mac OS X Tiger?
by Russell Allen 13 Jun '22

13 Jun '22

Hi people, I've been asked offline by Kevin: > Hi, I have an old powerpc mac mini at home that runs 10.4.11 os x.I don't suppose there's a package for 4.3 or 4.4 lurking somewhere on the internet that I can't find? Or was Self always distributed in code form?I've just grabbed a copy of the 4.4 code that has manuals for 4.3 inside that contain instructions for building on Mac with Xcode, which must be roughly contemporary to what I have.Or would 4.4 build OK anyway? I can't try it right now.The new release requires later mac os/Xcode.Thanks for any help you can provide. Anyone happen to have a PPC Mac VM sitting around? Cheers Russell

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UK Smalltalk User Group meeting: Smalltalk and Self hardware - 29 June 2022
by Giovanni Corriga 13 Jun '22

13 Jun '22

For our June meeting, Merik Voswinkel will give us a presentation on Smalltalk and Self hardware with a focus on manycore parallelism and distributed computing. This follows from Jecel Assumpcao Jr's SiliconSqueak presentation at the California Smalltalkers meetup ( https://youtu.be/CfYnzVxdwZE ). Merik will bring us on a tour past 50 years of late bound message passing Smalltalk VMs, Smalltalk RISC processors, David Ungar’s RoarVM, adaptive compilers, concurrent aggregates, clone-reduce, a processor per object, FPGA’s, Morphle Logic, Croquet and Teatime , Wafer Scale Integration, hundred (M1 Ultra), thousands and million cores ASICs, Cuniform, Matroshca Brains and much more in our tourney towards the Wayne Gretzky invention game of inventing the future. If there is time we’ll go burning the Smalltalk disk packs, the intergalactic network GUI and the destiny of computers as intellectual amplifiers for humans pervasively networked worldwide and how we are going to communicate with Aliens. Merik Voswinkel is an independent scientist who build his first transputer supercomputer for Smalltalk after the Byte 1981 Smalltalk issue, build one of the first internet providers, works on SiliconSqueak, wafer scale integrations and Enernet energy computing. This will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up on the Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/286314641/ ).

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Self-interest June 2022