"I want to be able to do Y" is a good starting point. Not how. Not details. Just I have this need. After that, collaborate to build the solution that really does the job.

Hey Ninja Blender Recipe, the light on the front doesn't work like the label claims. Shows solid purple, ready to go, yea! Press the button, it shows solid red, needs to charge, boo. Then switches right back to solid purple, everything's good. Lies, I tell you. Lies!

I always keep my grade 7/8 teacher's advice in mind. "An ex is a has been, and a spurt is a drip under pressure."

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There is a ton of stuff there to turn off!

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Somewhere along the way, our industry took a terribly wrong turn and we ended up with packaged apps as utilities instead of an empowering personal medium. This choice had such a devastating power that today people paid to program do not even conceive of building their own tools

In November of 1986, v1.0 of GemStone/S shipped. It was announced at that year's OOPSLA conference. 38 years later and it's still going strong.

Hey, Amazon! "Something went wrong" is semantically equivalent to "it didn't work". Both are shitty explanations. What the **** is the problem??!

I love it! And, I strongly suspect that it's accurate.

It's a good idea to record *what* was discussed/agreed, but even more important is to capture the *why*. Understanding why things are is essential for continuity & coherence and for guiding when we can change direction.

I don't agree with this, and I strongly suspect no Smalltalker does. Anyone who argues that one tool is all you need really doesn't understand tools. No one would say that about cutting implements or any other tool. Use all the tools whenever each is appropriate.

Businesses should use commodity / off the shelf software whenever they can. Otherwise, they are working on something other than the things important to their business. (But, if you have to modify it, you probably shouldn't.)

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Smalltalk programmers understand 100% of their language's syntax, because it has so little syntax. And they can easily find anything in their "standard library". So, they spend their mental energy on the problem not the tools.

39 years ago at OOPSLA 1986, GemStone/S v1.0 was announced. 39 years later it's still going strong. gemtalksystems.com