[Cuis-dev] These strange days (and our community)

[Leam Hall]

Juan, et al.

I am an Apprentice Ruby coder, and a lot of Ruby documents praise
Smalltalk. They are not very subtle about suggesting an awareness of
Smalltalk would help one's Ruby skills. Thus I found Cuis. I bought two
Smalltalk books, "Smalltalk-80" (Goldberg) and "Smalltak Objects, and
Design" (Liu).

Unfortunately, I am not able to mentally bridge the gap between the old
books and the current Cuis. I have done a lot of text based coding, even my
Ruby is written in Vim and run in a shell window. Part of the difficulty is
personal, I'm trying to adjust to the GUI. Sadly, I'm still trying, the
learning is slow for me.   :)

I appreciate what you and the others are doing. As I have time and
understanding, I will learn more. If there is a movement to unify the Cuis
and Smalltalk documentation, it might help those of us who come to this
without a Computer Science background.

Thank you for Cuis.

Leam

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 10:55 AM Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Coronavirus is hitting hard in many places. And places not hit hard yet
> are getting ready for it. This has been affecting daily life for
> everyone. Let's keep in mind that the top priorities are to take care of
> ourselves and others, following orders and advice from local authorities
> and the WHO. Many people are facing extreme hardships, including health
> care and emergency workers, people who got ill and their loved ones.
> Let's hope it turns out to the best for them, and let's help them when
> possible.
>
> For the rest of us, for the majority of the world, we just need to be
> very careful.
>
> Many people are not able to work at their job or attend to school. Some
> of us are lucky enough to be able to keep working from our homes, almost
> as usual. In any case, for a lot of us (I know, we are the most lucky
> ones), the biggest challenge is to fight our own fear, anguish and
> boredom. Let's spend good time with family and friends, talking, playing
> games, whatever we can do without leaving our homes. Let's try to get
> some exercise. This is great not only for the body, but also for the
> mind. My wife Lucía and my daughters Sofía and Diana have been dancing
> to some youtube videos. I must join them next time! Some TV is OK, but
> too much of it is not. Get enough rest. Take some time to be calm and
> quiet. Meditate. Spend time learning and practicing stuff you love.
> Maybe we can make the most of this time by focusing on programming
> projects.
>
> So, use Cuis. Play with Cuis. Learn with Cuis. Learn about Cuis. Feel
> free to share your thoughts and feelings here. We are a community. Many
> of us have never meet in person, but we still share a lot. We are a
> bunch of friends, even if it might be a little different kind of
> friendship.
>
> Let me tell how all this is going for me.
>
> In Argentina, we are in a preventive quarantine. We still don't have
> many cases, but we (Argentina) want to flatten the exponential growth
> from the start. My kids are at home, as schools are closed. The school
> gave them a lot of stuff to "research", so this is becoming a kind of
> home schooling! Lucía and I are spending time helping them with that.
> Fortunately, we and our larger families are all healthy. We keep in
> touch. We are both also doing home office for work. So we are quite
> busy! Our home has a nice backyard and the weather is nice, so we are
> able to spend time outside.
>
> I spend some time doing Cuis. I know I'm being quite slow in answering
> email and several of you are waiting an answer on some particular topic.
> I apologize for this, and I promise I'll eventually get to each one of
> them. I have also been working a few hours over several weeks on
> VectorGraphics and TrueType. I have some updates to push, hopefully
> today, and will tell in another email.
>
> Thank you all for being around, helping Cuis grow, recoding videos and
> spreading the word, or simply sharing this space. Everybody, please feel
> free to share your feelings and thoughts.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Juan Vuletich
> www.cuis-smalltalk.org
> https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev
> https://github.com/jvuletich
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-vuletich-75611b3
> @JuanVuletich
>
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