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UKSTUG Meeting: David Long - Recovering the Design of Existing Software: SecureCell, SageTea and the Road Back to Pharo - 26 August 2026

by UK Smalltalk

Much of today's software is locked inside large, evolving code bases where the original design has gradually been lost. What if we could automatically recover that design, represent it using a language-independent application model, and then allow a modern runtime to render, evolve and maintain the application independently of its original implementation language? This talk presents that vision through SecureCell, a secure communications appliance developed by XTC Mobile for organizations that require privacy, security and local control. David Long will demonstrate how Graphify analyzes existing applications to recover their architectural structure, how this information is transformed into the SageTea Canonical Application Model, and how the runtime can automatically generate user interfaces, navigation and application behavior from that model. Rather than treating software as language-specific source code, the emphasis is on recovering and preserving the application's semantic design. Finally, David will discuss why this architectural approach naturally leads back to Pharo Smalltalk, and why we believe Smalltalk remains an ideal environment for building the next generation of language-independent development tools and self-hosting runtime systems. The session will include a live demonstration of SecureCell and an overview of the current work on the Eclipse SageTea Runtime. David Long is the creator of the Eclipse SageTea project and CEO of XTC Mobile, where he leads the development of secure mobile communications solutions for government, defence, telecommunications carriers and regulated enterprises. A Smalltalk developer for more than thirty years, David is currently developing the next generation of the Eclipse SageTea Runtime—an open-source platform for language-independent application modeling, AI-assisted software modernization and long-term software evolution. His current work focuses on Graphify, canonical application models, runtime architecture and bringing the SageTea Runtime to Pharo Smalltalk. This will be an online meeting. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/313860371/ ) to receive the meeting details

Aug. 19, 2026

WG: [ANN] Squeak 6.1 released! Save the Date! Squeak Release Party on Sep 2nd!

by Thiede, Christoph

________________________________ Von: Marcel Taeumel (H) via Squeak-dev <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> Gesendet: Montag, 10. August 2026 13:38 Uhr An: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org>; Open Smalltalk Virtual Machine Development Discussion <vm-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org>; beginners(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org <beginners(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> Cc: Taeumel, Marcel <marcel.taeumel(a)hpi.de> Betreff: [ANN] Squeak 6.1 released! Save the Date! Squeak Release Party on Sep 2nd! Hi all -- We are happy to announce the release of Squeak 6.1! Save the Date! There will be a Squeak Release Party on September 2nd, 2026! If you want to, bring a short demo along. More info will follow soon. Go ahead, visit our website [1], experience our interactive release notes [2], and try it out for yourself [3]! Thank you all for the contributions! :-) Best, Marcel and Christoph (on behalf of the Squeak Community) [1] https://www.squeak.org/ [2] https://squeak.org/release_notes/6.1/ [3] https://files.squeak.org/6.1/Squeak6.1-23976-64bit/ P.S.: We became just recently aware of some 32-bit hiccups in the OpenSmalltalk VM on Linux and Windows. We will look into it and update the Squeak bundles accordingly as soon as a newer OSVM is released.

Aug. 19, 2026

Looking for my next Smalltalk opportunity

by Sebastian Jordan

Hi everyone, After almost seven years being part of the Pharo community, I wanted to reach out here because this community has been an important part of my professional journey. I am currently finishing my PhD at INRIA, France, and I am looking for my next opportunity as a software developer. After completing my PhD, I will be moving back to LATAM, Bolivia, and I am looking for a fully remote position starting around mid-October or November. I would love to continue working with Smalltalk. Most of my experience is with Pharo, but I am open to any Smalltalk dialect and different kinds of projects. I am also open to full-time positions, contracts, or consulting work. Over the years, I have contributed to several parts of the Pharo ecosystem. Before my PhD, I worked as an R&D software engineer at INRIA on Pharo, where I developed tools for code analysis and transformation, contributed to Moose and pharo-ai. I have mentored students through Google Summer of Code since 2021. I have continued to work on programming languages and developer tools throughout my PhD, focusing on runtime-related issues, instrumentation, profiling (dynamic analysis), and memory analysis. Solving difficult problems, designing clear object-oriented systems, writing tests, improving existing codebases through refactoring, and building tools that increase developer productivity are all aspects of software development that I enjoy. I also enjoy working on enterprise applications where maintainability and good design are important. If you know of a team looking for someone with my background, or if you would simply like to discuss possible opportunities, I would be very happy to hear from you. I can also send my CV privately to anyone interested. Thanks everyone for your help, and I hope to continue being part of the Smalltalk community. Best regards, Sebastian JORDAN MONTAÑO

Aug. 5, 2026