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I started a new job in September. Today, the company gets a new name: GemTalk Systems is now GemDB. They've been around for 40 (!) years.

Jon Reid

@qualitycoding.org

My career has been about increasing developer joy and lowering the cost of change. Those are two sides of the same coin. The same principles that lower the cost of change also make for happier coders.

21/10/26, 10:31 pm0 reposts0 likes

Jon Reid

@qualitycoding.org

Now I'm doing QE on an object database where changing your code doesn't mean fighting your schema. No object <-> database translation! …It's pretty slick, and devs will definitely be happier. (Remember, the things that help human coding also help agentic coding.)

Jon Reid

@qualitycoding.org

When I got my Master's degree, I really wanted to work in Smalltalk. When Apple rebuilt itself around NeXTStep, I got the next best thing: working in Objective-C. It doesn't have the same "always running" quality of Smalltalk, but it does have real message-based OO.

Jon Reid

@qualitycoding.org

Now, after all these years… I get to work _on_ Smalltalk! If you check out the new company website, you may be surprised to see Python instead. Cool stuff is on the way. www.gemdb.com

gemdb.comGemDB — Your code is the schema | Transactional object databaseGemDB is a transactional object database. Objects, classes and methods live in the database, Python runs inside it, and schema changes are code changes. Try GemDB Code free in VS Code.