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Archive for October 1st, 2025

Question got closed in May 2025 due to bureaucrazy: Sites for beginning Delphi programmers – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/01

The whole idea of “community questions” was to create collective topics or references about important material without gaining any “points”.

Stack Exchange has left that concept in the dark by closing questions like this 2010 one that still contains relevant links: [Wayback/Archive] Sites for beginning Delphi programmers – Stack Overflow

The next step by their moderators is to delete the question, which will lose the valuable material forever.

Stack Exchange also dislikes humour.

And Embarcadero keeps deleting useful sites.

So for posterity, here is the question plus answers in full, amended with archived versions of each link when still available (I used † to mark the dead ones):

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Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Pingback, Software Development, Stackoverflow | 1 Comment »

Jip van den Toorn | de Volkskrant – Vrijwilliger (1 oktober 2025)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/01

In aanloop naar de verkiezingen:  [WaybackSave/Archive] Jip van den Toorn | de Volkskrant over een vrijwilliger:

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Posted in Awareness, Development, Hosting, Software Development, Web Development | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

Steve Troughton-Smith: (paraphrased) ChatGPT can be OK for translating ObjectiveC to Swift

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/01

[Wayback/Archive] Steve Troughton-Smith: “I’m sure everybody is sick of …” – Mastodon

I’m sure everybody is sick of hearing about ChatGPT by now, but one OP feature it has is the capability to translate code between different programming languages, for example from Objective-C to Swift (or vice versa). An incredible accelerant, if nothing else. This was indeed the final push I needed to get @broadcastsapp over the finish line on its migration, and Broadcasts v3.1 doesn’t have a single line of ObjC left 🫡

–jeroen

Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, ChatGPT, Development, GPT-3, ObjectiveC, Software Development, Swift | Leave a Comment »