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Louis Pilfold

2 months

Other than the $74 I made from streaming last month I live entirely off of donations! If you appreciate Gleam please support me on GitHub sponsors, asking your employer to do so too, and sharing this message!

Sponsor @lpil on GitHub Sponsors

Gleam: Making type safe programming a production ready reality on the Erlang virtual machine!

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Louis Pilfold

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2 years

Gleam is finally a GitHub language!!!!

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9 months

@TwisterFilm @jwsal Get a new insult

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@davesnx Hard to learn, very high memory usage, slow to compile, slow to boot, not amazing tooling, unstable foundation with very large breaking changes in the language, some baggage from Java, stories of horrific behaviour from noted community members.

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Louis Pilfold

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3 months

iterm2 is adding a feature where it sends everything you type to the OpenAI API? Are you kidding me?

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 years

@therealdaneel Because the resulting settlement payments would make the fired employees set for life?

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Louis Pilfold

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6 months

Well look at that

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The Gleam programming language

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2 years

An Animorphs book cover with DHH morphing into Uncle Bob

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Louis Pilfold

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2 years

@road_meh @DrJewelKling @JuliaFiles @DrNatStrand @LisaLemond @AmyOxentenkoMD @British_Airways As a programmer that idle lack of consideration is the definition of sexism

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

6 years

The most popular programming language in the world is a functional reactive programming language with no side effects.

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

2 years

Exciting news: Today was my last full day at Nomio. I'm now working full time on Gleam!!! 💖 Thank you to all the Gleam sponsors for making this possible. I am so grateful for your support and I can't wait to show you what's coming next ✨

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

3 years

Your pride and passion make it easier for corporations to extract value from you, to the detriment of your health

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3 years

Offend a programmer with a single tweet

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

27 days

@ChShersh FP is just as bad with functor, monad, monoid, applicative, monadplus, comonad, traverable, alternative, kleisli, witness, etc.

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

9 days

I cannot stress how huge this is! 100% type safe database access in Gleam! One of the last pieces of the puzzle 💜

Giacomo Cavalieri

@giacomo_cava

10 days

I hear you wanted type safe SQL in Gleam, so I’m really happy to share my latest package Squirrel 🐿️ You can write your SQL queries in plain old .sql files and Squirrel will take care of the rest! No hand-writing decoders, no compromises on type safety and it just works™️

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

5 months

Third day running of Gleam being the #1 trending repo on GitHub

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

7 months

@joenutt_author lmao guy's name is nutt

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

5 months

We just broke 10k stars on GitHub

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

6 years

@roisiproven @alicegoldfuss Having a special isolated school that special powerful families go to, after which students go on to control everything- that's also pretty British.

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

2 years

Gleam projects can now include @elixirlang modules! We can now make full use of all the wonderful things in the Elixir world 💜 Thank you Tynan Beatty for this rad feature!

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

10 days

Gleam broke 17,000 GitHub stars!!

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

21 days

Without any corporate backing my finances are not doing great. I'm currently earning less than a third of my conservative target, the lowest since 2021. What could I do here? Books take a long time. Merch is in the works. Streaming doesn't earn. Conferences are a big net loss.

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

3 years

Guess who doesn't need a landlord any more

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

5 months

Gleam got 2,800 stars yesterday 🤯

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

17 days

It's here! Gleam v1.4.0 is out now! ✨

Supercharged labels – Gleam

The Gleam programming language

gleam.run

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 years

@sunglassesface @therealdaneel Nevermind PR, it's extremely illegal in UK and USA and you'd lose everything

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

5 months

Is there a word for this kind of growth

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

2 years

OK @flydotio have convinced me. SQLite is rad for web applications and I'm now using it in prod

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

5 months

Thank you to @ThePrimeagen and @t3dotgg for dropping Gleam videos at the same time and completely destroying my inboxes

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

5 years

@SheRatesDogs "liberal"

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 months

Another company just put Gleam into production ✨

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

21 days

i regret nothing

teej dv 🔭

@teej_dv

21 days

i regret to inform everyone that gleam is a terrible idea. THE CRAZY GUY WHO MADE IT TRIED TO DO CSS AS A BACKEND FRAMEOWKR?!?!?!

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 years

Ah yes, the 6 genders

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

6 months

Well this is exciting...

Release v1.0.0-rc1 · gleam-lang/gleam

github.com

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 years

@github Drop ICE

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

5 months

Wow folks, thank you so much for all the love today. It has honestly been quite overwhelming. Shout out to @ThePrimeagen and @t3dotgg for opening the flood gates, and @flydotio getting us here in the first place! You're the best 💖

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 years

@KiraArghy Good thing viruses take the holidays off

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 years

Some good news! I'm joining @EmbarkStudios as an Open Source Engineer! Super excited to join the team and start working on the @rust_gamedev ecosystem 🥳

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

7 years

Elixir is mainstream now. Time to move on everyone #myelixirstatus #googlecloud

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

2 years

The beginnings of a Gleam language server ✨

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

3 months

The LSP improvements in the next Gleam release are going to blow your socks off

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

1 year

@PALillie That's not how protest works mate, we don't shut up on the days when it's topical.

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

2 years

Anyway this Gleam language server is coming along nicely ✨

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

3 years

OMG it worked! Gleam can publish @hexpm packages!

first_gleam_publish_package

The first library published with the Gleam build tool

hex.pm

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

3 years

We have a working Gleam package manager! I've been working towards this for so long, I am so chuffed it's working 😄

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

7 months

Wow! Had a blast presenting at @fosdem ! Look how packed the BEAM room is!

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

3 years

First ever Gleam project compiled with the new Gleam build tool!

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

20 days

Did someone say type safe SQL in Gleam?

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

5 years

This light sculpture is outside my hotel and I have so many questions

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

2 months

I may have found a solution to a Gleam programming problem that has had me stumped for 2 years. The solution is 14 lines of Gleam code and no compiler changes. What.

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

5 months

Gleam just got @bunjavascript support

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

2 years

Another company put Gleam into production today 🥰

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

3 years

Just opened a PR to linguist so Gleam can get syntax highlighting on GitHub. Wish me luck!

Add the Gleam programming language by lpil · Pull Request #5688 · github-linguist/linguist

Description Hello! 👋 I would like to add support for the Gleam programming language. Checklist: I am adding a new language. The extension of the new language is used in hundreds of repositories...

github.com

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 years

Following up from my previous post about the ethics of employment I've decided not to continue interviewing for the Facebook Erlang team, so now I'm looking for a job! Please share with all your lovely friends 💜

Looking to join a team – lpil.uk

A little about me and what I'm looking for. :)

lpil.uk

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

2 years

Starting from next week I will be going part time at the day job to invest more time into Gleam! Expect a lot more Gleam in future ✨ A huge thank you to @flydotio , @teamalembic , and all the other sponsors for making this possible! 💖

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

1 year

Heh, Gleam can parse and analyze the stdlib from scratch faster than Ruby can print its version number

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

5 months

Just heard we're going to have another company using Gleam production by the end of the week 👀

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

5 months

I should have released v1 ages ago

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 months

Hi Josh! The bible is not banned in Gleam, and I myself am a Catholic.

josh (dbadbadba.com) 🇺🇲/acc

@knewter

4 months

I legitimately have ignored @gleamlang entirely, though it is firmly in the arena of languages i find most interesting, because they would consider citing Bible verses to be exclusionary so no Christians allowed

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

6 years

@roisiproven @alicegoldfuss It even has its own special sport with oddly complex rules

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

6 months

About once a week I pause while writing Gleam and go "holy shit it's a real language and it's good" Hard to comprehend how far it has come since I managed to "Hello, world!" years go

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

1 year

@Bexbel @ajcdeane @AyoCaesar @BBCNews My dude, she went viral proclaiming that she's a communist on a popular national TV talk show. also lol, thinking Putin is a communist.

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

2 years

I hope Gleam is so successful that one day I can make writing cringe whiney blog posts my full time job

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

3 years

Rust should have called a collection of crates a "pallet", not a "workspace"

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 years

To be explicit, technology is always political and Gleam is a political project. Racists, bigots, and fascists are not tolerated within our community.

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

5 months

I'm an influencer now

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

20 days

Thank you to all the folks who sponsored Gleam yesterday. The project is all because of people like you. You're all amazing.

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 years

Gleam has almost as many GitHub stars as F# and that blows my mind 🤯

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

2 years

Went to the pub, met someone running Gleam in production Wowwww

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

11 days

No sweat 😎

Dmitrii Kovanikov

@ChShersh

12 days

Expectations from a new programming language are crazy nowadays. A new language has to Have a formatter Have a linter Have a build tool Have a package manager Have documentation Have project templates Have a friendly community Have a minimal ecosystem of CLI parsers, web

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

25 days

"public money, public code" Makes perfect sense to me.

Kenneth Reitz

@kennethreitz42

27 days

Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

2 months

Hey recruiters, a company computer is not a perk any more than the burger grill is a perk for a fast food worker

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 months

I twitch raided @teej_dv with my ~25 viewers. About 30 seconds later he sent them back + 250 with a raid of his own, resulting an unplanned extra 2 hours of streaming from me. That was so much fun!! And wow I'm dead now 😴

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

3 years

Hey so Gleam can compile Cowboy now

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

2 years

The Gleam language server is here! ✨

Introducing the Gleam language server! – Gleam

The Gleam programming language

gleam.run

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

2 years

Gleam compiling Elixir's Plug! ✨⚗️🐙

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

3 months

If people could refrain from being homophobic and misogynistic on twitter in response to someone criticising an email app that would be fab, thanks

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

2 years

We got syntax highlighting and everything

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 months

You didn't think we were gunna slow down releases now that v1 is out, did you? 😎

Gleam Language

@gleamlang

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Gleam v1.1.0 is out now!! 🌟

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

3 months

@Treybastian They say it is in the changelog. I really don't like how these big cloud based LLM services are being crowbarred into everything.

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 months

CodeCrafters have just launched a course in which you implement Redis in Gleam! If that (or any of the other courses) sounds like your sort of thing then sign up using my referral link and a portion of the price will go to supporting Gleam.

The Software Pro's Best Kept Secret.

Real-world proficiency projects designed for experienced engineers. Develop software craftsmanship by recreating popular devtools from scratch.

app.codecrafters.io

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

8 months

TUIs in Gleam! @leostera 's work has been a real inspiration for Gleam folks 💖

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

2 months

Someone should write a blog post on how to use Gleam instead of JS for Phoenix LiveView hooks. That'd be cool

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

7 months

Look at that growth! The Gleam package ecosystem is really taking off 💖

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

3 years

I think this might be the first ever Gleam program running in the browser?

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

2 months

Here we go!!!!!!!

Code BEAM

@CodeBEAMio

2 months

Our final Keynote Speaker spotlight for Code BEAM Europe 2024 is for @hayleighdotdev and @louispilfold ! 🇪🇺 They're going take a look at how Gleam was shaped by the BEAM, some of the stories around it, and how Gleam is opening up the BEAM to a whole new group of developers! 💡

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

3 months

"add macros to Gleam!" no, we're adding more error messages

Giacomo Cavalieri

@giacomo_cava

3 months

Babe wake up, new compiler warning just dropped. Now Gleam’s compiler will warn you when you’re building a list and immediately matching on it, suggesting a better alternative! ✨

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

1 month

This Gleam type search is amazing! Find the function you need from all published Gleam packages! Try searching for this: fn(List(a), fn(a) -> b) -> List(b)

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

1 month

Gleam LS: "it's basic" to "it's really good" in 6 months

Giacomo Cavalieri

@giacomo_cava

1 month

I’m super excited to say that @gleamlang will support function arguments hints in the next release! And it works with regular calls, pipes and use so you won’t have to jump to a function’s documentation no matter how you’re calling it ✨

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

3 years

Shout out to my mum who just started sponsoring me on GitHub

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 months

The vid of me implementing Redis in Gleam has been more popular than my other vids lately. What makes you like this more than the others? And what would you like to see in future?

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

3 years

@josevalim You've got the patience of a saint. Hope you get to have a super relaxing weekend 💜

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 years

Gleam v0.8 is out! 🥳 It's a pretty big release this time! Read more about it here: #erlang #gleamlang #elixirlang

Gleam v0.8 released! – lpil.uk

Version v0.8 of the Gleam programming language has been released! Let's take a look at what's new.

lpil.uk

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

5 months

To the secondary school teacher using Gleam to teach computer science: Are you aware that your students are private-messaging asking for help with their homework? 😁

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 years

Bad news: I'm going to be unemployed from next week Good news: I'm going to use this as an opportunity to work more on Gleam! If you'd like to support me in doing this please consider sponsoring me on GitHub

Sponsor @lpil on GitHub Sponsors

Gleam: Making type safe programming a production ready reality on the Erlang virtual machine!

github.com

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 months

Today has been absolutely wild The Gleam train just keeps getting faster and faster

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 months

Unless it's Gleam, then you're late to the party and should really get on that

Theo - t3.gg

@t3dotgg

4 months

Sincere answer: Don’t try and keep up with everything. Being “early” isn’t an advantage. If something is worth learning, it will rise above the noise.

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

1 year

Hetzner just launched ARM based VPS. 2 core aarch64 with 4GB RAM, 40 GB disc and 20 TB traffic for € 3.92! Hot damn that is _cheap_. Super hyped to see more ARM in the world

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

3 months

Distributed Gleam in production!!

ben 🌴

@realbennyjamins

3 months

clustering with pubsub is working 😎 #buildinpublic #gleam

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

4 years

First day at @EmbarkStudios and I've gotta say: This is a damn cool company and there's some very exciting @rustlang things coming from them in future.

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Louis Pilfold

@louispilfold

3 months

No one wanted this

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