"the maintainer is a legitimate communist. i will not be supporting this language" I'm on bsky too! @ lpil.uk they/them or he/him. end genocide.
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Since Gleam v1 my role has shifted from coding to leadership, and Jak has been the one keeping Gleam improving at such a rapid rate- entirely without pay.
He now has GitHub Sponsors! If you want Gleam to continue growing and improving please do sponsor his incredible work! 💜
If you like Gleam and want to help me keep working on it please consider sponsoring me, it would mean the world 💖
github.com/sponsors/giacomoc…
Always fab talking at CodeBEAM, thanks for having me
So many amazing Gleam talks at @CodeBEAMio Europe!
Yoshie's talk on safely and cautious adopting Gleam in existing businesses was absolutely brilliant. Really looking forward to the video being published
Got my first ever successful v5 boulder climb! A fun mantle with only 2 holds.
Photo below (me for scale)
Louis Pilfold retweeted
Hello everyone! I'm organizing a friendly gleam game jam, meant for everyone to learn and have a good time.
The jam will start the next 21st of November at 17 CEST. It will be ranked by me and friends.
These new code actions are amazing. Gleam is one of the cosiest languages to work with in 2025!
Gleam v1.13.0 is out now! 👻
gleam.run/news/formalising-e…
Look at these cool folks
The best part of Code BEAM? Hallway conversations with people who built the languages.
Nov 5-6 in Berlin: → @rvirding (Erlang co-creator) → @louispilfold (Gleam creator)
→ James Harton (Reactor/Ash creator)
Coffee chats > conference talks
codebeameurope.com/
Gosh! Talk about a release! Some really brilliant stuff here.
They really are on the cutting edge of type system development here, super impressive work. Once I've got Gleam v1.13 out the door I'm going to have lots of fun trying out Elixir v1.19
Elixir v1.19 released: enhanced type checking, broader type inference, and up to 4x faster compilation for large projects! elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/10…
A huge thank you to Fresha, Starfish*, and Dashbit for sponsoring the type system, plus @CNRS and @Remote for making it possible.
Hard to imagine a better person to have on your team than Dave Thomas. His work and writing have shaped the BEAM ecosystem.
A real opportunity for someone!
Louis Pilfold retweeted
Have @metpoliceuk thought about simply logging the protest on their system, doing nothing to investigate it & sending Shabana Mahmood a crime reference number & a text from victim support, like they do for most crime in London?
ACTION TO GO AHEAD AS PLANNED
Today, the Metropolitan Police wrote to us to ask that we postpone Saturday’s mass protest in Trafalgar Square, citing “significant pressure on policing”.
Our response in short: Don’t arrest us then.
Our full response: defendourjuries.net/wp-conte…
I've just learnt that there's many AI generated e-books about Gleam on amazon, all incredibly inaccurate.
Is there anything I can do prevent people wasting their money on these?
Lots of really nice quality of life stuff, and also big improvements for writing JS FFI!
Gleam v1.13.0-rc1 is out for testing! 🌟
github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/…
"I want my un-requested PR to be reviewed faster. Should I sent a polite reminder, or even sponsor the maintainer? No, I'll send them a long aggressive message instead!"
- some guy in my DMs, for some reason
Elixir has a `DynamicSupervisor`, but that has a different design that is dynamic in some additional ways. Given the different designs I think different names would be beneficial.
What might be a better name for "simple one for one" supervisor? aka: supervisor where at-start you give it a process-staring function, and when running you can call `start_child(some_argument)` to have the supervisor use the function to start and supervise a new child instance