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Louis Pilfold

@lpil.uk

"the maintainer is a legitimate communist. i will not be supporting this language" - some yt guy, 2024 I made @gleam.run and I do gymnastics (badly) they/them or he/him. end fossil fuels. genocide is bad. ride a bike.

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ooooh what's @gleam-news.bsky.social πŸ‘€

06.03.2026 12:27 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

honestly not a terrible idea

04.03.2026 12:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You are correct

04.03.2026 12:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a van full of hard drives going down the motorway

04.03.2026 11:29 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I want to buy a laptop from someone here in the UK.
I would like some protection like I would get using eBay or another public marketplace site, but the sale isn't open to other buyers.
Can anyone recommend a service for this? πŸ™

04.03.2026 11:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah! I'm so impressed by how high the quality was all around. Not a single dud talk, the the hallway track was fantastic

04.03.2026 11:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Genuinely my favourite conference I've attended so far. It was brilliantly organised, all the talks were amazing, and it was such a pleasure to talk to everyone and finally meet people in person who I had only known online.

Definitely will be back for Gleam Gathering 2027!

24.02.2026 22:23 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Danielle's talk on the correct way to abbreviate the term "WebAssembly" was excellent.

(ok it also was about Gleam and Wasm itself, but the abbreviation bit seemed key)

04.03.2026 11:17 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I am loving this series of dev-blogs from @curlingio on their migration to Gleam.
It's so interesting and informative to see inside big projects like these, and to understand the decisions and the challenges.

If you have time, please publish reports like these for your projects!

04.03.2026 11:15 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gleam shop! Support your favourite pink programming language by buying some cool merch, or by making a donation.

More Gleam swag here too btw πŸ‘€
shop.gleam.run/en-gbp

25.02.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like you shouldn't complain about people stealing your content when you famously stole all your content.

24.02.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Still buzzing after Gleam Gathering. It was so good!
What an incredible community Gleam has. πŸ’–

24.02.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They don't have any particular gimmick. There's a comparison to other ISPs on their website which could be informative perhaps.

23.02.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Should we move the @gleam.run infrastructure to @upcloud.com ?

23.02.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

Have a good one tef!

16.02.2026 11:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I constantly hear Goatmire is the GOAT of conferences, appropriately. Don't sleep on this one folks

16.02.2026 10:57 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gleam Gathering is almost here!

@lpil.uk will be celebrating Gleam’s (almost) second birthday, sharing insights from the past two years, key milestones, and plans for what’s next.

Check out the full list of speakers:
πŸ‘‰ gleamgathering.com#speakers

11.02.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It did!

15.02.2026 13:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gleam has a backwards compatibility guarantee but not a forwards compatibility guarantee, so folks who opt to use older versions may need to specify older versions of dependencies in their gleam.toml.
We don't do this by default for security reasons.

14.02.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah most folks use one of those tools for this reason. Fedora also has recently had problems with shipping packages that are broken due to some of them requiring a version of Erlang that isn't the one it ships, unfortunately.
I would recommend asdf, mise, or beamup. Or curling the static binary.

14.02.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

omg

14.02.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ok hear me out, @gleam.run Valentine's cards

11.02.2026 18:11 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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giacomo_cavalieri - Twitch Rust compiler dev: working on the Gleam compiler πŸ¦€β­οΈ

Jak is Gleam Rust streaming!
www.twitch.tv/giacomo_cava...

13.02.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yesterday I beat my childhood favourite game, Diablo 2. Today it gets its first major update in 25 years.
Nice of them to wait for me!

11.02.2026 22:17 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gleam Developer Survey 2025 Help us learn about Gleam users and the community in 2025!

Last chance to get your opinion hear before I close the Gleam developer survey and start my analysis!
Shape what the next year of Gleam will be!

developer-survey.gleam.run

08.02.2026 09:59 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have some multi-language blueray discs that I'm worried are starting to fail.
Do you have a blueray/dvd backup tool or workflow to recommend? πŸ™

08.02.2026 09:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

OK that is really cool. How does it know the layer?

08.02.2026 09:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks!

08.02.2026 09:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What's DMS?

08.02.2026 09:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

ooo lovely, thank you.
What's DMS?

08.02.2026 09:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0