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Brett
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🍞 Software Engineer
✨ Gleam enthusiast
📍 NYC
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A bunch of talks yesterday name-dropped Lustre which is so surreal, super wild for folks to just be talking about Your Thing ™️ in the middle of a talk.

We're only 18 stars off of 1.9k and I'm desperately trying to get 2k before the end of the year. 🥺👉👈

github.com/lustre-labs/...
GitHub - lustre-labs/lustre: A Gleam web framework for building HTML templates, single page applications, and real-time server components.
A Gleam web framework for building HTML templates, single page applications, and real-time server components. - lustre-labs/lustre
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Hayleigh is by far one of the best devs I’ve ever met, and an amazing teacher of difficult concepts too! If you’re hiring I can’t sing her praises enough!
i'm putting the feelers out for frontend-y dev rel-y docs-y gigs that are 2-3 days a week. if you know someone looking for someone who can do gleam/elm/react/write words, hit me up 💕
September 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Forgot to announce on here, but streamed some #gleamlang this morning! Using gleeunit, I can now automatically create/destroy a database from a template for tests with pog www.twitch.tv/videos/25694...
[Gleam] one database per test with gleeunit - chiroptical on Twitch
chiroptical went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Software and Game Development VOD now.
www.twitch.tv
September 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
More important than how productive your tools make you is how cool you feel using them. Is my helix, and zellij setup discernibly better than other editors? Probably not. Does doing basic things make me feel really smart? Absolutely
September 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I don’t think I’m getting the most out of jj that I could, but my commits are cleaner and I’m having fun so that’s a win
September 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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we really want to build something using @gleam.run. any suggestions?
August 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Details confirmed for the first ever Gleam conference, brought to you by @crowdhailer.bsky.social: Gleam Gathering is happening on 21st February 2026 in Bristol, England.

First speakers confirmed are from our Core Team: @lpil.uk @hayleigh.dev and @giacomocavalieri.me

gleamgathering.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I don’t know whether I have the font on my ereader so large because my eyesight is getting worse or because the dopamine hit I get from pressing the page turn button is what keeps me reading
August 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The last 8 years have all been working towards this moment
August 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Oh my gosh! Gleam got #2 most admired programming language in the Stack Overflow survey!
We're on the podium with Rust and Elixir!
July 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It’s not news that the software that we use seem to be getting worse and worse but it feels like the website versions of apps are getting hit the hardest. Especially on mobile. The bright side is it means I spend less time online out of frustration 🤷
July 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Preliminary results but so far @tanstack.com Form is amazing. Past form libraries I've used have been so frustrating that I've preferred to just hand role forms myself, but TanStack Form has fixed a lot of those issues
July 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Guillaume Hivert, VP of Engineering at Steerlab, shares how being a Gleam business has been the best choice they have made!
July 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A major disconnect I have with a lot of pro AI arguments is that they make out that doing things like searching something on Google is such a painful experience, and we now no longer need to do it. It's definitely gotten more annoying _because_ of AI, but it's wasn't some huge burden solve?
June 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Since the NYT election map by neighborhood is now behind a paywall, I thought I'd share this one by AP apnews.com/projects/nyc...
See how every neighborhood in New York City voted in the Democratic mayoral primary
apnews.com
June 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Here are the bars that will be showing the Hell Gate Primary Night Special Live Event. If you wanna add your bar, get in touch. hellgatenyc.com/primary-live...
June 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
There are two hawks(?) perched on a tree across from my apartment but they’re just too far away to get a good look at.

This is a PSA not to wait to buy your binoculars for birding
June 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Super stoked to see that @gleam.run added support for named processes! This makes it even easier to build out the same kinds of systems that we love in other BEAM languages like Elixir, and Erlang.
June 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
BEAM peeps, does anyone have a go-to library for creating PDFs?
June 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I spent way too much time at work figuring out how to deploy a React frontend with a simple backend on Vercel. While I definitely could have just used NextJS the final outcome is a setup that takes less than 30 seconds to deploy. It can even do SSR, and HMR on both the frontend and backend too!
June 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Let’s hear from people that use Gleam in production!

@markholmes.bsky.social of Williams & Holmes, LLC:
“What’s so great about Gleam isn’t how fast and simple it is to build things –although that is true– but how easy it is to come back later and refactor!”
June 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I love helix and have been daily driving it for a few years now, but I just spent the day trying to get prettier and eslint working when they previously worked fine.

If anyone has an idea of why the sudden change please let me know 🙏
June 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Gleam v1.11.0 is out now! 🌟
gleam.run/news/gleam-j...
Gleam JavaScript gets 30% faster
Gleam v1.11.0 released
gleam.run
June 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
As a Bills fan I stand by that I support the only real NY football team. That being said it was fun rooting for a truly local team like the Knicks. So now until September all my energy is going to the Liberty!
June 1, 2025 at 4:32 AM
A good day for NYC basketball across boroughs
May 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM