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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

A PDF that says "This PDF was created with Gleam"

The last 8 years have all been working towards this moment

This is huge!

Programming, scripting, and markup languages Rust is yet again the most admired programming language (72%), followed by Gleam (70%), Elixir (66%) and Zig (64%). Gleam is a new addition to the list, and for good reason - developers like it! Which programming, scripting, and markup languages have you done extensive development work in over the past year, and which do you want to work in over the next year? (If you both worked with the language and want to continue to do so, please check both boxes in that row.)

Oh my gosh! Gleam got #2 most admired programming language in the Stack Overflow survey!
We're on the podium with Rust and Elixir!

Honestly I’ll keep this mind next time criticizes my mobile views, “no you don’t understand, if they hate the mobile site they’ll go to desktop where they’ll see so many more products!”

So silly, especially nowadays when a lot of the underlying code is probably the same

I just saw Superman and it was a lot of fun. For the first time I’m genuinely looking to more DC movies

I used to be in the camp of wanting a “native” app for everything but lately I’ve come back around to acknowledging that the web is truly the best most accessible platform for software that we have right now

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 🤷

Okay but taking a step back, what was the difference between being able to use the internet to look something up during an interview and using some AI tool? To me this isn't an AI story, it's just about companies adopting more practical interview processes.

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

I've only used SolidJS on a few websites where I wanted to add some interactivity without the bloat of React, but the experience has always been great. The issues come when the site starts getting more complicated and there is a React library I want to use 😅

For us, Gleam is not just an alternative to JS, it’s a whole different way to write frontend and backend. The whole team can contribute, and even junior developers love it. Gleam is the best choice we made.

Guillaume Hivert, VP of Engineering at Steerlab, shares how being a Gleam business has been the best choice they have made!

I know a dev at LinkedIn I can ask

I find using LLMs useful for certain tasks, but I find it weird that we seemingly have to make up how awful doing things are compared to using an LLM to do them

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?

Its so emblematic of the tech industry right now that a company could make a product that I, and pretty much everyone I know, liked and used every day only to cancel it and make something that they don’t even know why you’d want to use it. At least I got the Zen browser out of this

See how every neighborhood in New York City voted in the Democratic mayoral primary

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...

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...

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

IMO as long as it's open source and I can feasibly deploy it myself if I wanted to (which personally I probably don't) I'm probably okay with it? Unfortunately a light vendor lockin seems like the industry standard right now 😅

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.

Oh you’re building something in Unison? If you ever make a “practical guide to Unison” type piece of content lmk! I’ve read through their docs a few times and it just doesn’t click for how I’d actually write software with it

BEAM peeps, does anyone have a go-to library for creating PDFs?

The difficult part of setting this up was a) figuring out Vercel's Output API, and b) wanting a expected experience of just running "pnpm dev" and having both the frontend and backend running with HMR. But now that I've done it I think this may be my setup for small projects going forward

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!

A picture of Gleam's pink starfish mascot, Lucy, alongside the same text as this post

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!”

Were you able to find a solution? A brittle absolute path?

Oh just saw the above post, yeah 100% that

Definitely having the same issue for prettier since it’s looking for the config relative to the file I’m trying to format. I’m wondering if eslint is having the same issue ?