Peter Saxton

The Gleam community go ham on writing libraries. We have libraries for PDF, thermal printers, QR codes and static site generation.

We also have the first write up of the inaugural Gleam Gathering.

Issue 80 of Gleam weekly hot off the press.

gleamweekly.com/issues/80/

Another milestone achieved: Gleam had its first conference!

Thank you, @crowdhailer.bsky.social and Laura, for organising the #GleamGathering 2026 and bringing together dozens of Gleamlins in one place 🩷

Talks from FOSDEM and a Gnome based explainer, all in this weeks issue of Gleam Weekly.

gleamweekly.com/issues/79/

Thanks. I'll get it finished soon.
Then the much harder challenge of convincing people they can manage their own keys

This week's newsletter has the Gleam Gathering keynote announced. Louis will be bringing us a keynote looking backwards and forwards in the Gleam timeline.

gleamweekly.com/issues/78/

Dusting off some CSS skill, I'm somewhat pleased with the results.
This is my prototype for users being able to sign package releases using WebAuthN. Trying to get to a decentralized as is sensible package infrastructure.

A bumper newsletter after the Christmas holidays. We have the latest release the 2025 Developer survey and a bounty of blogs and libraries.

gleamweekly.com/issues/76/

1/5/2026, An IDE for EYG and relative references This is "1/5/2026, An IDE for EYG and relative references" by crowdhailer on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

vimeo.com/1151688303

EYG now has relative references and an IDE for multiple "files" of code. I'm using this IDE to improve the standard and JSON libraries much faster than before.
Demo shows how effects can be used to scope external service calls.

Algebraic effects are a great language feature. I keep finding new uses for them.
Here we have a specific effect for DNSimple that is handled to a generic Fetch call.
Keeps tokens out of application code. Adding proxy or stubbing in tests is also trivial

Gleam Gathering 2026 Join us for the first ever Gleam conference

The density of this line-up and schedule is beautiful. Should be awesome.

What was that famous quote?
I'm sorry about the duration of my events. If I had more time I'd make them shorter.. I think that was it.

gleamgathering.com#schedule
#goatadmire

The week's Gleam Weekly is here.

We have the full line up for Gleam Gathering, the first talks from Lambda conf and a few blog posts for good measure.

gleamweekly.com/issues/75/

Ahh this was a fun chat. Some shared struggles with conference organizing was discussed.
I'll be please to get to half the success of goatmire. I've only watched one talk so far and it looked amazing.

12/8/2025, EYG for scripting with an LLM This is "12/8/2025, EYG for scripting with an LLM" by crowdhailer on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Using EYG as a scripting language for an LLM. Capabilities or effects are nice for sandboxing generated code.

vimeo.com/1144625843

I've loved the @netlify.com service but I don't trust your support process to fix this.
We are loosing ticket sales for Gleam Gathering because of this so tomorrow I start moving all my projects to another service.

Hi @netlify.com every month since July you have lost my card details and required me to update my billing details.
See the successful billings in this list of billing notices. I've also raised a ticket to ensure that it's updated.
Today you lost them again and suspended my projects.

Why not build your own implementation of the BEAM, or drive your browser from Gleam.

The next issue of Gleam Weekly is here.
gleamweekly.com/issues/73/

So excited to speak at the first-ever Gleam conference! And then I get to nerd out about vdoms and performance too!

Thank you to @crowdhailer.bsky.social for organizing this amazing event 💕

All the speakers and panelists are now confirmed for Gleam Gathering 2026.

gleamgathering.com#speakers

It's a great line up that will take us through a range of topics an perspectives.

See you all there.

YouTube video by Code Sync LT: Explaining Effects and Effect Handlers with EYG - Peter Saxton | Code BEAM Europe 2024

Last year I had great fun explaining effects and handlers in this 5 minute lightning talk at @codebeam.bsky.social EU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dieh...
Today I'm going to try and explain type safe code reloading in 5 minutes.

I can't be the only one doing this.
All the articles and blogs I'm reading I first transform to a markdown file.
I'm using the @cloudflare.social browser rendering API to do this, but I'm sure there's other options.

The main trigger was wanting to keep a copy of what I read.

EYG EYG is a programming language for predictable, useful and most of all confident development.

I've been accepted to give another (shorter this time) talk about eyg.run

I need to start sharing more that it works well with AI.
1. easy to sandbox
2. expression local dependencies.

Even better both of these features really help humans.

Gleam OTP is maturing, with factory supervisor and Lustre dev tools getting a 2.0 release.

gleamweekly.com/issues/71/

More great libraries and some internet points for those libraries.

Gleam Weekly issue 70 is here.

gleamweekly.com/issues/70/

I make an API call.

Just under a week left to submit talks to Gleam Gathering the first dedicated Gleam conference.

Come and join some great Gleamlings and share what you've been working on. gleamgathering.com

Someone had organised an intriguing conference around my wife's birthday.
Difficult choices had to be made.

I've got loads

I thought feed readers had a way to discover it?
I don't really know as I don't use them. If there's a change that would help other's a PR would be gratefully received

Less than a month left to submit your talk proposal!
gleamgathering.com#call-for-talks ⏰

GitHub - CrowdHailer/gleamweekly: Gleam is so hot right now. There is so much happening in our wonderful and growing community that you wouldn't want to miss. Gleam is so hot right now. There is so much happening in our wonderful and growing community that you wouldn't want to miss. - CrowdHailer/gleamweekly

I think there's already something for feeds set up. Your welcome to have a look if it matches your needs github.com/crowdhailer/...