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Louis Pilfold

@lpil.uk
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"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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Gleam News @gleam-news.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Rare sighting: @lpil.uk on a podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7pk...
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Louis Pilfold on Building Gleam - Static Types on the BEAM
YouTube video by BEAM There, Done That
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 31/08/2026
Giving $300,000 to the world's most well funded collection of Arch Linux dotfiles is a really odd decision, and that's before the politics of the project.
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 26/08/2026
Never better, thanks for asking
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 22/08/2026
@willow.sh What are you using with niri? Your setup looked really nice
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Gleam Programming Language @gleam.run · 19/08/2026
Did you know? @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social has added #Gleamlang to it's CS course!
Graphic with "Did you know... Berkeley University is now using Gleam for one of its Computer Science courses?" and a smiling pink star holding an envelope with a light bulb
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Christopher De Vries @unnecessary.tech · 18/08/2026
There’s a lot to like about gleam, but one aspect that doesn’t get a lot of attention is the security focus of the development team. Gleam offers great tooling and platforms for building secure and resilient web applications and services. gleam.run/news/help-fr...
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Help from the Github Security Lab | Gleam programming language
Gleam's takeaways from the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund program.
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 18/08/2026
Tonight is the night! See you later, London peeps!
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 18/08/2026
Did someone say pure-Gleam charts library? @giacomocavalieri.me is making one on stream 👀 www.twitch.tv/giacomo_cava...
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giacomo_cavalieri - Live on Twitch
coding pretty charts in Gleam ⭐️📈 | Streaming software and game development.
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 18/08/2026
another post in which I bang on about how companies should support their open source dependencies
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 18/08/2026
Bravo @jtdowney.com for adding password hashing algorithms Erlang's crypto module! So many NIFs can be removed from so many web applications when this is released, hype! github.com/erlang/otp/p...
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crypto: add crypto:kdf/4 by jtdowney · Pull Request #11301 · erlang/otp
Add a crypto:kdf/4 NIF backed by OpenSSL's EVP_KDF, supporting argon2, hkdf, scrypt, sskdf, and pbkdf2 with option maps. This was something I had proposed on Erlang Forums and also discovered i...
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 18/08/2026
oooh exciting! I loved Evan's work with Elm, keen to check this out too
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 14/08/2026
Aha! I can finally talk about this! I've been itching to spread the word and share some learnings. Thanks again to Microsoft and GitHub for inviting Gleam into the program, it has been fantastic.
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 13/08/2026
Huge thank you to these folks! We need more peeps like them who can support Gleam core
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 12/08/2026
I have a project to stream! Now I just need it to be cool enough in my flat for it to be tolerable to wear a tshirt. No one needs to see that.
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 07/08/2026
Can anyone recommend a way to continuously send photos taken on my iphone to a Linux server? I've used a few things but haven't been totally happy with anything yet. Currently using Immich but I'd love something lighter for just sync files.
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 06/08/2026
Maybe I should stream again
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 06/08/2026
Went to the pub with some Gleamlins this evening, what a lovely bunch!! Even more looking forward to meetup on the 18th now.
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 06/08/2026
Oh gosh, it is so beautiful. Just needs a Windows 9x title bar
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 06/08/2026
Firefox's URL autocompletion has totally broken for me for some reason. At first it was annoying, but now after a couple days I'm quite liking it? My web browsing is much more intentional now, and I'm not habitually opening the news and social media as often.
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 05/08/2026
See you there folks!
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 04/08/2026
ok this is the coolest package I've seen in a while. It can convert curl commands into Gleam code, or the other way around. Instant Gleam examples from any API documentation with a single copy/paste curlify.hexdocs.pm
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curlify · v1.0.0
Generate curl commands easily
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 03/08/2026
And there's also a bunch of rubbish code written by me!
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 03/08/2026
Observe the Gleam atproto takeover in action
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 02/08/2026
The Gleam atproto epoch
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Gleam Programming Language @gleam.run · 29/07/2026
Gleam v1.18.0 is out now! ✨ gleam.run/news/a-field...
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A field day for Gleam’s language server | Gleam programming language
News post: Gleam v1.18.0 released!
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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 28/07/2026
Everyone better pick Gleam as the language they want to work with!!
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Gleam News @gleam-news.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Diversity Programme offers 10 virtual and 5 in-person tickets for Code BEAM Europe 🔥 Great opportunity for Gleamlins that wouldn't be able to attend otherwise: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @codebeam.bsky.social #codebeam #gleamnews
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Code BEAM Europe 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Programme
We are pleased to announce that Code BEAM Europe is continuing to offer a Diversity and Inclusion Programme sponsored by AppSignal. The goal of the programme is to broaden access to the conference and...
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 28/07/2026
I am so confused by all the reviews for Odyssey, from both friends and critics; I thought it was pants! Went home and watched 1987's Predator immediately afterwards. Hot damn, it is such well made film. Got to show it to someone for the first time too!
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 25/07/2026
@giacomocavalieri.me's twitch streams are such good vibes. Gleamlins are so chill
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 23/07/2026
I attempted a glide kip for the first time today, and with a little help from coach I got really close! I think I can get it soon!? I am super excited.
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 23/07/2026
So how's everyone finding Gleam v1.18.0-rc1? It has a full rewrite of the Erlang code generator, so feedback from testing is super useful!
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 22/07/2026
The Gleam takeover of atproto continues
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 22/07/2026
oh no I'm getting into zigbee
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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 21/07/2026
Please try this out if you can!! It comes with a full rewrite of the erlang code generator and it would be great to get some feedback before the release 🙇‍♂️
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hayleigh @hayleigh.dev · 21/07/2026
are there any gleam sympthatic orgs in london that might donate some space for a meetup next month 👀 what if we made it atproto flavoured 👁️👄👁️
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 21/07/2026
Another day, another github outage wasting my time
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 19/07/2026
lmao. I love you lot, you're the best.
The Tangled trending section, entirely made of Gleam projects.
1. gleam.run/gleam
2. giacomocavalieri.me/squirrel
3. giacomocavalieri.me/birdie
4. hayleigh.dev/at
5. becca.monster/iv
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 18/07/2026
Today I made the front page of the orange site by mirroring a git repo, AMA
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 18/07/2026
OK the new Elixir website looks really nice. Bravo @josevalim.bsky.social and team!
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rebecca~ @becca.monster · 18/07/2026
So everyone should go star the compiler so it gets first place, but then It would be really cool if one of my projects could be 4th to make it entirely Gleam 🥹👉👈 I made the default Gleam array implementation! tangled.org/becca.monste... and a really cool task pool too! tangled.org/becca.monste...
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becca.monster/iv
a fast, general-purpose, persistent array structure for Gleam.
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 18/07/2026
You should all star this, mostly because I think it would be funny if the trending section was entirely Gleam projects
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 18/07/2026
Tangled first impressions: I like that the UI doesn't bug out or fail to load half the time.
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 18/07/2026
Are there any sites with a sitemap page that you think is really good?
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Gears @gearsco.de · 17/07/2026
BTW if anyone is interested in ATProto and has been eyeing up Gleam for a while but didn't know how to get started, there's a lot of Gleam-ATProto chat happening at the moment in the Gleam discord, as well as many ATProto projects being made in Gleam. Join in! discord.gg/Fm8Pwmy
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Join the The Gleam Programming Language Discord Server!
The server for the Gleam programming language! | 8457 members
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 17/07/2026
Hello, world! I got the atproto bug and I'm on tangled too now. tangled.org/lpil.uk
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I'm the Gleam guy
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 16/07/2026
I taught some folks calisthenics for the first time this weekend, it was so much fun! Whether code or sport or anything else, teaching is just so interesting and so rewarding.
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 16/07/2026
based. Comments are the best.
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Gleam Programming Language @gleam.run · 16/07/2026
"The app didn't break a sweat when tickets went on sale!" Another example of Gleam in action ⭐ A non-profit organisation built their ticketing system with Gleam and Lustre
"Gleam in production" headline followed by a quote: "I chose Gleam and Lustre as my tool of choice for the confidence it gave me to release this application through fullstack type safety and use of OTP. The app didn't break a sweat when tickets went on sale!" by Cole from Undefined.Charity.

In the bottom right corner there's a smiling pink star, Gleam's logo.
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 14/07/2026
GitHub's code review UI performs so badly with large patches that it's hindering my productivity. Can anyone recommend a good GitHub PR review tool that supports leaving comments on the PR? 🙏
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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 13/07/2026
Is there a website for open source sewing patterns? Like GitHub or Thingiverse, but for making clothes.
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