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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 29/12/2025

Thank you to the 193 individual contributors from over 44 countries that helped us build @vendure.io in 2025! Let's collaborate again in 2026 💪 2025-wrapped.vendure.io

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 14/12/2025

Age 42, getting my kickflips back after 20 years Just repeat and repeat.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 23/11/2025

Landed 2 solid tre flips today, first time in like 20 years. Only got the fails on camera though 😭

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 21/11/2025

Checking out TanStack Start. Yeah sorry about the horrific thumbnail that's what happens when I give the guy total creative freedom 🤣 youtu.be/X_NnM72RN90?...

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We are all excited about this framework

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 24/10/2025

Got this feedback on our Discord this morning. Totally validates our thesis behind completely rebuilding our dashboard.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 17/08/2025

I'll be speaking there! You should come too!

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 17/08/2025

Every time I come back to Manchester it looks better

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 01/08/2025

If you delete the issue template I will find you

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 31/07/2025

Just got the last part of my mini pedal board. It's literally everything I need: octaver, Rat-style distortion, delay/reverb, looper/drum machine. With this combination I can do all music.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 31/07/2025

Last night at @viennajs.bsky.social: give a talk about dotfiles and key bindings and you are guaranteed to be swarmed by devs for the rest of the night 😂 Great talk by our new @vendure.io team member Housein 👏

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 25/07/2025

I think back to the hours of my life spent painfully trying to figure out how to make JavaScript work. Copy-pasting from random forum posts. This was even before Stack Overflow (RIP). Yes I'm that old. And I compare it to the velocity I now have using AI tooling.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 24/07/2025

6,666 commits over 7 years of building @vendure.io that's an average of 3-4 commits *every* work day for the past 7 years. Consistency. Just show up and get the work done.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 21/07/2025

Sometimes I hear that it was a mistake to build @vendure.io on top of GraphQL. "Too complex", "Can't be cached", "Poor performance", "It was all hype" Yes, every technology has its tradeoffs. I'm keenly aware. There *are* some aspects you need to be mindful of when working with GraphQL.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 18/07/2025

> @vite.dev is my new favourite thing. If you're a @vendure.io developer it's gonna become your new favourite thing too, very soon! I was vaguely aware that it was slowly taking over the frontend world - every framework seemed to use it for some reason.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 16/07/2025

There's one lesson that has taken me years to *really* learn in software development: Simplicity should be prized above all other things. Simple code. Simple logic. Simple dependencies. Simple deployments.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 04/07/2025

I love building stuff for developers. Here's what's coming in the new @vendure.io dashboard:

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Miro @meeroslav.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

“This is how big the pile of money is I got from my dad to work on open source” 😂

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HalfStack @halfstackconf.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞. @michlbrmly.dev reminded us at HalfStack Vienna that “it depends” is a valid answer ✌️ Watch his talk: youtu.be/WBpzS36-eIc Submit your CfP for Vienna 2025! 🔗 halfstackconf.com/vienna #TechWithoutTribalism #HalfStackEvents

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You Aren't Gonna Need It...Until You Are?

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 20/06/2025

New weekly record for npm downloads this week for @vendure.io

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 19/06/2025

This is what it looks like when an abandoned open source project comes back to life

github contribution chart showing long period of inactivity, with lots of recent activity.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 13/06/2025

Extremely annoying LLM behaviour

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 11/06/2025

I'm excited to speak at the upcoming @viennajs.bsky.social meetup alongside @tkdodo.eu I'll be talking about life as a full-time OSS maintainer. Anything you wanna know about? viennajs.org/en/meetup/vi...

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ViennaJS June 2025

Everybody is welcome & feel free to share this invitation!

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 07/06/2025

First back flip landed at age 41. How much harder is it to land one on flat ground?

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 12/05/2025

Achievement unlocked: I actually started a conversation with a stranger in Mandarin while waiting with my kids at a doctors office. It was very, very basic but we managed to make it work 😂

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 07/05/2025

9yo made a working sniper rifle from Lego

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 28/04/2025

Just sat next to some teenage girls who were chatting in German and referring to each other as "bro". Is that a thing now?

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 26/04/2025

Some premium presentation on tonight's glazed belly pork 😋

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 25/04/2025

Coming soon: Draft Orders in our new @vendure.io dashboard

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 23/04/2025

I had the pleasure to meet @danielroe.dev at the @viennajs.bsky.social this evening. A very inspiring speaker and all around nice chap, I must say.

Photo of Daniel and I at the meetup standing in a slightly awkward English manner.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 23/04/2025

It's that time of year when I'm glad that the @vendure.io office is right above one of the best ice cream places in the city 🍦

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 04/04/2025

We have an extremely 🔥 role open in Vienna right now.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 03/04/2025

We just released TypeORM v0.3.22. Oh you thought TypeORM was dead? Nope, we have an incredible new team of maintainers already on their second big release in the past 4 weeks! github.com/typeorm/type...

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Release 0.3.22 · typeorm/typeorm

What's Changed fix: transaction not ending correctly by @alumni in #11264 docs: add "How to use Vite for the backend" entry to faq by @robkorv in #11306 chore: don't use version in docker-compose ...

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 16/03/2025

Weekend coding project with my kid: ⚔️ Rome: Total Vibes ⚔️ Mostly built by Cursor with a few manual interventions. Features: - Multiple factions & units - Ranged & melee combat - Tile-based map - Perlin noise-based elevation - Elevation-based range & speed buffs - Enemy AI which is pretty hard!

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 14/03/2025

I finally broke through my AI-hesitancy. Today was one of the most productive, flow-filled days of building I have experienced. And I mostly typed English, not TypeScript.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 03/03/2025

I'm excited to announce the first TypeORM release in over a year! 🎉 Since taking over maintenance with David late last year, we've been working to build a sustainable model to guarantee the future of this amazing & critical project (2m+ downloads PER WEEK)

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 28/02/2025

Look the thumb is just a meme. My friendship with @angular.dev will *never* end ❤️ But here's why we switched and what I've been building with React this week. youtu.be/Se0MeF9xsts?...

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Dev Diary Feb 2025 - Moving from Angular to React

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Vendure @vendure.io · 28/02/2025

✨ Vendure v3.1.4 is out now! 📘 Changelog: github.com/vendure-ecom...

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 26/02/2025

I've been hacking on our new React dashboard for a week on and off. I've got some really exciting proof of concept work that I want to show off later this week. I have a very ambitious goal with the DX and power of this project. Pretty confident we can get there too!

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 18/02/2025

I've been doing Angular for well over 10 years, starting with v1.x. 7 years ago I chose Angular to power the admin interface of @vendure.io. We just announced that we'll be moving to React. Some thoughts 👇 vendure.io/blog/2025/02...

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Announcing our new Admin UI: A Move to React | Vendure

Today, we’re announcing one of the most significant shifts in Vendure’s history: we’re moving from Angular to React for our Admin UI.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 13/02/2025

Meet your new TypeORM maintenance team! Thanks Naor for organizing the first maintainer call. It's really exciting to see this project coming back to life with a motivated group of individuals pushing things forward.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 24/01/2025

After 11 years living im Austria I finally got myself Lederhosen. Photos to follow.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 23/01/2025

In the Vendure Discord we started getting questions about "I have created this backend NestJS service. How do I use it in my frontend Angular code?" I realized that the rise of Nextjs and other "full stack" frameworks have sufficiently blurred the boundary...

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 22/01/2025

We just added a new docs page on implementing the dataloader pattern to speed up problematic queries in your @vendure.io app! Thanks to community team member Marc for contributing this guide! docs.vendure.io/guides/devel...

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GraphQL Dataloaders | Vendure Docs

Dataloaders are used in GraphQL to solve the so called N+1 problem. This is an advanced performance optimization technique you may

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 19/01/2025

Reading stories of the banter between TikTok refugees and Chinese RedNote users is fun. Actually speaking to people and learning about them first hand is the best way to circumvent propaganda. But I'm sure it won't last. CCP will not tolerate free exchange for long I think.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 17/01/2025

Here's a beautiful new web shop that recently launched with @vendure.io: Ciocca migrated from PrestaShop to Vendure and make great use of a number of Vendure's advanced capabilities:

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