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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 · 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

Every time I come back to Manchester it looks better

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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 · 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 · 04/07/2025

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

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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 · 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 · 07/05/2025

9yo made a working sniper rifle from Lego

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

Who has a suggestion for a new, simpler, cooler logo for TypeORM?

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 04/01/2025

Found a new killer app for LLMs: make it possible to understand postmodern art exhibitions.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 30/12/2024

Repo stats for TypeORM for December: - 17 PRs merged - 62 issues closed We're aiming for a release in the next couple of weeks.

screenshot of github insights page showing PR & issues stats

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 27/12/2024

I'm very much enjoying not programming for a bit

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 24/12/2024

Merry Christmas from Vienna 🎄

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 19/12/2024

You know that part in a movie where everyone is watching the ECG flatlining and then it suddenly springs into a pulse? 💓

chart of commits over time from Github showing a flat line until November when it starts to pick up again

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 19/12/2024

December was the first month this year since January that more issues & PRs were closed than opened on the TypeORM repo! 🙌

screenshot of github insights page showing 13 merged pull requests, 58 closed issues, and a chart of contributors

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 14/12/2024

I just finished "Why Nations Fail". Excellent book. I'd put it alongside these other titles in terms of giving a broad understanding of the shape of history and the overarching dynamics behind much of the details of the world we live in.

Political order and political decay book cover

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 14/12/2024

Thanks @michael-hladky.bsky.social and everyone else involved in putting on NG Glühwein 2024! It was great to meet so many friends old and new. The Angular community is the best, and the framework has a really exciting future.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 11/12/2024

The first code PRs since last March got merged into TypeORM this week! We are starting with getting the infrastructure (testing, linting etc) into a healthy state. This will set us up for the first bugfixes in the next patch release.

Screenshot of the typeorm github commit timeline showing commits from 10th December relating to github actions

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 09/12/2024

Sure sign that your open source project made it: branded socks 🧦

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 06/12/2024

We wrapped up Vendure Conf 24 with the brand new “Vendure At Scale“ masterclass. 12 developers joined us from Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Hungary and Kenya. 4 hours of in-depth learning and discussion. It was an absolute pleasure and I look forward to the next one!

Photo of a room with developers doing a Vendure workshop. I am at the front delivering the workshop.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 05/12/2024

Today I got to finally meet in person the #1 community contributor to @vendure.io, Martijn! ❤️ open source

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 05/12/2024

Up now: @mitsuhiko.at at Vendure Conf 2024 🙌 "you can microdose Kubernetes" 😂

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 04/12/2024

Final test run before the @vendure.io Vendure Conf 2024 kicks off tomorrow morning!

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 18/11/2024

I dislocated my right arm this weekend at the skatepark. 3 weeks in a sling. Perfect opportunity to finally learn how to use my TOTEM split keyboard. Credit to my 8yo for the design of the custom Lego accessory

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 15/11/2024

As a user of OSS how do you feel about this?

screenshot of a github bot that marks an issue as stale after 30 days and then closes it 3 days later

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 14/11/2024

Wait someone kinda brought it back!

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 13/11/2024

Want to get paid to work on OSS? We are hiring! I'm looking for two skilled full-stack TypeScript developers to join our team at Elevantiq, where we build enterprise commerce projects for global companies using a modern tech stack you will enjoy.

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Michael Bromley @michlbrmly.dev · 02/11/2024

Growing up in north west England I would sometimes see this cool looking building when driving past Preston. I later found out it was a Mormon temple and then checked out some other ones online and realized they all look pretty epic.

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