The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)

I have this sickness right now where my smell sense is enhanced? Does anyone else have this?

I think I’ll do BlueSky support next for Music Monday. The choose from followers idea seems more fun that spinning up Discord support.

I just added support for Apple Music links to musicmonday.app, want to become a beta tester?

Could any non-US Apple Music users share an album link with me? I'm mainly looking to see if the path is the same shape as the US one.

Today we sold our Peloton for authentic Dominican take-out. Who got the better deal?

chiroptical.dev/posts/2025-0... "Why I re-wrote my Slack bot in Gleam"

I wonder if people think I’m crazy when I say “The sun makes me sneeze”.

I've done enough testing that I think it is time to release musicmonday.app to you all. This is currently a Slack application written in #gleamlang which is installed into a channel and selects a random user (who hasn't been selected before) to suggest an **album** for everyone to enjoy.

I built a thing and want to tell people about it. Is lobsters the place to do that nowadays? Anyone want to invite me?

First day back to fencing! Don’t break your ankles folks.

It’s interesting to me that the BEAM doesn’t have a specification yet. Is it just that a specification isn’t valuable or that by providing one the current implementation would need to deal with its own past?

The initial setup is complete! Sonor AQX Jazz, Zildjian L80 cymbals, Yamaha hardware, RTOm black holes set. I’ll be able to play this with the kiddo asleep no issues!

Last week of sabbatical. Time flew by. I re-wrote my Slack bot and made tremendous progress learning the drums. Could I have done more? Maybe. One needs to relax occasionally.

Picked up a drum kit. Sonor AQX Jass set, Zildjian L80s, Yamaha hardware, RTOM black holes. It’s going to be so sick.

I’m doing a 16th exercise with Moeller strokes on the right hand at 96 bpm. With the left hand, 48 bpm. Lots of room for improvement!

My #gleamlang re-write is functionally complete. I have a few more tests to complete and then it will be beta time!

I have a Dockerfile and want a managed postgresql and "app platform" connected to GitHub. Who is winning this battle today?

Feeling like a powerful drumming warrior 😂

Just made a step in improving my security practices. Next step, look for more opportunities.

This may be my best one so far.

Tomorrow after physical therapy and drum practice I'm going to start richardhammack.github.io/BookOfProof/ on stream. Math will be done on my remarkable on screen.

Just did: 1 and 3 kick, 2 and 4 snare, 1/4s on high-hat kick, 1/8s on high hat **and** crash on 1. All while counting 1 2 3 4. This is probably the bare minimum expected of a drummer but is a big progression for me!

My wife bought a peloton awhile back. It is effectively worth nothing now. My dinosaur timer is more valuable.

Drum coach: try this thing Me: fails miserably 20 mins later, no drum coach Me: does it fine

I think I’ve always misunderstood the term “strongly typed”. Erlang is strongly typed, C is not.

Sat down with Algebra: Chapter 0 to evaluate if I could even complete it. The short answer: no. New option is probably Book of Proof.

Inspired by @whitep4nth3r.com here is part of my practice today. I’m about 3 weeks in, don’t judge me.

Making a ton of drums progress. Super close to consistent 60 bpm 8th notes with Moeller technique. I can memorize a measure within my “voice” and replay it somewhat consistently (simple ones and slowly). Counting while doing this is hard but working on tricks. Practice. Practice. Practice.

Starting up the stream, dealing with Slack slash commands. twitch.tv/chiroptical #gleamlang

**for early adopters** The WebRacket repo is now public at github.com/soegaard/web... The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly examples github.com/soegaard/web... and racket-stories.com/static/minis... a small Scheme interpreter

Picked up a kick drum pedal/pad for practice. I now have a three piece practice kit! Practice, practice, practice.

Stream is up, working on #gleamlang twitch.tv/chiroptical

One week in and drumming feeling a lot more natural. I can stay relaxed, count, and do the exercises fluidly with minimal goof ups (excluding perfect timing).

Slack interacts commands are nearly done. Very close to being able to do the actual fun part of this project 🙃 Vod if you are curious www.twitch.tv/videos/26689...

Starting up the stream on twitch.tv/chiroptical working on more #gleamlang

we released lustre v5.5.0 last night, here are the highlights: - `element.memo` to cosplay react (and go 2x as fast) - `element.supervised` so you can tell server components to get back to work if they fail - tidier HTML generation - improved hydration of SSR apps 👉 hexdocs.pm/lustre/annou...

If I had a dollar for every time I asked a question in a digital space and then immediately realized what was wrong. I’d have more money than I have now.

Policy idea: no tax on income towards day care expenses

Another stream starting up, working through OAuth stuff for Slack in #gleamlang twitch.tv/chiroptical

I’ll start stream tomorrow around 9 am ET. Adding server side rendered Lustre to my #gleamlang project. See you then!

First drum lesson was on Wednesday. It was awesome. Starting with three limb coordination, timing, and technique exercises.

Looking for people to follow. Are there devs here on Gleam / Elixir / Erlang / FP? If you post or build real stuff, I’m here. #gleam #elixir #erlang #fp

TIL, this is legal #erlang compiles to `t() -> [f, o, o].`

Question: is AtomVM both an Erlang Virtual Machine and an Erlang Runtime System? #erlang

What are your best post-rock recommendations?

First sabbatical stream! www.twitch.tv/videos/26626... finished up my initial Slack API calls, fixed a jacked postgresql installation on my machine, and did some database schema updates. All in #gleamlang. No stream tomorrow, but I'll be back on Thursday!

Making progress on this foaming milk and pouring it into a cup thing

Don't forget to fill in the Gleam developer survey!! developer-survey.gleam.run

I’m officially on sabbatical! I’ll be streaming some #gleamlang and #erlang starting next week!