Time to wrap up the year, let’s look at some numbers 🤓 But before we do: thank you everyone for supporting Gleam's journey in 2025! Huge thank you to every contributor, sponsor, supporter, to all the Gleamlins and Gleam-curious people. You rock! ⭐

I haven't posted any Gleam videos in a little bit, but that doesn't mean I haven't been doing anything at all! Try this one on for size 👀 youtu.be/JxvCtkTPd9g?...

I look so smug here... but it's actually quite a nice frame

@ihh.dev CTO @ Rover teases his journey into becoming a GLEAM Guy. Hear him out and join him at Code BEAM Europe 2025! Save your spot. codebeameurope.com/talks/how-i-...

✨ Gleam Ecosystem Growth at CodeBEAM Europe 2025! Hayleigh Thompson, Meks McClure, Michael Buhot, @runlevel0.me & @ihh.dev explore type safety, BEAM integration & functional modeling codebeameurope.com#speakers

🚀 6 must-see talks at CodeBEAM Europe 2025: Gleam careers, workflow orchestration, VPP with Elixir, security disasters, BEAM+Rust combo, and taming 20M Oban jobs! Featuring @ihh.dev @maennchen.dev codebeameurope.com#register

"We’ve started using Gleam to orchestrate all of the background jobs that happen in our system. Gleam’s type system, along with classic BEAM goodness like supervision trees, has given us total confidence that our code will handle just about anything we throw at it" - @ihh.dev ⭐

I have once again been nerd-sniped by @lpil.uk into writing a Gleam package. This time, it's a lightweight, high-perf client for Redis-compatible databases, called Valkyrie! The library includes a connection pool, and has been tested against Redis, Valkey, KeyDB and Dragonfly.

I'm trying to watch Doctor Who but keep getting distracted by work. Caffeine is a bitch.

And now we're coming up to some @gleam.run with @ihh.dev ! Who basically youtubed himself into @gleam.run / the gleambassador! @codebeam.bsky.social Stockholm

There was a bug. It's now 11pm. Damnit.

Deploying to prod at 5pm on a Friday? Try 8pm on the Friday before I leave the country for @codebeam.bsky.social Lite Stockholm 😎

Hey folks, it's been a little while since I've released a video. Here's one talking about how to decode dynamic data in Gleam - a super important topic! Take a look 👀 youtu.be/JPGiHrtWJCg

Check out what we've been working on for the past little while!

can 100 unarmed vibecoders defeat 1 security audit

🔹Giacomo Cavalieri & Isaac Harris-Holt: Talks on #Gleam at Lambda Days 2025🔹 @giacomocavalieri.me dives into #Squirrel, a Gleam library for #type-safe #database access, while @ihh.dev explains how Gleam can simplify #backend architecture. 🎟️ Don't miss their talks on the Lambda Days agenda!

What happens when you fall into a new language by accident? @ihh.dev ’s journey into Gleam proves it might just be the best mistake you ever make. codebeamstockholm.com/talks/Jumpin...

When asked what they liked about Gleam, developers responded with: "It's very braindead" "Gleam is Haskell for normies" "The core team is very fasionable" "I don't have to configure TS" I think I've picked the right language

The Rover bot just stopped us from shipping a buggy feature to prod (again). You get: a better experience exploring your codebase graphs we get: to not waste another development cycle fixing it #devtools #softwaredevelopment #dev

Rover's own @ihh.dev takes us through how we implemented our own ReBAC auth system in our latest blog post Somehow, it's the least painful infra work we've ever done getrover.substack.com/p/how-we-rew... #devops #buildinpublic #dev

If you're wondering where I've been over the last little while (and why there haven't been many videos), this is it!

With the Rover public beta now open, treat yourself to a little coffee break and read about the problems with software incidents that inspired us to build getrover.substack.com/p/introducin... #devtools #dev #softwareengineering #launchday

Hello, Mars #launch #startup #software #buildinpublic #devtool

It's announcement time! For a bit of fun, I'm hosting a Gleam chess bot tournament. Details here👀 youtu.be/YOQTAI0KA9M

People who espouse "journey over destination" have clearly never paid for a London cab

Hey folks! It's time for a new video. Statically-typed languages are fantastic. A true blessing to society. But you're probably not using them properly. youtu.be/dMtZdPiMfb0?...

Hot chocolate with water is just worse

I don't get why people watch F1 when Mario Kart is the same thing but better

Turning your bedroom into a recording studio is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

If you like Gleam and want to help me keep working on it please consider sponsoring me, it would mean the world 💖 github.com/sponsors/gia...

My resolution this year, rather than being a goal I know I won't hit, is simply to "Try Anything Once". Anything you recommend?

Not bad for a second ever run 😎

For those who don't really get why creators are making a big deal of the whole Honey drama, 91.8% of my income this year (excluding refunds) has been from affiliate revenue. If Honey worked on the sites I'm affiliated with, I probably would've lost thousands.

Homemade acoustic panels coming along nicely

I travelled to my parents by electric assist bicycle this Christmas. It was really fun and satisfactory practical! Give it a go! Cycling is fantastic for the body and the local community.

By the way, folks, I've just released V1 of Pevensie, my backend application framework for Gleam! It's taken a little longer than I would've liked, but it's here. Use it to get your Gleam APIs off the ground quickly! github.com/Pevensie/pev...

Woah! Pevensie hits 1.0! Congrats to @ihh.dev! Pevensie is a backend application framework for @gleam.run that comes with drivers for things like authentication and caching. This is really exciting!! hexdocs.pm/pevensie/ind...

honestly, one of my favorite things about gleam is the namespace separation i can have a module, function, and variable all named "grid" and not run into name conflict issues that, on top of variable shadowing, makes naming things so... fearless

What is it with every app having a Spotify Wrapped equivalent these days? Thanks Crunchyroll, but I don't need to know that I've spent 400 hours watching anime 😭

How am I only just now watching Arcane?? It's like, so good

Recursion is hard, but it doesn't have to be! I decided that Gleam is a simple enough language for teaching the concept, so I made this :) youtu.be/debOFwJyXyk?...

Average British interaction: Me: *holds door open for someone* Them: Thank you Me: Thank you Them: You're welcome Both of us:

Don't be this guy.

I will never understand how people condition themselves not to want (need) a sweet treat after every meal

Hey folks! We're hosting another Gleam Meetup in London in time for Christmas! Come along for drinks, chat and festive cheer! Sign up at the link here: meetdown.app/group/58acfb...

Join us!

God, I do pull some funny faces when recording

Woo! I've also thrown my hat in the ring. Make sure to sign up for a notification of when early bird tickets are out! www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays20...

Gleam v1.6.3 is out now, with a fix for compiling on older versions of Erlang/OTP github.com/gleam-lang/g...

Friendly reminder not to include your AoC inputs in your public Git repos :)