Brett

Brett

@brett.ooo

🍞 Software Engineer ✨ Gleam enthusiast 📍 NYC

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I'm still on MacOS 15 and iOS 18. Is it time for me to upgrade or should I keep putting it off? I really don't like the look of Liquid Glass but I'm starting to apps that I want to try but would require me to upgrade

I still stumble occasionally trying to use @jj-vcs.dev but that's only because it's given me the confidence to try and do things that I'd never even think to attempt directly with git. And even when I mess up jj undo is such a blessing

I've been having a hard time working on personal projects recently, and I think getting back into more directly creative endeavors like game dev may help. What do people recommend? I'm open to any software/language but right now I'm between diving into Bevy or Godot

Me and my fellow Bills fans saying we want to see a change going into next season:

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the Falcons, free from the shackles of expectation

Alan Cole@alan-cole.bsky.social

Since 2018, the Atlanta Falcons are 53-78 (.405) in games played with playoff eligibility, and 11-4 (.733) in games played after being mathematically eliminated.

Just watched a Samsung ad for their AI features where the actors go to a museum and ask their phone questions about the things on display. Now, I haven't been to a museum as recently as I'd like, but I think they still have those neat little placards next to each exhibit that gives you that info

Continuing my annual tradition of doing advent of code in @gleam.run. It's been a second since I've gotten the chance to write some Gleam and I'm absolutely blown away with how good the LSP has gotten, such a lovely programming experience!

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A bunch of talks yesterday name-dropped Lustre which is so surreal, super wild for folks to just be talking about Your Thing ™️ in the middle of a talk. We're only 18 stars off of 1.9k and I'm desperately trying to get 2k before the end of the year. 🥺👉👈 github.com/lustre-labs/...

github.comGitHub - lustre-labs/lustre: A Gleam web framework for building HTML templates, single page applications, and real-time server components.A Gleam web framework for building HTML templates, single page applications, and real-time server components. - lustre-labs/lustre

Hayleigh is by far one of the best devs I’ve ever met, and an amazing teacher of difficult concepts too! If you’re hiring I can’t sing her praises enough!

hayleigh@hayleigh.dev

i'm putting the feelers out for frontend-y dev rel-y docs-y gigs that are 2-3 days a week. if you know someone looking for someone who can do gleam/elm/react/write words, hit me up 💕

More important than how productive your tools make you is how cool you feel using them. Is my helix, and zellij setup discernibly better than other editors? Probably not. Does doing basic things make me feel really smart? Absolutely

I don’t think I’m getting the most out of jj that I could, but my commits are cleaner and I’m having fun so that’s a win

I don’t know whether I have the font on my ereader so large because my eyesight is getting worse or because the dopamine hit I get from pressing the page turn button is what keeps me reading

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Oh my gosh! Gleam got #2 most admired programming language in the Stack Overflow survey! We're on the podium with Rust and Elixir!

It’s not news that the software that we use seem to be getting worse and worse but it feels like the website versions of apps are getting hit the hardest. Especially on mobile. The bright side is it means I spend less time online out of frustration 🤷

I used to be in the camp of wanting a “native” app for everything but lately I’ve come back around to acknowledging that the web is truly the best most accessible platform for software that we have right now

Preliminary results but so far @tanstack.com Form is amazing. Past form libraries I've used have been so frustrating that I've preferred to just hand role forms myself, but TanStack Form has fixed a lot of those issues

A major disconnect I have with a lot of pro AI arguments is that they make out that doing things like searching something on Google is such a painful experience, and we now no longer need to do it. It's definitely gotten more annoying _because_ of AI, but it's wasn't some huge burden solve?

I find using LLMs useful for certain tasks, but I find it weird that we seemingly have to make up how awful doing things are compared to using an LLM to do them

There are two hawks(?) perched on a tree across from my apartment but they’re just too far away to get a good look at. This is a PSA not to wait to buy your binoculars for birding

Super stoked to see that @gleam.run added support for named processes! This makes it even easier to build out the same kinds of systems that we love in other BEAM languages like Elixir, and Erlang.

I spent way too much time at work figuring out how to deploy a React frontend with a simple backend on Vercel. While I definitely could have just used NextJS the final outcome is a setup that takes less than 30 seconds to deploy. It can even do SSR, and HMR on both the frontend and backend too!

The difficult part of setting this up was a) figuring out Vercel's Output API, and b) wanting a expected experience of just running "pnpm dev" and having both the frontend and backend running with HMR. But now that I've done it I think this may be my setup for small projects going forward

I love helix and have been daily driving it for a few years now, but I just spent the day trying to get prettier and eslint working when they previously worked fine. If anyone has an idea of why the sudden change please let me know 🙏

As a Bills fan I stand by that I support the only real NY football team. That being said it was fun rooting for a truly local team like the Knicks. So now until September all my energy is going to the Liberty!

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If you do stuff in Elixir, Erlang, Gleam, AtomVM or adjacently. You can just ASK to be on BEAM Radio (https://beamrad.io). We do reach out to people but very few people ask. Only the spammers in my inbox. We want to show more of what happens in the ecosystem so don't be shy :) #elixirlang #erlang

Over the last few years I've been building a website for a local co-op, and every time the project would stall I'd end up re-building it from scratch. For this final version I built it in @astro.build and I'm so glad I did! Absolutely the best experience I've had building out a (mostly) static site