Isaac Harris-Holt

Isaac Harris-Holt

@ihh.dev

I sometimes make videos about Gleam. Head of Eng @ Medfin

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Gleam Programming Language
@gleam.run

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! ⭐

Isaac Harris-Holt reposted

Gleam Programming Language
@gleam.run

"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 ⭐

Isaac Harris-Holt
@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.

github.comGitHub - Pevensie/valkyrie: A Redis and Valkey client for Gleam!A Redis and Valkey client for Gleam! Contribute to Pevensie/valkyrie development by creating an account on GitHub.
Isaac Harris-Holt
@ihh.dev

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

Rover@getrover.com

🚀 Launch day 🚀 Rover now scans your PRs for risky changes, alerting you before they merge It catches issues like: * Performance bottlenecks * Broken API contracts * Code that “works” but doesn't match intended business logic

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Lambda Days
@lambdadays.bsky.social

🔹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!

Isaac Harris-Holt
@ihh.dev

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

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Rover
@getrover.com

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

Isaac Harris-Holt
@ihh.dev

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.

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Isaac Harris-Holt
@ihh.dev

I'm disgusted by everything that's come out, and I hope you are too. I hate having cause to write a post like this, but hey-ho. That's enough negativity for now. I hope to leave this behind and celebrate the onset of the new year this evening. Happy holidays!

Isaac Harris-Holt
@ihh.dev

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.

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Isaac Harris-Holt
@ihh.dev

Seeing that taken away from people I know, often with Honey contributing literally nothing to the buyer's shopping experience, and often silently, is heartbreaking, and I'm kicking myself for being stupid enough to use Honey for this long.

Isaac Harris-Holt
@ihh.dev

Frankly, PayPal should know better, and I hope they clean up their act sharpish. Needless to say, I won't be using Honey again, and I've cashed out as much of my "Honey Gold" as I could and will be making a donation to charity matching the value I've accrued over the last few years.

Isaac Harris-Holt
@ihh.dev

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.

Isaac Harris-Holt
@ihh.dev

I'm in a fortunate enough position where the only thing affected by this income is my content, and not my livelihood (I aim to keep the two financially separate), but many small creators aren't that lucky and have to depend on this income to put food on the table.

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Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

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.

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MapleLeaf 🍁
@mapleleaf.dev

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

Isaac Harris-Holt
@ihh.dev

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 😭