Louis Pilfold

Louis Pilfold

@lpil.uk

"the maintainer is a legitimate communist. i will not be supporting this language" - some yt guy, 2024 I made @gleam.run and I do gymnastics (badly) they/them or he/him. end fossil fuels. genocide is bad. ride a bike.

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Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

Hey that's me!

Code BEAM@codebeam.bsky.social

The Gleam Language Update, from the person who started Gleam: @lpil.uk, Track 1, now. Whatever shipped this year, you're about to hear it first-hand. #CodeBEAM #Gleam

Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

Rebecca somehow fitting everything I know about programming on a single slide

Tobias Pfeiffer@pragtob.bsky.social

Really nice illustration of the cycle of developing an application, identifying concepts and extracting them by @becca.monster !

Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

Can you build tool display any CVEs that your project's dependencies have? If so, can you share with me a screenshot of that that looks like please 🙏

Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

Windows peeps! Is there a directory that is on your PATH by default that the Gleam install docs should recommend you use for the precompiled binaries?

Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

It is wild that Jak rewrote the entire backend of the Gleam compiler from scratch and nothing has broken

Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

Giving $300,000 to the world's most well funded collection of Arch Linux dotfiles is a really odd decision, and that's before the politics of the project.

Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

Tonight is the night! See you later, London peeps!

hayleigh@hayleigh.dev

london gleamlins, come join us on the 18th of august for a meetup! @renatillas.dev will be talking to us about event sourcing, and i'll of course be preaching the good word about #atproto and maybe there'll be a little surprise launch too 🤭 luma.com/vacn20ag

luma.comGleam London Summer Soirée · LumaCan you believe it's been six months since Gleam Gathering?! Come join Louis, Hayleigh, and other gleamlins for a little summer get-together at Heist…
Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

another post in which I bang on about how companies should support their open source dependencies

Gleam Programming Language@gleam.run

Happy to say we were in an excellent position in terms of security before the program even began! ⭐ But there were still things we learned from @securitylab.github.com! Check @lpil.uk's key takeaways from the @github.com Secure Open Source Fund program: gleam.run/news/help-fr...

gleam.runHelp from the Github Security Lab | Gleam programming languageGleam's takeaways from the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund program.
Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

Bravo @jtdowney.com for adding password hashing algorithms Erlang's crypto module! So many NIFs can be removed from so many web applications when this is released, hype! github.com/erlang/otp/p...

github.comcrypto: add crypto:kdf/4 by jtdowney · Pull Request #11301 · erlang/otpAdd a crypto:kdf/4 NIF backed by OpenSSL's EVP_KDF, supporting argon2, hkdf, scrypt, sskdf, and pbkdf2 with option maps. This was something I had proposed on Erlang Forums and also discovered i...
Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

Aha! I can finally talk about this! I've been itching to spread the word and share some learnings. Thanks again to Microsoft and GitHub for inviting Gleam into the program, it has been fantastic.

GitHub@github.com

In Session 4 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund, 50 projects upgraded their security posture through AI-assisted workflows, maintainer expertise, GitHub security tools, and more. As AI changes how software is built, maintainers remain at the center of protecting the open source ecosystem. 👇

github.blogWhat 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI eraSee how the projects in the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund combined AI-assisted workflows, maintainer expertise, and more to improve project security.
Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

I have a project to stream! Now I just need it to be cool enough in my flat for it to be tolerable to wear a tshirt. No one needs to see that.

Louis Pilfold@lpil.uk

Maybe I should stream again

Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

Can anyone recommend a way to continuously send photos taken on my iphone to a Linux server? I've used a few things but haven't been totally happy with anything yet. Currently using Immich but I'd love something lighter for just sync files.

Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

Went to the pub with some Gleamlins this evening, what a lovely bunch!! Even more looking forward to meetup on the 18th now.

Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

Firefox's URL autocompletion has totally broken for me for some reason. At first it was annoying, but now after a couple days I'm quite liking it? My web browsing is much more intentional now, and I'm not habitually opening the news and social media as often.

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Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

The most focused I've been was around the same time I was experimenting with running my workstation without x11 or any graphical UI at all. This is obviously a bit extreme and impractical, but perhaps I should experiment with stripping everything back once more.

Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

Firefox's URL autocompletion has totally broken for me for some reason. At first it was annoying, but now after a couple days I'm quite liking it? My web browsing is much more intentional now, and I'm not habitually opening the news and social media as often.

Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

I've been thinking quite a bit these days that a frictionless experience may be a local-maxima overall. A healthy brain and strong attention-span brings much more benefits to my life than a more convenient computing experience.

Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

See you there folks!

hayleigh@hayleigh.dev

london gleamlins, come join us on the 18th of august for a meetup! @renatillas.dev will be talking to us about event sourcing, and i'll of course be preaching the good word about #atproto and maybe there'll be a little surprise launch too 🤭 luma.com/vacn20ag

luma.comGleam London Summer Soirée · LumaCan you believe it's been six months since Gleam Gathering?! Come join Louis, Hayleigh, and other gleamlins for a little summer get-together at Heist…