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Giacomo Cavalieri

@giacomocavalieri.me

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I love functional programming and learning new things ✨ Gleam core team member 💕 (he/him)

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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · Jan 3

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...

Sponsor @giacomocavalieri on GitHub Sponsors

Support Giacomo's open source work on Gleam

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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 21h

And it seems like your wish was granted, jj 0.34 shipped jj bisect!

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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 21h

Really cool episode! Coming from git I was mind blown how nice the jj developer experience is

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pontus @p1xelher0.com · 1d

NO YOUTUBE I DONT WANT TO WATCH AUTODUBBED VIDEOS FUCK OFF

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Liz Alfos @touloutoumou.bsky.social · 3d

this meeting could have been a failed Hades 2 run

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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 3d

Gleam would be towering over all other languages

Shinobu @shinobu-dev.bsky.social · 3d

o real motivo por estarem enfiando rust em tudo!

todo app C pipocando de CVE de gerenciamento de memória e overflow? não. é a agenda LGBTQIAPK+.

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Gleam Programming Language @gleam.run · 7d

Did you know Gleam has a playground? ⭐
Thanks to it, you can try Gleam directly in your browser, no installation needed. Perfect for exploring the language, testing snippets or sharing examples with others.
Give it a try: playground.gleam.run

The Gleam Playground

Write, run, and share Gleam code in your browser: a playground for the Gleam programming language.

playground.gleam.run

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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 7d

Gleam is so based for making debug printing part of the langauge

Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 9d

Phew I was getting scared for a second 😪

Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 9d

Wait are you folks dating people?

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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 10d

Cat (This is @hayleigh.dev's baby, Ada)

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10d

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 10d

Uh oh what have I gotten myself into

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Gleam Programming Language @gleam.run · 10d

Gleam v1.13.0-rc1 is out for testing! 🌟
github.com/gleam-lang/g...

Release v1.13.0-rc1 · gleam-lang/gleam

https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/blob/v1.13.0-rc1/CHANGELOG.md

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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 10d

Beetle

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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 10d

And a picnic table (?)

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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 10d

I'm still practicing with small 32x32 frames. Still doing WHA pixel art (brush bug my beloved)

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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 12d

So real ✊😔

Gears @gearsco.de · 12d

"Who wrote this awful code?"
"Oh, it was me. Must have been years ago when I was still learning and wasn't very good"
*checks date*
"Last week??"

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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 12d

Thank you!!

Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 12d

Making the Witch Hat Atelier hats in pixel art was a well fun exercise (except for the Knights Moralis winged hat, that was painful)

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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 14d

Nope! Just wanted to learn how to make pixel art, I find it so charming

Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 14d

Started to learn how to use Aseprite and this shit is fuuun

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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 14d

passing arguments to functions: radically simple, smells like flowers and fresh laundry

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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 15d

Nice! 🐿️

Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 17d

Squiggle Conf was amazing!!

SquiggleConf @squiggleconf.com · 17d

SquiggleConf 2025 was an absolute, incredible blast. We had a wonderful time learning with you all. A HUGE "thank you!" to all our attendees, speakers, sponsors, and volunteers for making this a wonderful experience.

We can't wait to see you in Spring 2027. 💙

Group photo of smiling attendees, speakers, and organizers on stage with "SquiggleConf 2025" on the aquarium Imax screen behind them.

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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 17d

This is adorable!