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Louis Pilfold

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"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 · 2d

Funny how much big company stuff works like this.

Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 6d

Thank you!

Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 6d

If you search for "gleam programming book" they're easy to spot.

Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 6d

Tell me about it. The height of rudeness

Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 8d

Hum, looks like I cannot, possibly due to my amazon account being unused for several years

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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 8d

I've just learnt that there's many AI generated e-books about Gleam on amazon, all incredibly inaccurate.
Is there anything I can do prevent people wasting their money on these?

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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 9d

Ah! I didn't know that! Thank you.

Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 9d

Yes, I think that is the problem with all these names. It sounds like they describe what is being supervised.

Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 9d

Someone* submitting

Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 9d

Pull request! Some submitting a proposal for changes to code that I am responsible for.
It's an odd social dynamic as they're both doing some work for free, but accepting the gift also requires work (verifying the code and then maintaining it in future), however many people don't realise that.

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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 9d

Honestly the PR quality was good, just not very impactful and wasn't discussed or planned beforehand, so it was very low in my priority list.
I've not got enough time for everything!

Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 9d

I would looooove someone to explore this, and to make atproto related packages.
It's not something I have a good excuse to spend time on myself, unfortunately.

Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 9d

That's really interesting. Does it look for /Note: \[.*+\]/ ?

When are some times you use this feature? Seems like it could be useful but I'm not sure where I'd use it in my workflow.

Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 10d

Mmm, it seems to me that it being OTP code and the word "supervisor" would make that unlikely to happen. There's not a concept of supervision relating to text.

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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 10d

"I want my un-requested PR to be reviewed faster. Should I sent a polite reminder, or even sponsor the maintainer? No, I'll send them a long aggressive message instead!"

- some guy in my DMs, for some reason

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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 11d

Why is template supervisor your least favourite of these?

Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 14d

Yeah I felt similar! Unsure if that baggage is helpful or not.

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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 14d

Elixir has a `DynamicSupervisor`, but that has a different design that is dynamic in some additional ways.
Given the different designs I think different names would be beneficial.

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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 14d

What might be a better name for "simple one for one" supervisor?
aka: supervisor where at-start you give it a process-staring function, and when running you can call `start_child(some_argument)` to have the supervisor use the function to start and supervise a new child instance.

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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 16d

Thanks!

Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 16d

That's interesting! When do you do go for that?

Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 16d

Erlangers! What restart strategy do you use typically for your simple_one_for_one supervisors?
1. permanent
2. transient
3. temporary

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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 16d

It was a PR to the build tool exposing more of the Erlang/OTP application configuration in `gleam.toml`. We've got something super nice for Gleam/OTP applications, and it'll make use of this
github.com/gleam-lang/g...

Add erlang.application_start_argument configuration by lpil · Pull Request #5000 · gleam-lang/gleam

The previous configuration allowed the programmer to set the module, but not the argument. This is now supported. In future they may be a more sophisticated system for defining stateful OTP applica...

github.com

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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 16d

Happy 5000th PR/issue to Gleam!

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Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk · 18d

Something up with GitHub Actions? The status page says it's fine, but I keep getting network errors.