Gleam Gathering 2026: 21 February, Bristol (UK)

[proud rampart]

Started a thread for ops-shaped folks who found my earlier message interesting!

https://discord.com/channels/768594524158427167/1474922681420746805

[weary tendon]

if you were at GG and you’re not in this list… why??? go fix that immediately omg

[verbal bolt]

Lustre gathering when?

[weary tendon]

thats elm camp they just dont know it yet

[verbal bolt]

I'm struggling to think of anything alliterative other than lustre liaison

[desert spoke]

Wow amazing images ! Wow didn’t think there would be so many people in this room ! Incredible ! 💜
Also I like to see in the picture of the back of the room those two cameras recording those amazing talk I’m sure I will appreciate when they will he available 😏

[thorn patio]

2 trains cancelled and now 5 people squashing to fit in the toilet

an appropriate welcome to the UK

[weary tendon]

par for the course here

[jovial vector]

Hows elm camp? i was debating to go a couple years ago. Not like i do any elm anymore, now that i have lustre 🙃

[desert spoke]

So have you successfully catch a train or are you still blocked in the middle of "nowhere" ^^ 😅 ?

[weary tendon]

elm camp is lovely, im biased because im an organiser but if you’re interested i would thoroughly recommend it

[clever imp]

My train is on time but has been hastily cobbled together from 2 smaller trains and cars have changed their letters 3 times, the last change happening after everyone boarded

[mystic siren]

the authentic experience

[lament kestrel]

y'all missing out on Bristol's rich history

[final comet]

Might have overcompensated my scare for delayed buses and now I have to wait three hours at the airport

[mystic siren]

wow look at those photos

[finite nova]

Same here

Been at the airport for 2 hours already and my flight was delayed as well

[final comet]

Which terminal do you leave from?

[finite nova]

I’m in the Bristol airport tho

[final comet]

Oh

[finite nova]

Yepp 😭

Ain’t it funny that none but the flight I’m taking are delayed

[sacred oxide]

I'm at luton, 3h to flight, but loads of books and audiobooks to keep me company

[tawny crow]

unfortunately I went straight through security 😭

[final comet]

Yeah same

I should have waited more

[tawny crow]

nice not being stressed though
new experience

[sacred oxide]

Amateur. I just fuel my stress by thinking about other things. Gotta keep that anxious voice in my head up!

[mystic siren]

Too much excitment, I'm struggling to stay awake now 😴

[sacred oxide]

I am v happy that I took tomorrow off at work, I will crash so hard

[karmic plinth]

I landed a couple hours ago but found my car wouldnt start. I still have a 3 hours drive

[past linden]

Was there 2h early and asked and Eurostar personnel let me board 1h early

[past linden]

Who was the one evaluating gleam for its k8s driven business? Nice chatting to you

[proven eagle]

Are they hiring?

[past linden]

If I can find the contact 😉 no idea/maybe?

[proven eagle]

Gleam and hiring is a great combination

[desert spoke]

Gleamiring

[gusty saddle]

Lucky

When i took the eurostar to London i arrived like 1h30 early , but they took so long to let us through that i missed the train

They did let us board the next train, but yeah

[weary tendon]

from bxl?

[gusty saddle]

From Paris

[weary tendon]

oo ive never been from paris

[gusty saddle]

Yea it departs from Gare du Nord
It was mostly nice... Except for the delay which was a huge scare 🥲

[clever imp]

Less than 10 mins from my final stop and we are now stuck behind a queue of trains due to 'signalling issues'

[past linden]

Last 20km taking me 2h

[round valve]

last weekend i had to get off a train, walk to another platform, wait for the train to reverse and then go to this other platform, and get on it again

[clever imp]

Signals are stuck on danger aspect (red) so the driver has to call and get clearance to pass each one.

[dusty slate]

But post-trip airport winddowns are the best part! Also shit, we just missed you in that case, wish I browsed through and found you 😛 We're boarding right now

[final comet]

Just boarded too!!

Have a safe flight home 💖

[dusty slate]

Wait, you're not on my plane, are you? Lmao

Likewise!!

[final comet]

Nah I’m flying with British

[dusty slate]

We'll take our yearly selfie next conf too lol

[round valve]

Sorry for your loss

[karmic plinth]

Car battery was empty, i'm halfway through the drive home. I'm exhausted, really gonna need my beauty sleep

[clever imp]

Finally off the train

[proven eagle]

Which one exactly? Hayleigh/lustre?

[finite nova]

Ok I lost my train to Valencia lmao

I might go partying in Madrid until dawn

[clever imp]

Even my final bus was delayed, but I did manage a pub pit stop, make a claim against my delayed train, and they waved everyone onto the bus for free (saved £1)

[gusty saddle]

No delays on my side thankfully, though i couldn't visit Bath as I was exhausted

Sorry @weary tendon , maybe next time we'll have the party train

[proud rampart]

Sorry to hear so many of you ran into travel issues

[mystic siren]

Made it home! Time to sleep for a week

So tired I went the wrong way once I got to London

[proud rampart]

We got to London, had dinner with @vestal nest and then saw a comedy show! Currently exhausted 😴

Chinatown was buuuuuuusy

[gusty saddle]

Well, I'm happy to say I'm now in Berlin 🇩🇪
If I happen to meet anyone in the Typst conf, say hi 😎

[weary tendon]

Well, I'm happy to say I'm now in Berlin
brand new sentences

[gusty saddle]

I'm at least glad i survived the 1h30 flight alright 😂😂

Also, despite not visiting Bath, on the way to the airport i got this very nice Uber driver who took us to see the famous bristol bridge for free

Such a good guy for real

[proven eagle]

Ok, finally at home, pyjama'd and everything

[vestal nest]

We had a dragon come into the restaurant! That was fun

[karmic plinth]

sounds scary

[sacred oxide]

Landed in Warsaw. It's raining more than it was in Bristol

[vast breach]

It was nice and sunny in Bristol today

[sacred oxide]

I got some of the sun on my way to Luton, very sunny (and not delayed) bus ride. The plane was 40 min delayed though

[storm sky]

My bus broke down on its way to Aberystwyth. I guess I have to go after national express as well.
A lotta companies on my hitlist now.
NationalDepress.gov.uk coming soon.

[vestal nest]

Aberystwyth? 👀 What you doing there?

[storm sky]

Someone has to tell the students to chill out with their AI usage. So that's what I'm gonna do. I have a talk at the uni where I'll be yelling at them.

[vestal nest]

Have fun!

If you see my cousin make sure to yell extra loudly at her

[storm sky]

If she's doing compsci I'll make sure to single her out

[vestal nest]

Enjoy Aber though! Nice town

[storm sky]

It really is. Studied here myself and loved every part of it. The only problem with Aber is really finding an excuse to go there

[vestal nest]

Oh nice! I'm from Dolgellau, which is about an hour north of there

[versed rose]

Dear Gleamlings, thank you so much for the gathering! I feel a bit like a tourist in Gleam land, but it was great to see what has been done and what is on the way. And it was so nice to see you (again) in person. Thank you @unkempt cobalt and Laura for organising, and to the Gleam core team for keeping this moving ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

[sacred oxide]

Staying at my bestie's place. She's a gleamlin in spirit - lesbian that loves trains. This is new postcard that she has on display, it says "be grateful I arrived at all, you fucker"

[sacred oxide]

Aaand train time home for me. Polish train. Not a minute delay

[tawny crow]

got home at 1am yesterday, slept for 5 hours, wen't back to the airport because i lost my macbook 💀

but I have her back everythings fine I'm fine

[desert spoke]

That's should have been very stressful !

[tawny crow]

well yeah it was

[proven eagle]

you forgot it somewhere or what

[tawny crow]

left it under my seat on the airplane

[mystic siren]

oh my gosh

I'm so glad you got it back, that sounds so stressful

[cold lake]

oh wow, that would have stressed me out to no end. How good it must have felt to get it back 💜

[tawny crow]

turns out

I'm used to it

[weary tendon]

y'all dont know the half of it honestly

[desert spoke]

I would be dead personally

💀

[proud rampart]

first impressions of london : i really like it

after 24 hours here, ive heard so much french and italian it almost feels like home 😆

[desert spoke]

How did you heard lot of french xD ?

[proud rampart]

just walking around tbh

[proven eagle]

I once left my kindle on the front seat bag. This was a Spanish plane (Iberia). Never saw my kindle again.

[desert spoke]

Oh that's remind me of a game my dad and my uncle like to play when they travel to another country to stop talking french when they see some others french so they don't know we can understand them 😅

[sacred oxide]

I jinxed it, we ended up with 4 min delay 😔

[jovial vector]

Home as well, everything was smooth 😶‍🌫️

[finite nova]

I once was in a plane (Iberia as well) and got a free kindle

[proven eagle]

you get a lot of free stuff, how lucky

[finite nova]

once I get paid I'll pay for that kindle don't worry

[tawny crow]

Should have flown to Germany yesterday could've gotten a free MacBook too

[past linden]

/wave @brittle elbow @versed rose

[lament kestrel]

at some time discord will alow me to upload photos... of more Bristol/Filton history. Airbus, Rolls Royce still here. Concorde was here.

[mystic siren]

Wow

[desert spoke]

MAIS C’EST UN CONCORDE !!!

(Sorry I’m again emotional)

[lament kestrel]

it's the Concorde that last flew, landing in Filton where it waa once built. It's a very thin tube, only four chairs and an isle on the middle. maybe three meters.

[proud rampart]

like a flying pencil

[desert spoke]

Quel majestueux oiseau blanc ce fut 🥲

It's still so sad to think that he'll never fly again.

[mystic siren]

Is there discord a way to view all the images shared in this thread? Like a gallery

[proud rampart]

In mobile there is

Click the name and click “media”

[sacred oxide]

On mobile app only, at least I can't figure a other way

[mystic siren]

Thank you

[vast breach]

Finally made it home after a not-so-perfect day of travel

[vast breach]

On desktop you can sort of do it using the search feature, with the filters in:"Gleam Gathering 2026: 21 February, Britol (UK)" and has:image

[gusty saddle]

@sacred oxide thanks for the cards, can now advertise Gleam in the Typst office 🫡

[weary tendon]

based ikea desks

[gusty saddle]

They're great, the chairs here are also so comfy, my chair at home feels like trash in comparison 😂

[clever imp]

Turns out I did have gleam built on my netbook, v1.5.0. v1.14.0 may take some time

[dusty slate]

based ikea markus

[sacred oxide]

yes! spread the word!

[brittle elbow]

?

[proven eagle]

How many people ended up attending the gathering?

[mystic siren]

60-70?

[finite nova]

If I remember correctly I recall Peter saying 68

[sacred oxide]

Yeah, I think it was either 68 sold tickets or 68 total people

[vestal nest]

Tickets + Speakers + Peter and Laura was 70

Some folks couldn't make it though, so ~65 probably

[sacred oxide]

anyone wants to share their pics of the photos printed with Jen's POS printer? I want to add them to a post about the event 🙏

[stoic girder]

re joking about css being turing complete: https://lyra.horse/x86css/

[vestal nest]

nah this is not okay

[clever imp]

Is this better or worse than Lustre?

[mystic siren]

I think @final comet had one

[final comet]

I have these two in my camera roll!

[proud rampart]

why do i always read POS as piece of 💩

[proud rampart]

too cute

[past linden]

We met at gg in the bar on Saturday evening 🙂

[placid jolt]

Here's mine

[lament kestrel]

Last time I bother you with Bristol history; and how to retain it.

The SS Great Britain, powered by wind or a brutal steam engine. There is nothing subtle about that engine. Like the bridge I showed earlier, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and first of a kind.

[bright nebula]

Hol up.
I have this picture here with me

[terse belfry]

Ok, shot in the dark here. I was peaking at the picture of the GG map with my wife (who is Puerto Rican) and we noticed an X over Puerto Rico?? Did someone come in from the island? So cool. My pic wasn't very high quality but I'm curious 😁

[terse belfry]

Also (super) shameless ask, but if you all wouldn't mind and have a second, would appreciate a ⭐ on the caffeine lang repo (https://github.com/Brickell-Research/caffeine_lang). Thanks 💜

[proven eagle]

@terse belfry I was thinking about what you said on your talk, and how the LS gives you a checklist of things to change in your code. I just worked on a simple change on our codebase (react, elixir, using event sourcing and CQRS) and I had to change 26 files only to get a new input field to persist in the database, but with some compilation errors, failing tests and by iterating a lot.

[proven eagle]

add a link to the website on the about section!

[granite garnet]

I wrote a blog post about GG on my company's engineering blog. The theme I took away from the weekend was one of simplicity and stability, but I went for a shameless clickbait title to try to draw people in and make it a bit fun 😅 Hopefully this helps spread the word to some more folk

https://builders.perk.com/gleam-is-boring-so-i-went-to-a-conference-about-it-8f08a52c3de3

Feel free to share it elsewhere, or let me know if you disagree with anything I wrote. I feel like 2026 is the year Gleam will be a non-controversial choice for bigger organisations and I hope I communicated that in the post 💜

[mystic siren]

Ah thank you!

[desert spoke]

This title make me laugh 😂

[proud rampart]

Pelicans in london!

[sacred oxide]

and what looks like a rabbit in the background

[lament kestrel]

nessy

[brittle elbow]

I wasn't there so not sure if you tagged the wrong person lol

[past linden]

oh really, oh I am sorry.

[past linden]

@versed rose @marsh frigate /wave

[versed rose]

I can vouch for both, your irl presence and your handles @past linden and @marsh frigate! You are both awesome, and it's probably save to talk to each other 😄

[unkempt cobalt]

Thanks so much for all the nice messages. I've read them all. It's great to hear all the people saying they felt welcome. That's also all on you attendees for being such a nice bunch.
Special mention to @lament kestrel for promoting Bristol. Concord is cool right.
Sorry for the slow reply. But thanks once more for all the warm messages.
I had an easy trip home on Sunday, slept for 3hours in the afternoon and was still in bed by 9.
Now I'm recovered organising GG27 seems like a great idea.
I'll do a write up and post a feedback questions to all your emails in the next week.

[proven eagle]

Speaking at GG27, my goal

[desert spoke]

And I hope to be able to go to GG27

[gusty saddle]

GG27 will be even better for sure, let's make it happen

Thank you very much @unkempt cobalt for your hard work, it was truly a special event for all of us

[proud rampart]

Gg 27 BBB: bigger better britisher

[mystic siren]

tally ho!

[final comet]

Aren’t those the playing cards?

[mystic siren]

I presume Britisher means we're going to invade Elm Camp

[proud rampart]

Steal their curry

Thanks for organizing an excellent time @unkempt cobalt , really looking forward to seeing the gleamlins again in person

[weak lake]

Thank you ! It was so great, I learnt gleam AND bouldering. Thoroughly enjoyed.

[weary tendon]

you're all invited!

[carmine vault]

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[carmine vault]

About: How I got Jose to stop worrying and merge the PR? (Stanley pun intended)

[unkempt cobalt]

I really love transport tycoon (Open TTD recently) and a gathering loves trains. 🤔 Is there an angle there. I dunno

[meager hound]

Nice article. Rich Hickey's talks are indeed excellent.

[proven eagle]

I have reinstalled it many times, but haven't done so in a long time. Maybe I should... Implement it in gleam

[carmine vault]

I loved that game, I played if for many many hours

[proven eagle]

depends on it being merged by then or not XD

[timid lotus]

he should do it live on stage. although hopefully it wont take another year (sorry for jinxing it)

[carmine vault]

The talk would be about the got Jose 😄 Not about the pain of creating the PR.

btw, I heard the hearts-emoticons on https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/14262 look cute.

[proven eagle]

honestly I would like to talk about a project I am working on and how I leverage gleam capabilities. It could in fact include using gleam from within an elixir application but that can only happen if the PR is actually merged

[carmine vault]

In a way of best of both worlds?

[proven eagle]

yeah, leveraging the elixir/phoenix ecosystem, writing domain logic in gleam, writing FE with gleam... that sort of thing

[carmine vault]

Yes I hold a dumbed down version of that as a talk in 2022 or so https://github.com/inoas/gleam-elixir-phoenix-liveview-counter/blob/main/lib/meetup_web/live/game.ex

[proven eagle]

allow me to move faster in some areas because I use a dynamic language (and regretting it right afterwards)

[timid lotus]

ruby has left its marks on you

[proven eagle]

it has

[winter stump]

Managed to finish my crochet just before I left Bristol!

[carmine vault]

oh... you were there? I think I didn't say hi; was there a chance you reside in Germany? or do I miss-remember?

tsloughter wasn't there right?

[final comet]

Omg that’s the cutest

[winter stump]

Yeah, we met briefly just before it started on saturday!

[meager hound]

This likely asked before in this 2k+ comment thread, but are there recordings, and if yes when is their estimated publication time (still waiting for that event sourcing talk of last year, by code sync, wonder if they publish with a fixed delay period).

[karmic plinth]

Yes, all talks were recorded. I believe we were asked to be patient and ask again this weekend

[unkempt cobalt]

In my post I said I'd try and get a feedback message out this week.
Talks might take a little longer. Though I'm looking at the first previews right now.

[karmic plinth]

I hope you're getting paid that sweet gleam money for your efforts

[sacred oxide]

speaking of Gleam money

there was a discussion around other ways to sponsor if someone doesn't want to use github: now you can transfer money directly

https://gleam.run/sponsor/

[mystic siren]

Look what's top of lobsters atm https://gram.liten.app/

[cold lake]

Zed updated their Terms of Use in response, in the same day that I published. That’s a win for everyone I think, even if the fork doesn’t live any longer than this 🙂

[karmic plinth]

I am reminded of what train-guy said about using programming for social change or something

[cold furnace]

Does anyone have a list of the lightning talks please? I'd like to remind myself of them all.

[storm sky]

Shouldn't listen to him. He's shady.

[vast breach]

Off the top of my head (in no particular order, titles not accurate):

• Gleam native
• Minecraft data generation
• I forked Zed
• Thermal printing with Gleam
• Don't use Lustre
• opengleametry
• Thoughts on Gleam script?

[karmic plinth]

Something something thankfully the Germans came

[storm sky]

As a father, is it possible to tell a story without involving WW2 in some way? I think not

[karmic plinth]

-> Mentionning WW2
-> Mentionning ancient Rome
Pick one

[storm sky]

-# I totally didn't try to find a link to Rome... Not at all... Turns out there's very little Rome-history in Norway. Just Viking BS.

[weary tendon]

pick both and move to bath 😎

[karmic plinth]

I remember watching Cunk on Britain and her mentionning the roman baths :^)

[weary tendon]

and it bombed in ww2, see!

[cold lake]

can’t imagine how it must feel to be so upset with the trains that you create a whole website about it only to become known as ”train-guy” 🩷

[weary tendon]

i hope that doesnt happen to the zed guy

[past linden]

– Ursula K. Le Guin
nice author / quote 🙂

[storm sky]

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster"

And that was how the "train-guy" was born

[gusty saddle]

Thoughts on Gleam Script? 👀

Maybe confused the last one

Haha

[vast breach]

Oh yeah that was it

I couldn't remember exactly what it was

[gusty saddle]

Next time pay attention to my talk 😠

(just kidding 💜 )

[karmic plinth]

I really hate to be that guy but is there an ETA for the youtube videos of the talks?

[vestal nest]

Within a month I think

There was an email

[karmic plinth]

Oh

[mystic siren]

It's being worked on ATM

[karmic plinth]

ok cool cool thanks

[mystic siren]

That reminds me, I need to send over my slides

[desert spoke]

I miss an email ?

[gusty saddle]

Gave away some Gleam business cards at the Typst conference and here's the result 😂

[sacred oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/evil-evil-laugh-evil-racoon-hehehehe-muhahaha-gif-25486258

@proud rampart see, this is how you do it! That’s why I brought them!

[sacred oxide]

If anyone wants to print those themselves, I will share link to the file 👀

[desert spoke]

Those card are so cool ! Sadly I don’t have anyone physical to convince to try out gleam

[gusty saddle]

That's the wrong mentality, I just gave it to a bunch of people and ran 😂

Gotta let Gleam make its way into their lives 😎

[desert spoke]

Good idea. I go up to a building and I throw them away so wind can make them travel as far they need !

[gusty saddle]

I'd normally agree but I think that might be illegal in some places

[desert spoke]

I’m more afraid of throwing out the window the poor Lucy which never asked anything 😅

[gusty saddle]

Fair enough haha

[desert spoke]

(People don’t do harm to @urban lodge )

[gusty saddle]

But now you know, next time you go to an event or party or even just to a class or something... Basically anywhere... Yeah just give everyone the Gleam business card, it's guaranteed world domination at that point

[urban lodge]

huh

[timid lotus]

ok you definitely have an alert

[urban lodge]

when I get pinged, yes

[gusty saddle]

still true

[urban lodge]

I get a ping

[desert spoke]

Yes… going outside and speaking to other people

[gusty saddle]

[timid lotus]

oh sorry on my phone i didnt see the tag

[urban lodge]

all good haha

[desert spoke]

I did invoke Lucy since she was not fast enough for me to react

[gusty saddle]

no speak just give

[urban lodge]

anyway yes please don't defenestrate me

[desert spoke]

There are still the part of going outside of my house 😅

[timid lotus]

is that wicked vocabulary?

[urban lodge]

even better! french

[gusty saddle]

time to send it over pigeon mail

[desert spoke]

But I may buy a fax and just send to random people pictures of Lucy !

[desert spoke]

Oui c’est a quel sujet !?

[gusty saddle]

might wanna ask @urban lodge for consent first

[desert spoke]

Sure, can I put you into my fax so everyone can see your gleamness !?

[urban lodge]

"defenestrate" means to throw someone out a window, it's an english word but it's borrowed from french

[urban lodge]

have at it lol

[desert spoke]

Now you said that I may have read this word in my head like it was the original french world.

(Même si j’avoue je pense pas souvent a me défenestrer xD Life is too short !)

[sacred oxide]

It’s also most commonly quoted in the context „English doesn’t have a word for the day after tomorrow, but they have this” 😅

[urban lodge]

hmmm I do sometimes depending on how much terraform I have to write that day lol

[urban lodge]

it's a silly language we've got

[timid lotus]

german is actually pretty good with "the day after tomorrow". you just prepend "über" as many times as the days you're referring to "über über über morgen" is the day after the day after the day after tomorrow

[sacred oxide]

Shorter in Polish, we just add „po” (after), so pojutrze and popojutrze

[desert spoke]

après-demain ? Do you count that like a special thing ?

[timid lotus]

and yet again polish is a superior language

[gusty saddle]

it's "depois de amanhã" in portuguese, if you say "depois de depois de (...)" we'll understand, but... it's too long 😔

[urban lodge]

still quicker to say than "the day after tomorrow" though

[cold furnace]

"Friday" is even quicker 😄

[urban lodge]

yeah but that's offset by having to check what day it is

imagine remembering

[gusty saddle]

today must be sunday

[urban lodge]

tbf I do know what day it is today cause I'm ill and it made me miss a £200 appointment, whoop

[gusty saddle]

woah

[desert spoke]

I hate reminder so I will just say the 6

[gusty saddle]

yeah, that sucks :<

hope you get better soon

[desert spoke]

200 money unit !? What kind of appointment is expensive !?

[urban lodge]

thanks much <3

[urban lodge]

being trans in the UK babyyyyy

[desert spoke]

😭

[desert spoke]

I hope you will still be fine 🥺

[urban lodge]

oh yeah it's alright, just a routine checkup I'm missing

it's an expensive bit of bad timing though

[desert spoke]

It’s crazy how every day here I’m always reminded I should probably kick my ass and do HRT but I’m so afraid of everything ! 😭
I still don’t want to have any chance to have regrets later (even if I’m 90% confidant of wanting HRT) but also I don’t want to have certain person chocked by me 😭
I still want to feel safe 😭

Really it’s feel like a jump of faith and praying at the landing life don’t completely to fucked by one decision

(Even if we can argue people against trans people are just jerk. That’s don’t mean it doesn’t hurt)

Anyway I have become #off-topic

[urban lodge]

for the record though, if you've got any questions or anything you're welcome to message <3

it's one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life, but your safety is still a priority and it can be a tough balance to strike sometimes

[desert spoke]

The thing that still rassure me is I’m still 22 and in may I will be 23. I still got plenty of time 😌

I should just learned more to calm down and stress less otherwise I may loose my hair before 2030 😅

[urban lodge]

that's good advice in general haha

[warm vine]

Wow, the subject of @cold lake 's lightning talk is really doing the rounds!
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/gram_cut_down_zed/

[carmine vault]

quickly place gleam ads in gram 😄 😄

[storm sky]

"We see that you're trying to save a .js file. May we suggest Gleam instead?"

[Read more] [Cancel]

-# A neat little dark pattern. "Cancel", does it prevent the save, or does it just stop the suggestion? Who knows. Do you want to risk finding out?

[proven eagle]

We need to provide gram prebuilt binaries. We could host links to them, I don't know, maybe on gleam.run

[mystic siren]

Homepage should have a screenshot of the editor with Gleam in it

[vast breach]

Added Gram to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zed_(text_editor)#Notable_forks

[mystic siren]

Need to add it to the editor sections of the Gleam docs

It has Gleam support out the box, right?

[tawny crow]

yeah!

[vast breach]

https://gram.liten.app/docs/languages/gleam/ Yep

[cold lake]

I will make that happen! And I’ll use @round valve ’s gleam theme. I think you made it, right?

[round valve]

I made one yeah

[mystic siren]

https://github.com/gleam-lang/website/pull/605/changes/cb0be97a204a1508c5fb58a5bf65a447009020ad
🫡

[mystic siren]

Do you have an SVG of the logo I could use in the Gleam docs? 🙏

[gusty saddle]

the business card should cover the entire screen for 5 seconds each time you open Gram (also it should open a random gleam file in your system right afterwards, or create one otherwise)

(bit smaller sorry lol)

[cold lake]

I do!

hah, discord rendered that very nicely

[mystic siren]

Lovely, thank you

[cold lake]

How about this? 😄 My friend drew a happier toad for me https://gram.liten.app And now the screenshot is very gleamy

[carmine vault]

super cool I love it ❤️

[timid lotus]

i better make the next one a good one

[proven eagle]

39,99EUR in cents

[raven tartan]

Not just any friend. One of the most famous developers in Sweden! 🇸🇪 Love it! 💜

[sacred oxide]

Has anyone other than Becca shared their slides anywhere? 👀

[karmic plinth]

Yes! https://github.com/guillheu/Presentations/blob/main/2026/GleamGathering/eve_arbitrage.pdf

[mystic siren]

mine

[gusty saddle]

here are mine, for my lightning talk (from https://github.com/PgBiel/gleam-script-pres)

[terse belfry]

Mine https://brickellresearch.org/slides/gleam-gathering-26.pdf

[vast breach]

Here's mine:

[storm sky]

Chew chew

[jovial vector]

the digicam pic from the arcade bar :) @final comet @finite nova

[finite nova]

love it!!!!!

I wonder who those strange figures are besides to the glowing shirt, looks like Jak and me but can't discern

[carmine vault]

disco disco

[timid lotus]

just found the GG coaster in my jacket that I hadnt worn since then 🤩

[carmine vault]

I am using them with my board game friends who are mostly hackers, too 😄
They thought it meant good game 😄

[timid lotus]

yeah thats what my colleague thought when he came into the office 🤣

[final comet]

Oh yeah the coasters… the coasters I def took only one of

[karmic plinth]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1356290694385373234/1481589278117990420/PXL_20260312_094621571.jpg?ex=69b3dd0a&is=69b28b8a&hm=ac7c7cff6883d220fe77ffdfb95e74ce75bfd4a27d6cfc943f9edcf8ff153b83&=&format=webp&width=934&height=700

(Ignore the heretical book on the side)

[cold lake]

I need to get a Gleam mug (but I like my mug too)

[proven eagle]

that's to work on the gleam compiler, it's fine

[weary tendon]

just sayin

[round valve]

yeah but that's right after my wedding

so soz but no thanks

😂

[sacred oxide]

um, excuse me? Glob made GG in Bristol their honeymoon, surely yours can be code beam in Haarlem? 😤

[desert spoke]

You are getting married ? Congratulations !

[round valve]

yeeee :3

thanks

[proud rampart]

Huzzah

[past linden]

Cathrine the Great?

[proud rampart]

?

huzzah is just a word

[past linden]

Oh I just meant The Great https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_great

[sacred oxide]

Huzzah always makes me think about this serie!!

[past linden]

it is such a twisted series.

[proven eagle]

That's a lot of tomatoes

[weary tendon]

well it was a nice idea trying to get folks to submit 🥲

[sacred oxide]

Instead they go and get married 🙄 I swear, kids these days…

[urban lodge]

dw I'm not getting married

[weary tendon]

are you submitting a talk to code beam europe though

[urban lodge]

I fear I don't have much BEAM-y to talk about

[mystic siren]

nonsense

[urban lodge]

you reckon?

[mystic siren]

talk about bikes, everyone likes bikes

but more seriously, everyone overestimates how fancy they need their stuff to be to do a presentation

[urban lodge]

hmmm I do like bikes

but nah I'm with you there, thing is my only stuff right now is half a chess engine haha

[mystic siren]

just do Gears' talk 😎

[urban lodge]

which one's that? I still haven't watched the recordings

[tawny crow]

the recordings have been released?

gears talk was about optimising chess bots ^.^

[urban lodge]

ah yeah I remember there was a good reason I hadn't watched them yet

[urban lodge]

it's a shame with girlchesser though, we got the move generation done and the beginnings of a search but then I started my new job and hayleigh was busy with loads of things iirc, so it kinda didn't get any further

[weary tendon]

i reckon we coulda had a real shot too x.x

[round valve]

do we know when the recordings are being released btw

[urban lodge]

yeah me too, and I was so glad to be finished with the tedious bits and onto the fun stuff

[unkempt cobalt]

I hope it's soon. Had a few issues sorting them out.

[desert spoke]

🙏

[karmic plinth]

Thanks for posting here, I know what to do now... Time to crash the Eve servers

[gusty saddle]

Jeez, why such a drastic response to hayleigh's message, no need to disrupt others' experiences for no good reason! 😤

[unkempt cobalt]

Quick note. We have decided we're for sure running a GG 2027. (The website says so https://gleamgathering.com/)
We're looking at dates and venues. Probably similar time of the year, possibly not Bristol next time. (Even longer possibility but we're having a look at what we need to do to organise one outside of the UK, which might also happen next year.)
p.p.s. I'm still working on the videos. Sorry about the delay

[sacred oxide]

Outside of the UK but Europe? 👀 I can recommend this nice country called Poland 🤔

[desert spoke]

I'm not Belgium but please give me a reason to visit Belgium ^^

[weary tendon]

i'm not reason enough??

[karmic plinth]

Sounds like we'll need a poll

maybe a poll-and

🥁

[weary tendon]

i mean im a bit biased but hey there's a reason bxl is the capital of europe 👀

[round valve]

Oh heck yeah

[proud rampart]

Yall we could rent a whole village in southern Italy …

[round valve]

not sure i'm gonna apply to talk this time though 😂

[proud rampart]

But I’m okay with Brussels too :p

[weary tendon]

i heard the after party is at hayleigh's place

[proud rampart]

Hayleighconf

Let’s do Norway so John can take us on a train tour

[past linden]

It would be great if it is accessible by european railways in a good manner - to safe kerosene where possible 🌍

[round valve]

I propose we do the conf in Northampton
-# just kidding, northampton is dreadful 😂

[weary tendon]

i heard belgium is excellently connected to european railways

[proud rampart]

Ooooo Antwerp train station 🥰

[round valve]

trains

[desert spoke]

[proud rampart]

At that point might as well go further north, gleam conf Edinburgh

[weary tendon]

theres that berlin<->bxl sleeper train now which is so good

[round valve]

northampton is in the midlands

barely north

[proud rampart]

Not my fault yall are directionally challenged smh

[tawny crow]

is it though
you wake up and you're in berlin

[round valve]

should be called midampton

because it is so mid

[vast breach]

Not if you're going the other way

[weary tendon]

yeah but counterpoint, it goes the other way too 🧠

[round valve]

but then you wake up in bxl

not sure that's much better

[vast breach]

True

[tawny crow]

close your eyes and wait until the nightmare's over i feel

[proud rampart]

Free waffle on arrival

[weary tendon]

and its the good kind too

[sacred oxide]

Finally a reason I could use the newest emoji - eyeroll lucy

[vast breach]

I feel like somewhere in NL would be good for a conference

I've also never been and I want to go

[weary tendon]

thats basically belgium depending on who you talk to

[proud rampart]

Hayleigh out here fanning some flames

[karmic plinth]

and basically france since belgium is basically france too

[weary tendon]

yeah but i've heard nobody wants those bits

[desert spoke]

Je pense que tu risque d'énever certaine personne xD

[bright nebula]

Liechtenstein. Just rent out the entire country

[weary tendon]

gleam gathering vatican when

[karmic plinth]

probably 2000$

[weary tendon]

gleam conclave

if you say glonclave now you get banned

[sacred oxide]

Poland is cheaper, just sayin…

[karmic plinth]

In the canaries maybe?

wouldnt mind some sun

[tawny crow]

I heard hayleigh has a really easy way to get to berlin

[karmic plinth]

to transit to poland, sure good idea

[vast breach]

I heard Portugal's a nice place...

[weary tendon]

i would so fuck with portugal

[vast breach]

Tbh though I'd probably rather go to a conf somewhere I haven't been before because then I get to go to a new place

[proud rampart]

Shit I’ve been preempted

[weary tendon]

like czechia 😌

[round valve]

what're the logistics of this

[tawny crow]

the gleam beach episode

[karmic plinth]

I'd like Poland (so long as it's not Gdańsk)

[proud rampart]

I hear croatia is pretty

[bright nebula]

slovenia best balkan nation

[desert spoke]

I hope one day to have the chance to also travel to Germany. I maybe too stupid to understand deutsch but Germany really look like a cool place to travel

[vast breach]

Oh I heard Gdansk is lovely

[karmic plinth]

not what my polish friend keeps saying

[terse belfry]

Just moved to the east coast USA so I’m closer this round 💪

[proud rampart]

Gleamlins rent out Neuschwanstein castle

[bright nebula]

that's just down the road from me :3

[weary tendon]

one foot out of the grave, you got this

😂

[proud rampart]

Ooo where to

[vast breach]

True

(It's the only one I've been to)

[terse belfry]

Florida 🤣

[weary tendon]

nvm

[proud rampart]

RIP

[weary tendon]

60 feet under

[proud rampart]

Rob living that snowbird lifestyle

[terse belfry]

Don’t judge it’s so nice. The area we’re in is a pocket that has so many pride flags.

[desert spoke]

At this point why not going to Montreal ?

[proud rampart]

Yaaaaaaaaaaassss

[bright nebula]

once Canada joins EU we can do that

[desert spoke]

(I should stop pointing country where people can speak in French, people will think I don't like not french people 😅)

[karmic plinth]

and yet noone's suggested france yet

🤔

[weary tendon]

who wants to go there

[bright nebula]

I mean. I would be down for Reunion. It's still a domestic flight 😄

[weary tendon]

full of french people

[karmic plinth]

precisely

[proud rampart]

Says the one suggesting Belgium

[weary tendon]

your turn to fan the flames again

[desert spoke]

No, it's too much overrated

[proud rampart]

Hey I’ve met lots of actual French people in Belgium

They seem to love escaping France

[weary tendon]

they probably just got lost

[karmic plinth]

I think it's correctly rated, which is down in the sewers

[weary tendon]

LOL

ok lets reign it in

[desert spoke]

Well that would save me hours in a plane xD

[weary tendon]

rein?

[vast breach]

Peter opening Discord again after 15 minutes, hoping for a couple of place suggestions, but just finding this mess

[karmic plinth]

rain

[proud rampart]

Gleamlins x Paris Syndrome

[sacred oxide]

it has nice old town part, but it's also a part of Tricity (Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia) and those three combinded should appeal to everyone

love how every thread ends up as Polish education thread

[proud rampart]

that’s cause you’ve embraced your role as Polish educator

[desert spoke]

Tbh I don't know if I could escape my French Island for something else. Like it's too cozy to living on a rock with a volcano 🌋

[round valve]

I think Paris would be a great idea
-# not because of the country, there's a small little relatively unknown theme park i want to go to

[weary tendon]

yeah i cant wait for nobody to be able to afford that

[tawny crow]

i can't be the only one who first thought that was just a name with "g" put in front of it because gleam

[weary tendon]

💀

[karmic plinth]

1500$ ticket and the venue is the basement of a bar

yeye lets do paris

[weary tendon]

you get it

[desert spoke]

Me too I want to go to the Parc Astérix ^^

[karmic plinth]

Let's host it at my mom's place

[sacred oxide]

YES! Gleam afterparty at Asterix Park ❤️

[weary tendon]

hey if it conf was in belgium it'd just be a short train ride to the after party

😎

[proud rampart]

Gleam conf at the Brussels comic book museum

[round valve]

what the heck is Asterix Park? 😂

[sacred oxide]

German version is Danzig, so really, Poland just gleamified the name

[round valve]

is it like a b-tech disneyland?

[karmic plinth]

I'd love an excuse to go to Poland honestly

[bright nebula]

lets do it in Krakow, one week before lambda days

[round valve]

i didn't say i wanted to go with any of y'all 💀

[proud rampart]

Danielle just out here flexing on the rest of us

[weary tendon]

too expensive for u init

😎

[urban lodge]

*belgium but the roads are smooth

[desert spoke]

It's a theme park around the Astérix license. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix

[weary tendon]

TRUE

[proud rampart]

Is Belgium also known for bad roads

Just like Quebec 💜

[weary tendon]

yeah

[urban lodge]

I did a choral tour that went through belgium and nl, one of my dutch friends was joking that I'd be able to feel the difference as the bus crossed the border

I went "ha ha, very funny" but then no, she was spot on

[proud rampart]

We say that about Quebec and Ontario

[urban lodge]

is ontario known for good roads?

[proud rampart]

No, just less bad than us

[urban lodge]

I was gonna say, unless ontario has made some real strides in the last couple of decades, I don't remember it being anywhere near dutch standards

[proud rampart]

No no their roads are also shite, ours are just worse 😂

Pothole size is practically a point of pride here 🙈

[sacred oxide]

2026 cancelled, 2027 not confirmed yet 🙁

[weary tendon]

so disappointing it was cancelled this year

easily my favourite conference

[bright nebula]

D:
did they give a specific reason?

[sacred oxide]

moneyz

[bright nebula]

Wait. we can become the new Lambda days. Glambda days. Krakow was a really cool place last time i visited.

[urban lodge]

slower, residential dutch streets are sooooo nice

they're made of bricks called clinkers (cause they go clink if you hit them together), so if there's any damage to the street surface or any works underneath, they just lift the bricks and put new ones there instead

[weary tendon]

woah ai made their roads??

oh clinkers not clankers

[urban lodge]

yeah no these are lightning-free rocks

[desert spoke]

No lambda days ?

From watching youtube it was looking so great 😭

[weary tendon]

we'll organise our own lambda days 🥺

i heard brussels is a great place to host a conference

[desert spoke]

Also people tell "Paris" but you know the south of France exist too 😉
Why not Toulouse 😉 😉 😉

[proud rampart]

gleam gathering aix-en-provence

[bright nebula]

What have you got to lose?

[desert spoke]

I have friends living at aix-en-provance ^^

[desert spoke]

I did not understand your question 😅

[proud rampart]

wordplay, "toulose" sounds like "to lose"

[desert spoke]

[proven eagle]

Apparently I am going to Poland every year then

[sacred oxide]

yes! will you be staying in Warsaw for some sightseeing before/after the concert?

[desert spoke]

For now from everything I reed. It’s between Belgium and Poland !

(I like poll)

[proven eagle]

I am here drinking coffee in a Solidarinosc mug I bought in Gdansk

[sacred oxide]

uh-oh, Peter is back

sorry, Peter 😇

[unkempt cobalt]

yep. my local coffee shop doesn't have any signal. and well yeah. Though more train chat is great

[unkempt cobalt]

yeah this is a fair point. I'd love to discover what the Bristol of Poland, or France actually is.

All I really hear is not Gdansk.

Which we can probably deliver on.

Though I heard it had good lighthouses and actually I'm quite keen to visit Gdansk

[desert spoke]

Tbh you make me so curious of Bristol ! before that it was a name I never heard (I'm quite bad with map)

(Don't ask me any question about where city are placed on my island 👀)

[vast breach]

People always talk about Paris but no one ever mentions French Guiana

[sacred oxide]

Łódź 🥳

[desert spoke]

Or Mayote or Guadeloupe or other overseas department ^^

[proven eagle]

No, precisely I visited it last summer 😄

[karmic plinth]

I think that's just me lol

[karmic plinth]

Might do my masters there in 2027, we'll see. I'd still prefer Prague I think

[sacred oxide]

😮 Poland or Łódź specifically?

[karmic plinth]

Łódź

[desert spoke]

What is this word ? Look like a secret message I don’t know how to type on my keyboard ?

(At least it’s not vietnames characters)

[oak haven]

Łódź means boat

It is a city in the center of Poland.

[vast breach]

(And where Kamila lives)

[proven eagle]

That's were a boat belongs

[final comet]

Most important fact about Łódź

[vast breach]

Only fact I know about it

[sacred oxide]

Then read up, there will be a pop quiz at some point

[sacred oxide]

It is decided then 😌

[karmic plinth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgfzH_WBlr4

[gusty saddle]

Ermahgerd it's happening!!!!