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The collaborative internet

How the internet should be, and how we can make it better

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Building a Blog in Gleam

2026 is the year of blog posts, or so I hear. The thing is, there are so many options that you can use to make your blog, many of which are very complicated and feature rich – and sometimes you just want to start writing, and not have to deal with all that complexity.

Making the Most of Bit Arrays

Gleam has a special piece of syntax that most other languages don't: Bit arrays. They are extremely powerful, but unfortunately the documentation is a little sparse.

Test Timeouts in Gleam

By default, Gleam tests come with a timeout of 5 seconds. It's not as easy as you might think to remove it.