https://gearsco.de Blog about programming and Gleam en-gb https://www.rssboard.org/rss-2-0-1 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. https://gearsco.de/blog/blog-in-gleam 2026-01-20T00:00:00Z 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. https://gearsco.de/blog/bit-array-syntax 2025-12-18T00:00:00Z By default, Gleam tests come with a timeout of 5 seconds. It's not as easy as you might think to remove it. https://gearsco.de/blog/gleam-test-timeouts 2025-11-25T00:00:00Z