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Partial and unfair tour of Gleam

2d ago · 4 min read · I keep hearing people praising systems built on top of the BEAM virtual machine. Unfortunately programming with dynamically typed languages like Erlang or Elixir is really not my thing for production

My first Unison Cloud service

Nov 11, 2025 · 5 min read · I already mentioned on this blog how amazing it feels to program with Unison. Since I started using Unison, I have created several libraries, but I never deployed and used a Unison Cloud service that wasn't just an experiment. Not anymore! Scratching...

Don't look down! Look at the data instead!

Nov 4, 2025 · 6 min read · Story time When I was working at Macquarie Bank in Sydney, I would implement new features for the bonds trading back-office. Then, I would sit down with a business analyst, Greg (if I remember correctly) and he would test various cases with me. One t...

We can do much better

Jan 28, 2025 · 6 min read · I was really taken aback the other day by this piece of Terraform file: variable "db_username" { description = "Postgres username" type = string } The Terraform motto is “infrastructure as code”, but what I see above is a configuration file mas...

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2024 in review

Dec 31, 2024 · 14 min read · This year I decided to do a quick professional retrospective. It’s easier to plan the road ahead when you also have an eye on the rear-view mirror! I can group most of my highlights of 2024 in 3 categories: Becoming a technologist Unison The small...