Louis Pilfold

Hi, I'm Louis.
I make all manner of software things and I created the Gleam programming language.
Appreciate my work? Throw a few quid my way.

Writing

• Using Gleam JS with Elixir's Phoenix

  11 Jan, 2023

• Deploying Gleam on Fly.io

  19 Jun, 2022

• Hello, Gleam!

  15 Apr, 2019

• How to make a programming language

  11 Feb, 2017

• Nesting is a CSS anti-pattern

  16 Oct, 2016

• Using Supercollider with Vim on Linux

  28 Sep, 2014

• i3wm: Opening applications in the scratchpad

  25 Aug, 2014

Speaking

It's less Shakespeare and more programing conference these days.

• Building a Type Safe OTP

  09 Sep, 2022 - CodeBEAM Brazil - The internet!

• Gleam: Lean BEAM typing machine

  09 Jul, 2020 - Elixir Berlin - The internet!

• Gleam: Lean BEAM typing machine

  29 Apr, 2020 - Code BEAM V - The internet!

• Gleam: Lean BEAM typing machine

  07 Nov, 2019 - Code Mesh 2019 - ILEC Conference Centre, SW6

• Gleam: Lean BEAM typing machine

  11 Oct, 2019 - Code BEAM Lite Berlin 2019 - BETAHAUS, Berlin Neukölln

• Gleam: Extreme BEAM typing machine

  25 Aug, 2019 - The London Elixir Meetup

• Getting Pretty Serious

  17 Aug, 2017 - Elixir LDN Conference 2017 - 155 Bishopsgate, EC2

• Exploring Interpretation

  29 Mar, 2017 - The London Elixir Meetup - Skills Matter CodeNode

• A Look at Elixir

  26 Sep, 2016 - Red Badger Engineering Day

• Build Your Own Elixir

  22 Sep, 2016 - Elixir LDN Conference 2016

• Fashioning a Faster Feedback Loop

  26 May, 2016 - The London Elixir Meetup - GoCardless

• 100 Seconds of Sonic Pi

  11 Dec, 2015 - ROLI Team Time

Reading

1. 2023

   1. A Lot of People Are Saying

      The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
      By Nancy L. Rosenblum, Russell Muirhead

   2. Ain't I a Woman

      Black Women and Feminism
      By bell hooks

   3. The Feckin' Book of Irish History

      for anyone who hasn't been paying attention for the last 30,000 years
      By Donal O'Dea, Colin Murphy

2. 2022

   1. The Art of WebAssembly

      By Rick Battagline

   2. Capitalism Realism

      Is there no alternative?
      By Mark Fisher

   3. Poverty: A Very Short Introduction

      By Philip N. Jefferson

   4. You're Cute When You're Mad

      Simple Steps for Confronting Sexism
      By Celeste Headlee

   5. Unauthorized Bread

      A Radicalized Novella
      By Cory Doctorow

   6. Dear Ijeawele, Or A Feminist Manifesto In Fifteen Suggestions

      By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

   7. The End of Policing

      By Alex S. Vitale

   8. The Will to Change

      Men, Masculinity, and Love
      By bell hooks

   9. If They Come in the Morning

      Voices of Resistance
      By Angela Davis

   10. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

       By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

   11. Gender Trouble

       Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
       By Judith Butler

   12. Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction

       By Richard S. Newman

   13. This Will Be My Undoing

       Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
       By Morgan Jerkins

   14. We Should All Be Feminists

       By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

   15. How We Get Free

       Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
       By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

   16. SQL Performance Explained

       By Markus Winand

   17. Are Prisons Obsolete?

       By Angela Y. Davis

   18. Requiem for the American Dream

       The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
       By Noam Chomsky

   19. Facism: A Very Short Introduction

       By Kevin Passmore

   20. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

       Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
       By Angela Y. Davis

   21. A New Ireland

       How Europe's Most Conservative Country Became Its Most Liberal
       By Niall O'Dowd

3. 2021

   1. A Deadly Dividend

      A gripping murder mystery set in Dublin
      By David Pearson

   2. How to Drink

      A Classical Guide to the Art of Imbibing
      By Vincent Obsopoeus

   3. Populism: A Very Short Introduction

      By Cas Muddle, Cristóbal Rovira

   4. Why Marx Was Right

      By Terry Eagleton

   5. The Communist Manifesto

      By Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx

   6. Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction

      By Manfred B. Steger, Ravi K. Roy

   7. Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction

      By Marc Mulholland

   8. The Man In The High Castle

      By Philip K. Dick

   9. SQL Antipatterns

      By Bill Karwin

   10. Domain Modeling Made Functional

       By Scott Wlaschin

   11. The Speculative Book 2021

       By Stuart Kenny, Phoebe Demeger, Kevin P Gilday, Rachel Morrell, Joe Timms, Beth Cochrane, Sophie McNaughton, Iona Lee, Nicks Walker, Giovanna MacKenna, Mandy Haggith, Amy B. Moreno, Martin Breul, Catherine Wilson, Emily Oulton, Sofia Ballesteros, Bethan Hamblett, Martha Nye, Rachael Llewellyn, Andrés N Ordorica, Fiamma Curti

   12. SQL Antipatterns

       By Bill Karwin

   13. Domain Modeling Made Functional

       By Scott Wlaschin

4. 2020

   1. Compiling to Assembly From Scratch

      By Vladimir Keleshev

   2. Grokking Algorithms

      By Aditya Bhargava

   3. Learning HTTP/2

      By Javier Garza, Stephen Ludin

   4. The Art of PostgreSQL

      By Dimitri Fountaine

   5. The Rust Programming Language

      By Carol Nichols, Steve Klabnik

5. 2019

   1. The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality

      By Morgan Lev Edward Holleb