Giacomo Cavalieri

How I used arenas to make the Gleam formatter faster and less memory hungry

How I used arenas to make the Gleam formatter faster and less memory hungry

Writing and maintaining tests is boring. But they're also some of the most valuable code we can write. With this blog post you'll learn a criminally underrated testing technique to add to your testing toolbox that can make tests a whole lot more pleasant.

Writing and maintaining tests is boring. But they're also some of the most valuable code we can write. With this blog post you'll learn a criminally underrated testing technique to add to your testing toolbox that can make tests a whole lot more pleasant.

Designing an appealing web page is always a bit of a challenge for me. But this time around I actually had a really good time, and really enjoyed dipping my toes into CSS View Transitions. Here's how I managed to add nice animations to my static personal

Designing an appealing web page is always a bit of a challenge for me. But this time around I actually had a really good time, and really enjoyed dipping my toes into CSS View Transitions. Here's how I managed to add nice animations to my static personal

New year, new me, and new personal website! Time to reflect on 2025

As a programmer there's no greater joy than trying to code my way out of little daily annoyances. Lately I've been annoyed by GitHub's UI and I set up to fix this using Gleam and a little Raspberry Pi Zero.

As a programmer there's no greater joy than trying to code my way out of little daily annoyances. Lately I've been annoyed by GitHub's UI and I set up to fix this using Gleam and a little Raspberry Pi Zero.

I'm not great at doing end-of-year introspection; but this has been such a fun year and I wanted to share a bit of what I did on the internet