Michael Bromley
@michlbrmly.dev
Creator of vendure.io. CTO at Elevantiq. Open source and stuff.
Got this feedback on our Discord this morning. Totally validates our thesis behind completely rebuilding our dashboard.
October 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Got this feedback on our Discord this morning. Totally validates our thesis behind completely rebuilding our dashboard.
I'll be speaking there! You should come too!
🚨 Imagine this: 10 minutes on stage at #HalfStack! What’s your talk? 🎤
We want to hear your ideas! Drop them below ⬇️
Don’t miss your chance to join us! Register now 👉 halfstackconf.com/Vienna
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Don’t miss your chance to join us! Register now 👉 halfstackconf.com/Vienna
halfstackconf.com
August 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I'll be speaking there! You should come too!
Every time I come back to Manchester it looks better
August 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Every time I come back to Manchester it looks better
If you delete the issue template I will find you
August 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
If you delete the issue template I will find you
Just got the last part of my mini pedal board. It's literally everything I need: octaver, Rat-style distortion, delay/reverb, looper/drum machine.
With this combination I can do all music.
With this combination I can do all music.
July 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Just got the last part of my mini pedal board. It's literally everything I need: octaver, Rat-style distortion, delay/reverb, looper/drum machine.
With this combination I can do all music.
With this combination I can do all music.
Last night at @viennajs.bsky.social: give a talk about dotfiles and key bindings and you are guaranteed to be swarmed by devs for the rest of the night 😂
Great talk by our new @vendure.io team member Housein 👏
Great talk by our new @vendure.io team member Housein 👏
July 31, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Last night at @viennajs.bsky.social: give a talk about dotfiles and key bindings and you are guaranteed to be swarmed by devs for the rest of the night 😂
Great talk by our new @vendure.io team member Housein 👏
Great talk by our new @vendure.io team member Housein 👏
I think back to the hours of my life spent painfully trying to figure out how to make JavaScript work.
Copy-pasting from random forum posts. This was even before Stack Overflow (RIP). Yes I'm that old.
And I compare it to the velocity I now have using AI tooling.
Copy-pasting from random forum posts. This was even before Stack Overflow (RIP). Yes I'm that old.
And I compare it to the velocity I now have using AI tooling.
July 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I think back to the hours of my life spent painfully trying to figure out how to make JavaScript work.
Copy-pasting from random forum posts. This was even before Stack Overflow (RIP). Yes I'm that old.
And I compare it to the velocity I now have using AI tooling.
Copy-pasting from random forum posts. This was even before Stack Overflow (RIP). Yes I'm that old.
And I compare it to the velocity I now have using AI tooling.
6,666 commits over 7 years of building @vendure.io
that's an average of 3-4 commits *every* work day for the past 7 years.
Consistency. Just show up and get the work done.
that's an average of 3-4 commits *every* work day for the past 7 years.
Consistency. Just show up and get the work done.
July 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
6,666 commits over 7 years of building @vendure.io
that's an average of 3-4 commits *every* work day for the past 7 years.
Consistency. Just show up and get the work done.
that's an average of 3-4 commits *every* work day for the past 7 years.
Consistency. Just show up and get the work done.
Sometimes I hear that it was a mistake to build
@vendure.io on top of GraphQL.
"Too complex", "Can't be cached", "Poor performance", "It was all hype"
Yes, every technology has its tradeoffs. I'm keenly aware. There *are* some aspects you need to be mindful of when working with GraphQL.
@vendure.io on top of GraphQL.
"Too complex", "Can't be cached", "Poor performance", "It was all hype"
Yes, every technology has its tradeoffs. I'm keenly aware. There *are* some aspects you need to be mindful of when working with GraphQL.
July 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Sometimes I hear that it was a mistake to build
@vendure.io on top of GraphQL.
"Too complex", "Can't be cached", "Poor performance", "It was all hype"
Yes, every technology has its tradeoffs. I'm keenly aware. There *are* some aspects you need to be mindful of when working with GraphQL.
@vendure.io on top of GraphQL.
"Too complex", "Can't be cached", "Poor performance", "It was all hype"
Yes, every technology has its tradeoffs. I'm keenly aware. There *are* some aspects you need to be mindful of when working with GraphQL.
> @vite.dev is my new favourite thing. If you're a @vendure.io developer it's gonna become your new favourite thing too, very soon!
I was vaguely aware that it was slowly taking over the frontend world - every framework seemed to use it for some reason.
I was vaguely aware that it was slowly taking over the frontend world - every framework seemed to use it for some reason.
July 18, 2025 at 7:11 AM
> @vite.dev is my new favourite thing. If you're a @vendure.io developer it's gonna become your new favourite thing too, very soon!
I was vaguely aware that it was slowly taking over the frontend world - every framework seemed to use it for some reason.
I was vaguely aware that it was slowly taking over the frontend world - every framework seemed to use it for some reason.
Reposted by Michael Bromley
There's one lesson that has taken me years to *really* learn in software development:
Simplicity should be prized above all other things.
Simple code. Simple logic. Simple dependencies. Simple deployments.
Simplicity should be prized above all other things.
Simple code. Simple logic. Simple dependencies. Simple deployments.
July 16, 2025 at 5:43 AM
There's one lesson that has taken me years to *really* learn in software development:
Simplicity should be prized above all other things.
Simple code. Simple logic. Simple dependencies. Simple deployments.
Simplicity should be prized above all other things.
Simple code. Simple logic. Simple dependencies. Simple deployments.
July 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Reposted by Michael Bromley
“This is how big the pile of money is I got from my dad to work on open source” 😂
June 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“This is how big the pile of money is I got from my dad to work on open source” 😂
Reposted by Michael Bromley
𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞.
@michlbrmly.dev reminded us at HalfStack Vienna that “it depends” is a valid answer ✌️
Watch his talk: youtu.be/WBpzS36-eIc
Submit your CfP for Vienna 2025! 🔗 halfstackconf.com/vienna
#TechWithoutTribalism #HalfStackEvents
@michlbrmly.dev reminded us at HalfStack Vienna that “it depends” is a valid answer ✌️
Watch his talk: youtu.be/WBpzS36-eIc
Submit your CfP for Vienna 2025! 🔗 halfstackconf.com/vienna
#TechWithoutTribalism #HalfStackEvents
You Aren't Gonna Need It...Until You Are?
YouTube video by HalfStack Events
youtu.be
June 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞.
@michlbrmly.dev reminded us at HalfStack Vienna that “it depends” is a valid answer ✌️
Watch his talk: youtu.be/WBpzS36-eIc
Submit your CfP for Vienna 2025! 🔗 halfstackconf.com/vienna
#TechWithoutTribalism #HalfStackEvents
@michlbrmly.dev reminded us at HalfStack Vienna that “it depends” is a valid answer ✌️
Watch his talk: youtu.be/WBpzS36-eIc
Submit your CfP for Vienna 2025! 🔗 halfstackconf.com/vienna
#TechWithoutTribalism #HalfStackEvents
New weekly record for npm downloads this week for @vendure.io
June 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
New weekly record for npm downloads this week for @vendure.io
This is what it looks like when an abandoned open source project comes back to life
June 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This is what it looks like when an abandoned open source project comes back to life
Extremely annoying LLM behaviour
June 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Extremely annoying LLM behaviour
I'm excited to speak at the upcoming @viennajs.bsky.social meetup alongside @tkdodo.eu
I'll be talking about life as a full-time OSS maintainer.
Anything you wanna know about?
viennajs.org/en/meetup/vi...
I'll be talking about life as a full-time OSS maintainer.
Anything you wanna know about?
viennajs.org/en/meetup/vi...
ViennaJS June 2025
Everybody is welcome & feel free to share this invitation!
viennajs.org
June 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I'm excited to speak at the upcoming @viennajs.bsky.social meetup alongside @tkdodo.eu
I'll be talking about life as a full-time OSS maintainer.
Anything you wanna know about?
viennajs.org/en/meetup/vi...
I'll be talking about life as a full-time OSS maintainer.
Anything you wanna know about?
viennajs.org/en/meetup/vi...
First back flip landed at age 41. How much harder is it to land one on flat ground?
June 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
First back flip landed at age 41. How much harder is it to land one on flat ground?
Achievement unlocked: I actually started a conversation with a stranger in Mandarin while waiting with my kids at a doctors office.
It was very, very basic but we managed to make it work 😂
It was very, very basic but we managed to make it work 😂
May 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Achievement unlocked: I actually started a conversation with a stranger in Mandarin while waiting with my kids at a doctors office.
It was very, very basic but we managed to make it work 😂
It was very, very basic but we managed to make it work 😂
9yo made a working sniper rifle from Lego
May 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
9yo made a working sniper rifle from Lego
Just sat next to some teenage girls who were chatting in German and referring to each other as "bro". Is that a thing now?
April 28, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Just sat next to some teenage girls who were chatting in German and referring to each other as "bro". Is that a thing now?