Thank you to the 193 individual contributors from over 44 countries that helped us build @vendure.io in 2025! Let's collaborate again in 2026 💪 2025-wrapped.vendure.io
Michael Bromley
@michlbrmly.dev
Creator of vendure.io. Open source and stuff.
Age 42, getting my kickflips back after 20 years Just repeat and repeat.
Landed 2 solid tre flips today, first time in like 20 years. Only got the fails on camera though 😭
Checking out TanStack Start. Yeah sorry about the horrific thumbnail that's what happens when I give the guy total creative freedom 🤣 youtu.be/X_NnM72RN90?...
We are all excited about this framework
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Got this feedback on our Discord this morning. Totally validates our thesis behind completely rebuilding our dashboard.
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.
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 👏
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.
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.
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.
> @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.
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.
I love building stuff for developers. Here's what's coming in the new @vendure.io dashboard:
“This is how big the pile of money is I got from my dad to work on open source” 😂
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
You Aren't Gonna Need It...Until You Are?
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This is what it looks like when an abandoned open source project comes back to life
Just released! TypeORM v0.3.25 ✨ github.com/typeorm/type...
Release 0.3.25 · typeorm/typeorm
What's Changed docs: use correct SQL statements in softDelete/restore comments by @sgarner in #11489 fix: resolve alias or table name in upsert and orUpdate for PostgreSQL driver conditionally by ...
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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...
ViennaJS June 2025
Everybody is welcome & feel free to share this invitation!
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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 😂
Just sat next to some teenage girls who were chatting in German and referring to each other as "bro". Is that a thing now?
