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Blain Smith

Go Software / engineering practice Rust Web development

’15 ’20 ’25

Posts: 54 from 13 Jul 2012 to 31 Jul 2026
Posting: monthly (17 in the last year)
Kind: personal blog
Feed: https://blainsmith.com/atom.xml

2026 16

31 JulThe Wheels We Keep Reinventing
2 JulTracing HTTP Requests with Rust
25 JunPrioritizing Recent Messages with Go Channels
17 JunRFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method
26 MayTracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/http/httptrace
11 MayConstraints Breed Discipline
10 MayNATS Pub/Sub in Hare
8 MayJust Fucking Use Go
16 AprUnbounded Concurrency is a Foot Gun
13 AprWired for Fairness
7 AprBuilding Go APIs with Huma, sqlc, and Goose
28 MarVendoring Modules in Hare
23 MarCrocker's Rules
13 MarHumanities in the Machine
13 Feb10th Person
13 Jan30 Years of Programming at 44 Years Old

2025 12

19 NovRead the Fucking Manual
31 OctHow I Write HTTP Servers
28 OctI Don't Care
30 SepExcitement is Relative
12 SepAI Coding
18 AugAllergic to Unnecessary Complexity
1 AugBare Essentials Development Tools
23 JulSoftware Engineering Discipline and Posture
10 JulTowards Teaching
2 JulIntroducting: Hare by Example
23 AprBlock Non-Human Crawlers with Go
17 JanLimeleaf Co-op

2024 3

25 Mar"Rot Economy" and Software Bloat is Increasing the Digital Divide
19 MarDone
1 Marstatic-httpd

2023 1

6 OctWriting Bitcask in Hare

2022 3

29 JulAuto-Generating an OpenAPI Specification for gRPC and gRPC Gateway
10 MayNetwork Programming with Hare
13 JanArticles

2021 6

29 NovSoftware I'm Thankful For
9 NovHow I Write HTTP Clients
25 AugWhy Do You Lift?
15 JunProgramming is Easy, Software Engineering is Hard
6 MarHugo to Zola
18 FebEasy Profiling Go Benchmark Tests with Bash

2020 3

1 SepPlain Text Protocols
23 JunReverting Back to a Simpler Time
10 MayThe 20 Year 5 School Bachelor's Degree

2019 1

7 DecSigning JWTs with Go's crypto/ed25519

2018 1

3 AugLinux System Metrics with collectd

2017 3

2015 2

7 Oct3 Years at MadGlory
27 FebSide Projects

2014 1

12 MarSingle Command Static File Web Server

2012 2