Blain Smith

@blain_smith@robot.villas

Blain Smith's technical articles and personal essays on software engineering, Go, distributed systems, concurrency, and computing culture.

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The Wheels We Keep Reinventing #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Essays
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Jul 31, 2026
Tracing HTTP Requests with Rust #Rust #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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Jul 2, 2026
Prioritizing Recent Messages with Go Channels #GoLang #SoftwareEngineering #Concurrency
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Jun 25, 2026
RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method #HTTP #WebDev #RFC
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Jun 17, 2026
Tracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/http/httptrace #Go #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps
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May 26, 2026
Constraints Breed Discipline #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Essays
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May 11, 2026
NATS Pub/Sub in Hare #Go #NATS #SoftwareEngineering
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May 10, 2026
Just Fucking Use Go #GoLang #SoftwareEngineering #Programming
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May 8, 2026
Unbounded Concurrency is a Foot Gun #SoftwareEngineering #Concurrency #GoLang
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Apr 16, 2026
Wired for Fairness #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Essays
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Apr 13, 2026
Building Go APIs with Huma, sqlc, and Goose #Go #Programming #APIs
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Apr 7, 2026
Vendoring Modules in Hare #Go #SoftwareEngineering #Programming
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Mar 28, 2026
Crocker's Rules #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Computing
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Mar 23, 2026
Humanities in the Machine #Tech #SoftwareEngineering #Essays
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Mar 13, 2026
10th Person #SoftwareEngineering #GoLang #Tech
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Feb 13, 2026
30 Years of Programming at 44 Years Old #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #Career
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Jan 13, 2026
Read the Fucking Manual #SoftwareEngineering #GoLang #Documentation
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Nov 19, 2025
How I Write HTTP Servers #SoftwareEngineering #GoLang #WebDevelopment
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Oct 31, 2025
I Don't Care #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Essays
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Oct 28, 2025
Excitement is Relative #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Essays
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Sep 30, 2025
AI Coding #SoftwareEngineering #AI #Tech
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Sep 12, 2025
Allergic to Unnecessary Complexity #SoftwareEngineering #GoLang #Complexity
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Aug 18, 2025
Bare Essentials Development Tools #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #DevelopmentTools
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Aug 1, 2025
Software Engineering Discipline and Posture #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Discipline
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Jul 23, 2025
Towards Teaching #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Education
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Jul 10, 2025
Introducting: Hare by Example #SoftwareEngineering #Go #Programming
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Jul 2, 2025
Block Non-Human Crawlers with Go #GoLang #SoftwareEngineering #CyberSecurity
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Apr 23, 2025
Limeleaf Co-op #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Essays
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Jan 17, 2025
"Rot Economy" and Software Bloat is Increasing the Digital Divide #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #OpenSource
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Mar 25, 2024
Done #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Essays
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Mar 19, 2024
static-httpd #SoftwareEngineering #GoLang #Systems
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Mar 1, 2024
Writing Bitcask in Hare #SoftwareEngineering #Go #Systems
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Oct 6, 2023
Auto-Generating an OpenAPI Specification for gRPC and gRPC Gateway #Go #gRPC #OpenAPI
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Jul 29, 2022
Network Programming with Hare #SoftwareEngineering #GoLang #Networking
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May 10, 2022
40 #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Essays
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Jan 13, 2022
Software I'm Thankful For #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Essays
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Nov 29, 2021
How I Write HTTP Clients #SoftwareEngineering #GoLang #HTTP
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Nov 9, 2021
Why Do You Lift? #Fitness #Health #Motivation
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Aug 25, 2021
Programming is Easy, Software Engineering is Hard #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #Tech
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Jun 15, 2021
Hugo to Zola #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #WebDevelopment
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Mar 6, 2021