Blain Smith

Blain Smith

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A personal blog mostly about tech and some of the frustrations with it, but there is some technical goodies.

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• Humanities in the Machine 2026-03-12 05:00pm
• 10th Person 2026-02-12 04:00pm
• 30 Years of Programming at 44 Years Old 2026-01-12 04:00pm
• Read the Fucking Manual 2025-11-18 04:00pm
• How I Write HTTP Servers 2025-10-30 05:00pm
• I Don't Care 2025-10-27 05:00pm
• October 2025 Week 43 2025-10-19 05:00pm
• October 2025 Week 42 2025-10-17 05:00pm
• Excitement is Relative 2025-09-29 05:00pm
• AI Coding 2025-09-11 05:00pm
• Allergic to Unnecessary Complexity 2025-08-17 05:00pm
• Bare Essentials Development Tools 2025-07-31 05:00pm
• Software Engineering Discipline and Posture 2025-07-22 05:00pm
• Towards Teaching 2025-07-09 05:00pm
• Introducting: Hare by Example 2025-07-01 05:00pm
• Block Non-Human Crawlers with Go 2025-04-22 05:00pm
• Limeleaf Co-op 2025-01-16 04:00pm
• "Rot Economy" and Software Bloat is Increasing the Digital Divide 2024-03-24 05:00pm
• Done 2024-03-18 05:00pm
• static-httpd 2024-02-29 04:00pm
• Writing Bitcask in Hare 2023-10-05 05:00pm
• Auto-Generating an OpenAPI Specification for gRPC and gRPC Gateway 2022-07-28 05:00pm
• Network Programming with Hare 2022-05-09 05:00pm
• 40 2022-01-12 04:00pm
• Software I'm Thankful For 2021-11-28 04:00pm
• How I Write HTTP Clients 2021-11-08 04:00pm
• Why Do You Lift? 2021-08-24 05:00pm
• Programming is Easy, Software Engineering is Hard 2021-06-14 05:00pm
• Hugo to Zola 2021-03-05 04:00pm
• Easy Profiling Go Benchmark Tests with Bash 2021-02-17 04:00pm
• Plain Text Protocols 2020-08-31 05:00pm
• Reverting Back to a Simpler Time 2020-06-22 05:00pm
• The 20 Year 5 School Bachelor's Degree 2020-05-09 05:00pm
• seahash 2019-12-31 04:00pm
• goreds 2019-12-31 04:00pm
• shardcache 2019-12-31 04:00pm
• baconian-cipher 2019-12-31 04:00pm
• Signing JWTs with Go's crypto/ed25519 2019-12-06 04:00pm
• Linux System Metrics with collectd 2018-08-02 05:00pm
• Go Made Me Return to College 2017-09-11 05:00pm
• Fuck Your Hustle 2017-02-05 04:00pm
• Go, Go import "container/list"! 2017-01-31 04:00pm
• 3 Years at MadGlory 2015-10-06 05:00pm
• Side Projects 2015-02-26 04:00pm
• Single Command Static File Web Server 2014-03-11 05:00pm
• Farewell to Harvard and Onward to MadGlory 2012-10-14 05:00pm
• Convention Over Configuration Web Servers 2012-07-12 05:00pm