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Founding Member @limeleaf.coop building @apply.coop and @blueskydirectory.com | Signal: rblgk.13 Software Engineer, Go, Rust, C, Hare, Linux, Networking, Distributed Systems, Databases Decentralize and self host. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9620

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Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · May 19

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Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 23h

How I Write HTTP Servers

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#GoLang #HTTP #API #REST #HappyHalloween

How I Write HTTP Servers - Blain Smith

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Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 2d

On a call today with a group of folks shooting the shit before the meeting started...

Producer: "I just turned 22 a few months ago."
*a moment of silence*
Me: "In a few months I'll be 22 years older than you."

Things I didn't expect to ever say in a meeting. I feel old.

Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 2d

The Green Tea Garbage Collector

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#GoLang #GarbageCollection #MemoryManagement

The Green Tea Garbage Collector - The Go Programming Language

Go 1.25 includes a new experimental garbage collector, Green Tea.

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Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 3d

Much thanks. We've been trying to zero in on what matter most on the homepage especially since we've been around too long to list everything we can do so this was the result. Not like we get much organic traffic to it, but at least it gives a gist to folks who get referred to us.

Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 3d

I Don't Care

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#AI #ProgrammingLanguages #ProjectManagement #BigTech #SaaS

I Don't Care - Blain Smith

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Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 4d

New co-op website for us at @limeleaf.coop

limeleaf.coop

Limeleaf Worker Collective

We are a worker-owned cooperative that helps teams build fast, reliable, scalable, maintainable software systems. Whether you're seeking help with planning, optimizing, completing, or building your so...

limeleaf.coop

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Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 6d

The Great SaaS-Lighting: How IT Users Got Gaslit

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#SaaS

The Great SaaS-Lighting: How IT Users Got Gaslit – Unworkable Ideas

unworkableideas.com

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 8d

As professional maintainers we can invest in making our projects safer and more reliable. To that end, here's a draft of the Geomys Standard of Care.

It covers general maintenance, stability & reliability, dependency management, account and CI security, vulnerability handling, licensing, and more.

The Geomys Standard of Care

Introducing the set of standards that Geomys maintainers strive to uphold in our professional activity as open source maintainers.

words.filippo.io

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Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 8d

Resurrecting an old post about how I write HTTP clients in Go since I am doing this again for the 89432894023 time.

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#GoLang #HTTP

How I Write HTTP Clients - Blain Smith

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Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 10d

Filtering data in real time

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#StreamProcessing #BigData #RealTime #CERN

Filtering data in real time

lhcb-outreach.web.cern.ch

Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 11d

Making an effort to track my training more often outside of spreadsheets. blainsmith.com/training/

I will eventually convert this over to using fitlanguage.org, but it is good enough for now.

#Training #WorkingOut #Powerlifting #FitLang

Training - Blain Smith

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Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 11d

Did anyone learn a lesson from AWS us-east-1 being down for as long as it was?

No?

I didn't think so. Carry on.

Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 11d

It's not, but it will keep happening because no one will learn or are willing to challenge the status quo. Fortunately, folks can begin to try and not rely on those services since things that went out don't actually matter to living a fulfilling life. (Fornite, Snapchat, mobile coffee ordering)

Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 12d

Submitted to be a verified account and provided a signed GPG message with a link to my public key. This should guarantee it.

Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 12d

I missed it too. I guess this means we we're living right to not be dependent on AWS for infra and apps we use?

Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 12d

I should get this printed as a poster!

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#Ethernet #IP #TCP #UDP #Linux #Networking

Entire Linux Network stack diagram

Diagram of entire Linux Network Stack, including: Virtualization and Linux containers: Emulation and Paravirtualization. Network sockets. Network stack: Upper layer of Network stack (TCP, UDP). Low la...

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Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 14d

vibe-coded.lol

Every Fucking AI-Coded Website Ever

The exact same AI-coded page everyone else makes.

vibe-coded.lol

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Teabree Shark @nurse.fish · 15d

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Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 14d

The 2 outcomes I see for my career with AI:

1. It all collapses and I cash in cleaning up the mess at triple my hourly rate
2. It takes over my job and I retire from tech completely and go do something else

Either way, I win.

Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 15d

🎉♥️ Happy Birthday to my now 12 year old today! ♥️🎉

Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 15d

Every time someone @-mentions a large group of folks in channels I imagine that person walking into the room where everyone is focused working and SCREAMING the message they want to say. It makes me want to throw my keyboard at them.

Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 16d

Yes, we, as an industry need to start to normalize charging / accepting donations for usage of the thing we create if we ever want to fix the mistakes of the past. Tech won't fix it completely. It takes a new social contract that apps and services are built by humans that need to earn a living.

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Steven Vandevelde @tokono.ma · 16d

📣 Looking for some part-time work if anyone needs help with anything web, distributed tech, cryptography, etc.

Currently doing some protocol work for totemgrid.io, but while we wait for funding, I could really use some money.

AT Work profile: atwork.place/u/tokono.ma
Website: tokono.ma

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Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 17d

That does sound like it would make sense, but perhaps there is some sort of bell curve here where the longer you spend in tech and the more capable you are of making those nuanced customization the more you don't care to and just want to simplify life.

Helix works out of box and I tweak 1% of it.

Blain Smith @blainsmith.com · 17d

What's next? Retirement.

Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 17d

i think the 2005-2015 era open source boom was built on a nice job environment where people had a little free time and employers believed in creativity

the free time dried up, everyone burned out, 2015-2025 open source has been explicitly targeted toward getting funding & making money. what's next?