Blain Smith

My entire political worldview is: what if you could maintain the optimism and energy of America but add an inclusive culture of support that gives everyone education, healthcare, a real safety net and a springboard for their lives, in a way that builds communities rather than extracts from them?

My entire information diet relies on your site having a functional RSS feed, so it would be awesome if it did.

Tracing HTTP Requests with Rust blainsmith.com/articles/tra... #RustLang #HTTP #Tracing #Telemetry #Monitoring #Performance

Uptime monitoring tools have too many features, confusing pricing, and aren't built for small teams or indies. So we built probes.dev. Add a URL, we ping it, and we tell you when it's acting flaky or goes down. $5 a month gets you 5 probes w/ status pages. Start probing today! #HTTP #Monitoring

The Joy and Power of Understanding binaryigor.com/the-joy-and-... #Fundamentals #Learning #Computing #ComputerScience

A Wake-Up Call for Kernel-Bypass on Modern Hardware dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.... #Linux #KernelBypass #Networking

"My product is my garden" I absolutely love this concept: herman.bearblog.dev/my-product-i...

Hahahahaha the Steam Machine is over a grand? Hard pass.

Someone started paying for probes.dev Cool to have that first paying user! #HTTP #Monitoring #GoLang #Bootstrapped

Happy Father's Day to all you Dad's out there.

It looks slick, great work!

Show day #Lexus #IS500 #FlareYellow

Uptime monitoring tools have too many features, confusing pricing, and aren't built for small teams or indies. So we built probes.dev. Add a URL, we ping it, and we tell you when it's acting flaky or goes down. $5 a month gets you 5 probes w/ status pages. Start probing today!

Figured out how to get the goal scorers for the games. Still keeping things simple for now, but does the job. worldcupnext.com

Thoughts on RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method blainsmith.com/articles/rfc... #GoLang #RustLang #Caching #HTTP

Why stdx is not on crates.io kerkour.com/stdx-cratesio #RustLang #PackageManagement

I can't believe it has been just over 4 years... github.com/subspace-com... #GoLang #AF_PACKET #Linux #Networking

*Blain has left #Engineering* I can't keep putting effort in there anymore. No one cares about anything unless is LLM related.

RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/ #RFC #HTTP

The $100 32GB Crucial RAM stick I bought a while ago is now $500. To all LLM sympathizers... Fuck you for continually supporting this tech. Feel free to unfollow and block me. You won't be missed.

Now we have a much needed Docs page to explain things more. probes.dev/docs/ #GoLang #HTTP #Monitoring #Documentation #BuildInPublic

Can't stop the signal. Poison it. blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/fauxx-cant-stop-the-signal #DataPoisoning #Tracking #Privacy

Some early feedback about probes.dev was folks wanted to also see a traditional timeseries of latency over time, so here we go... #GoLang #HTTP #Monitoring #BuildInPublic

Both kids have graduated to better phones now. They each have a used Pixel 6 with /e/OS with privacy controls enabled. They are learning to treat their phones as a tool, not as an extension of their own person. I'll write a blog post on this topic since I have been researching this for a while.

I've been working on this stupid little #golang hobby project for literal years, but today I am finally ready to publicly release it. Here is Glazier, your over-engineered declarative tmux session manager. github.com/wilhelm-murd...

Another solid PR this week! Squatted 450lbs for 5 reps. #Powerlifting #Strongman

Snuck in a quick, but important probes.dev feature and added the User-Agent header to be a good web citizen. `User-Agent: probes (+https://probes.dev)` #HTTP #UserAgent #Monitoring

Nice. New bench and shoulder press PRs... 240lbs for 8 reps on bench 135lbs for 5 sets of 10 on shoulder press #gainzZz

Reuse Less Software wiki.alopex.li/ReuseLessSof... #SupplyChain #Dependencies #Programming

Just looks so good and its quite informative! probes.dev coming soon! #DNS #TCP #HTTP #GoLang

The hardest part of building probes.dev for me was the UI. The actual core product of the network probes was the easiest part and I had that done as a proof of concept in an afternoon. #GoLang #HTTP #Monitoring #Telemetry #Networking

Another set of changes went out for probes.dev 1. "Past Hour" option to view your charts for the...wait for it...past hour ;-) 2. Geography map got a speed boost to render instantly 3. Alert flapping detection so a site triggering many down/up alerts will not spam you #GoLang #HTTP #BuildInPublic

We announced probes.dev to a wider close/trusted audience for more private beta testing. We're aiming for public beta next week! #GoLang #HTTP #Monitoring #BuildInPublic

Speed of packets' differences in one graph. Yellow: NYC probe talking to app also in NYC Blue/Green: SFO and AMS probes talking to app in NYC #Latency #Geography #Networking

The Small Web is Beautiful: A Study of Web Development as if People Mattered. Ben Hoyt wrote this in 2021 and I can't get it out of my mind these days. It's a take on E. F. Schumacher’s "Small is Beautiful" economics treatise benhoyt.com/writings/the...

I had a probe set up with a 500ms response time for Apdex calculations, but the public status page kept showing "Degraded"... Turns out the site responds, on average, between 600-700ms so it was in fact correct. I was chasing a bug that didn't exist. Worked as designed. 🙂 #HTTP #Apdex #Monitoring

We're getting some good live data from probes.dev already. It's very useful to tweak the UI and graphs so they make the most sense when we finally go public. #GoLang #HTTP #Monitoring #BuildInPublic #BetaTesting

I finally got around to buying a copy of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values" by Robert M. Pirsig I've listed to the audiobook version many times, but thought it was time to own a physical hardcover version. #Books

The Cypherpunk Library www.cypherpunkbooks.com

#VoxMachina is just so great and fun to watch.

Tweaked SQLite's page_size and cache_size and I found the sweet spot for keeping latency on the low end. #SQLite

#OTel is cool and all, but vanilla #Prometheus and #Grafana works very well without all the plumbing and boilerplate.

Free IPv4 Lookup — Owner, ASN, Geo, PTR worldip.io #IPv4