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The industry has a maddening relationship with solved problems. A thing gets figured out, packaged, documented, and shipped, and a decade later half the field is building it again from scratch. The old solution was rarely wrong. Somewhere along the way th

Recently, I wrote about using Go's net/http/httptrace to get the per-phase timing breakdown for HTTP requests - DNS, TCP, TLS, and server processing. After writing about that package, I wanted to know what the same breakdown costs in Rust: whether the eco

I was writing a controller that watches Kubernetes HPAs and Istio VirtualServices for changes and coordinates between the two. Both watchers feed updates into the same reconciliation loop, and the loop needs to act on whatever the current state is, not re

RFC 10008 was published on June 15, 2026 and defines a new HTTP method: QUERY . It fills a gap that has existed for as long as I have been building APIs. You have data to send to the server in order to describe what you want back, but GET does not have a

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Walk into any old stone church and look up. The arches, buttresses, and ribbed vaults that hold the roof against gravity for a thousand years were not chosen for their beauty. They were chosen because stone is heavy and weak in tension, and the people who

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I have been writing more and more Hare over the past year and finding places where the ecosystem still has gaps worth filling. One of those gaps is messaging. NATS is my go-to for lightweight pub/sub and I have used it in production across a handful of pr

Hey, dipshit. You know what compiles in two seconds, deploys as a single binary, and doesn't shit itself when a transitive dependency gets yanked from npm at 3am? Go. The same way HTML has been sitting there since the dawn of the goddamn internet waiting

Building Go APIs with Huma, sqlc, and Goose