Blain Smith
Blain Smith
Blain Smith
A personal blog mostly about tech and some of the frustrations with it, but there is some technical goodies.
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The crypto/ed25519 package was added to the standard library in Go 1.13. This package implements the Ed25519 Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm. It offers significant speed and security improvements over RSA and it makes for a...
This tutorial assumes you have the following software installed. https://collectd.org https://www.docker.com collectd is a general purpose system metrics collection tool that supports various plugins for reading metrics from sources and...
A long time ago I gave a TEDx talk about how I ended up where I am and the choices I made. Most notably, the choices I made to transfer to many different colleges and eventually drop out. As I got more comfortable in my developer career...
This word is used throughout the startup and tech worlds and it annoys the shit out of me. Not only does it seem to stroke the egos using it, but it is also being used in completely the wrong context. Both of these definitions indicate...
On a few different occasions I've needed to keep a registry of interface implementations to iterate over later on. The first time I did it was to have define an EventWriter interface. // writers/writers.go package writers type Event...
This may have been the first job that when I look back over the years I am absolutely shocked with how much I have been exposed to and learned. I couldn't be more grateful towards everyone I work with. After all, MadGlory would be...
I've been hearing a lot of chatter about side projects lately. First was from fellow Glory Lord, Mubs, when he gave a talk at Sharatoga TechTalks in February 2015. He is basically the king of side projects north of Albany, NY as far as I...
I have been building a lot of Javascript apps lately. I started to prototype one recently, but I did not want to set up an Apache host or a connect server to run it. I found a little gem of a command that was already installed on OSX....
Well believe it or not after 7 memorable years working in the Harvard School of Public Health Information Technology Department I have decided to leave. I will be taking up my new post at MadGlory Interactive as Chief Architect. MadGlory...
I am seeing more and more bootstrap projects for HTML, CSS, PHP, and the like. This is great because it really removes a lot of the configuration time when starting a new project so you can get down to business. Even frameworks for Ruby...