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Blain Smith
Personal blog · blainsmith.com/articlesprogrammingcareer
Blain Smith's personal blog at blainsmith.com covers programming and career. Since 2013, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Just Fucking Use Go”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Blain Smith's personal site, with posts on getting a tech job without a degree, local AI and distributed systems, and a Go-to-Rust migration article that HN readers discuss.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Just Fucking Use Go3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-08
- The Wheels We Keep Reinventing – Blain Smith2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-31
- Humanities in the Machine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-15
What Hacker News says?
Yes. I actually spoke about that recently http://blainsmith.com/articles/tedxalbany-the-master-of-my-f...
Comment linking /articles/tedxalbany-the-master-of-my-fate
on “Ask HN: Is it possible to get a tech job without a degree?”Submitted Plain Text Protocols as a story · 194 points
HN discussionhttps://blainsmith.com
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Just Fucking Use Go as a story · 53 points
HN discussionI love this line: > Stop shipping distributed systems when you meant to ship a feature. But not in the contex the author meant. Many people don't realize that when you have a frontend, a backend (several instances, for failover/scaling), a (separate) database, maybe some object store -- you have a distributed system. A recent article[0] touched on that, although most HN commenters[1] latched on the "go" part. But th…
Comment linking /articles/just-fucking-use-go/
on “Local AI needs to be the norm”Submitted Show HN: paleorecipes.io: For Geeks, By Geeks as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttps://blainsmith.com
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on “Ask HN: Share Your Personal Site”Submitted Read the Fucking Manual as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe article seems to be just a way to say "Rust is better" - and it fails to do so by spreading misinformation such as the channels part ( https://corrode.dev/learn/migration-guides/go-to-rust/#chann... ) or making a fair comparison of pprof vs Rust's flamegraph. It also skips entirely over debugging (delve vs gdb), IDE support, ecosystem (why the hell does Rust have N async runtimes?!), statically linking and so on…
Comment linking /articles/just-fucking-use-go/
on “Migrating from Go to Rust”Submitted Fuck Your Hustle (2017) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Don't Care About in Software as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Write HTTP Servers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Auto-Generating an OpenAPI Specification for gRPC and gRPC Gateway as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Year 5 School Bachelor's Degree (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easy Profiling Go Benchmark Tests with Bash as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Signing JWTs with Go's crypto/ed25519 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Wheels We Keep Reinventing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Wheels We Keep Reinventing – Blain Smith as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Constraints Breed Discipline as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/HTTP/httptrace as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crocker's Rules as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Humanities in the Machine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Humanities in the Machine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 10th Person as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 30 Years of Programming at 44 Years Old as a story · 1 points
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