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Blain Smith

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Go, Rust, Hare, Networking, Linux | Powerlifting and Strongman
Decentralize and self host as much as you can.
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Every single Flexible Spending Account I've had during my career has never allowed me to buy gym equipment, but they do allow me to buy a fitness tracker or smart scale.

It certainly isn't about supporting healthy living habits.

I suppose I'll spend it all on multivitamins.

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Microsoft software is bad enough as it is. Now imagine what will happen to it when potentially 60,000 people leave the company. Most larger enterprise customers will be generally okay, but all of those small to medium sized non-profits, charities, etc that use Microsoft products because they don't have a proper IT department and don't know any better will start to feel the pain of even worse software.

Now, more than ever, these smaller places need open source and Linux/BSD alternatives.

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Twelve years of distributed SQLite

https://philipotoole.com/twelve-years-of-distributed-sqlite/

#SQLite #DistributedSystems #Databases

philipotoole.comTwelve years of distributed SQLite – Philip O'TooleIn September 2014 I published a short post announcing rqlite. The idea was simple: take SQLite, put a Raft log in front of it, and replicate every write to a cluster so that the loss of a node did not mean the loss of the data. The source went on GitHub that same weekend. As…
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The icing on the cake on a day like today...

"We are investigating delays affecting pull request updates and webhook deliveries. Increased load on our event streaming platform is contributing to hotspots. We are shifting traffic away from affected areas and adding processing capacity; impact is ongoing while these mitigations take effect.
Oct 21, 2026 - 15:36 UTC" - DerpHub

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`hare-sql` and `hare-sqlite` are in good shape. They are not perfect, but I am pretty happy with it so far.

- https://git.sr.ht/~blainsmith/hare-sql
- https://git.sr.ht/~blainsmith/hare-sqlite

It has been fun defining a generic SQL interface and implementing SQLite for it. I need to tidy up some more things and clean up my Awk script that generates the C bindings, but it basically works.

I might try to do DuckDB next so I don't have to worry about networked SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) yet.

#HareLang #SQL #SQLite

git.sr.ht~blainsmith/hare-sql - Generic interface around SQL databases - sourcehut git
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