The Post Archive
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Welcome to the archive of blog posts. See the full list of posts below. Alternatively, you can browse by category, by tag or posts in a series. You can also search for anything you like. I also added a page that just shows the banner images for every post used for each post because why not?
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2026
- HTTP/2 From Scratch: Part 3 19 min read Mar 4
- Building a Live BGP Map 18 min read Mar 2
- HTTP/2 From Scratch: Part 2 8 min read Feb 25
- IRC Log: The Cloud Scale Incident 2 min read Feb 23
- Visualizing the Internet (2026) 19 min read Feb 18
- Shell Log: Namaste 1 min read Feb 16
- HTTP/2 From Scratch: Part 1 9 min read Feb 11
- IRC Log: Standup 2 min read Feb 9
- HTTP/1.1 From Scratch 17 min read Feb 4
- WHOIS is dead, long live RDAP 20 min read Jan 6
- Months Considered Harmful 8 min read Jan 1
2025
- Encryption vs. Compression 9 min read Dec 22
- On Creating My Own Cover Art 3 min read Dec 15
- Traceroute Tool from Scratch in Go 17 min read Dec 9
- My Favorite Interview Question 5 min read Sep 22
- From JSON to Protobuf 7 min read Sep 2
- Breaking gRPC 6 min read Aug 5
- Morse Code 6 min read Jul 22
- Can You Hack a Phone with Your Voice? 3 min read Jul 15
- Visualizing the Internet (2025) 10 min read Jun 16
- HTTP QUERY and Go 8 min read Jun 4
- I made a daily word game 11 min read May 14
- Protovalidate: Can Input Validation Be This Easy? 11 min read Feb 11
- Behold! The Barcode Scanner 2 min read Jan 27
2024
- Mixing CEL and Protobuf for Fun 8 min read Dec 17
- FauxRPC and Protovalidate 4 min read Nov 12
- The Call of the Monolithic Codebase 11 min read Oct 22
- FauxRPC + Test Containers 5 min read Oct 15
- Self-Documenting Connect Services 6 min read Sep 25
- gRPC Over HTTP/3: Followup 7 min read Sep 17
- JSON to Protobuf Conversion 10 min read Sep 10
- gRPC: The Ugly Parts 13 min read Sep 3
- Working with Protobuf in 2024 9 min read Aug 27
- Introducing FauxRPC 7 min read Aug 20
- HTTP/1.0 From Scratch 14 min read Aug 13
- Y'all are sleeping on HTTP/3 11 min read Aug 6
- HTTP/0.9 From Scratch 9 min read Jul 30
- What version of HTTP are you using? 4 min read Jul 23
- Texans in Denmark 20 min read Jul 16
- gRPC Over HTTP/3 17 min read Jul 9
- gRPC: The Good Parts 11 min read Jul 2
- Leaving Texas for Greener Pastures 8 min read Jun 25
- gRPC: The Bad Parts 7 min read Jun 18
- Unit Testing ConnectRPC Servers 6 min read Jun 11
- Daily Prompts 5 min read Jun 4
- Adding chart.js to Hugo 4 min read May 28
- Why I'm Rebranding 3 min read May 23
- Benchmarking gRPC (golang) 7 min read May 21
- Blog Update 5 min read May 14
- gRPC From Scratch: Part 3 - Protobuf Encoding 11 min read May 7