Iain Schmitt

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I'm a Senior Software Engineer at SmartThings based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. My public facing repositories are on GitHub, including the one for this website. An RSS feed for my posts is available here. My resume is available here, and you can get in contact with me via email by reversing 'olleh' and adding '@iainschmitt.com' to the end of it.

Posts

• 2026.09.06: A Wasted Weekend on Kafka
• 2026.08.18: Terry Rozier and the Teleprompt Operator
• 2026.07.29: July 2026 Earnings for AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon
• 2026.07.13: Non-performant software and its incentives
• 2026.06.16: Manifest 2026 Recap
• 2026.06.01: Photography
• 2026.05.16: The Great Token Wager
• 2026.05.13: RSS Scraper Development Notes
• 2026.04.12: A few thoughts from JavaOne 2026
• 2026.02.27: February 2026 Puro Notes
• 2026.01.31: Review of The Shenzhen Experiment
• 2025.12.19: Vibe code at your peril
• 2025.11.30: On Automation
• 2025.10.19: My Rough and Incomplete Backend Developer Skill Tree
• 2025.09.29: Uncomfortably Functional Kotlin
• 2025.09.18: T-Mobile's Fiber Ambitions
• 2025.08.24: August Event Stream Notes
• 2025.07.12: Kafka in One File
• 2025.06.19: The English Civil Wars and the Republic That Failed
• 2025.05.22: The next big asset class?
• 2025.04.26: Software firms and subjective judgment
• 2025.04.12: Prism Proxy Bug
• 2025.03.17: First Thoughts on The Little Book of Semaphores and Rust
• 2025.03.02: This blog's new syntax highlighting
• 2025.01.23: LLM Chat Interfaces Will Change
• 2025.01.05: The Strangest Carrier: Southern Linc
• 2024.12.26: Understanding monads?
• 2024.12.18: My needlessly complicated ZooKeeper-enabled reverse proxy
• 2024.11.29: Reinventing the wheel to go back in time
• 2024.11.10: Mobile Network Operators and Capex Tradeoffs
• 2024.11.08: November Grab Bag
• 2024.10.27: October 2024 GDPLE Development
• 2024.09.08: Review of Domain Modeling Made Functional