Hi, I'm Blake Williams

I’m a Principal Engineer at GitHub based in Boston building Ruby, Go, and React apps at scale. I care deeply about simplicity, multiplying the impact of others, and building the right thing.

Cutting our Blueteeth on React Native

July 17th, 2017

Generating Arbitrary Text with Markov Chains in Rust

February 4th, 2017

A friend and I wanted to work on a quick project together and we came up with the idea of making a chatbot. What would make this chatbot special is that it would use the input of another one of our friends so it would post messages that are generated from past messages he’s sent.

Announcing Constable, an open source Phoenix application

October 4th, 2016

How We Replaced React with Phoenix

July 12th, 2016

Testing Your Style With ESLint and Mocha

May 4th, 2016