Glen Baker (@iepathos)

Refined Types in Rust: Parse, Don't Validate

Why wrapping validated data in dedicated types eliminates entire categories of bugs

8 min readentropicdrift.hashnode.dev

Dec 28, 2025

Stillwater 1.0: Pragmatic Effect Composition and Validation for Rust

Announcing stillwater 1.0 - a Rust library for the pure core, imperative shell pattern

9 min readentropicdrift.hashnode.dev

Dec 24, 2025

Compile-Time Resource Tracking in Rust: From Runtime Brackets to Type-Level Safety

How stillwater evolved from runtime brackets for guaranteed cleanup to compile-time resource tracking

7 min readentropicdrift.hashnode.dev

Dec 20, 2025

Refactoring a God Object Detector That Was Itself a God Object

How I used Stillwater's Pure Core/Imperative Shell architecture to refactor debtmap's god object detector

15 min readentropicdrift.hashnode.dev

Dec 9, 2025

Stillwater Validation for Rustaceans: Accumulating Errors Instead of Failing Fast

How Rust's Result type handles form validation and what Stillwater's Validation type does differently

9 min readentropicdrift.hashnode.dev

Dec 4, 2025

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Refined Types in Rust: Parse, Don't Validate

Stillwater 1.0: Pragmatic Effect Composition and Validation for Rust

Compile-Time Resource Tracking in Rust: From Runtime Brackets to Type-Level Safety

Refactoring a God Object Detector That Was Itself a God Object

Stillwater Validation for Rustaceans: Accumulating Errors Instead of Failing Fast

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Glen Baker's blogs

Refined Types in Rust: Parse, Don't Validate

Stillwater 1.0: Pragmatic Effect Composition and Validation for Rust

Compile-Time Resource Tracking in Rust: From Runtime Brackets to Type-Level Safety

Refactoring a God Object Detector That Was Itself a God Object

Stillwater Validation for Rustaceans: Accumulating Errors Instead of Failing Fast

Glen Baker

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Glen Baker's blogs

Refined Types in Rust: Parse, Don't Validate

Stillwater 1.0: Pragmatic Effect Composition and Validation for Rust

Compile-Time Resource Tracking in Rust: From Runtime Brackets to Type-Level Safety

Refactoring a God Object Detector That Was Itself a God Object

Stillwater Validation for Rustaceans: Accumulating Errors Instead of Failing Fast

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Glen Baker

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Glen Baker's blogs

Refined Types in Rust: Parse, Don't Validate

Stillwater 1.0: Pragmatic Effect Composition and Validation for Rust

Compile-Time Resource Tracking in Rust: From Runtime Brackets to Type-Level Safety

Refactoring a God Object Detector That Was Itself a God Object

Stillwater Validation for Rustaceans: Accumulating Errors Instead of Failing Fast