Writing
Notes from the download path.
Engineering posts about the things that go wrong between a URL and a file on disk. No hot takes, no rate-limit philosophy. The actual edge cases.
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wget vs curl, finally settled
Two decades of arguing about wget versus curl have not produced a winner because both tools were designed for different shapes of problem. Here is the actual answer.
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Building a single static binary that runs on every platform you actually use
Single static binaries are the most under-rated distribution format in 2026. Here is what we learned about shipping one for rewget — what works, what is irreducibly platform-shaped, and where the line between marketing claim and reality actually sits.
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Resumable downloads: the corner cases nobody tests
Resumable downloads look like a five-line feature until they meet a real CDN. Here are the corner cases that turn a clean resume into a corrupted file, a silent restart, or a download that loops forever — and what we test for in rewget.
httpdownloadsedge-cases