Curious Engineer

12,382 independent blogs and every post they ever published, back to 1990.

Mostly systems programming, C++, compilers, reverse engineering and retro computing, with some food and wine. 5,932 of the blogs posted in the last two years.

Latest posts

From blogs rated good or better. Busy blogs are folded after three posts a day.

  1. Monitoring My ColdFusion Scheduled Tasks With Grafana CloudBen Nadel's Web Development and User Experience Feed @ BenNadel.com
  2. I miss my Swedish keyboardRubenerd
  3. Why Adam Smith denounced slaveryAdam Smith Institute
  4. Novellas with groffmovq.de (en)
  5. On reading with my cat on my lap without waking her upbookofjoe
  6. Costume Quest: The Halloween RPGThe Bryant Review
  7. The Ad Video Screens Don’t Make MoneyIdiomdrottning
  8. Saturday: Hili dialogueWhy Evolution Is True
  9. Managing Yoast SEO Sitemaps on Staging SitesVincent Schmalbach
  10. Music and the Body: Richard Powers on the Power of SongThe Marginalian
  11. Quickpost: WT20 Welding Electrodes & RadiationDidier Stevens
  12. Testing Your Package README Code SnippetsVincent Schmalbach
  13. PostgreSQL vs. MySQL: Syntax, Stored Routines, and PerformanceVincent Schmalbach
  14. Van Helsing - Could this be another C64 hit from GriffonSoft and Psytronik Software?Indie Retro News
  15. A Forgotten PlayStation Horror RPG Is Finally Getting an English Translation for HalloweenThe Bryant Review
  16. Conservatives Are Mad at Indians for Exposing What They AreRichard Hanania's Newsletter
  17. Radio Waves: EWTN to End Shortwave Service, Silver Lake FM Pirate KBLT, and NBC 100 Years AgoThe SWLing Post
  18. Oct 31, 2026Chris McCormick
  19. G.K. Chesterton’s Nightmare: ‘The Man Who Was Thursday’MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚
  20. The 1960s Space ProgramIn My Tribe
  21. Serious coding with LLMs. Lab notes 2026-10-31: Teaser Demo of the LLM-coded EACMP application, and a quizR&A IT Strategy & Architecture
  22. HQR CodesLiens en vrac de sebsauvage
  23. Learn to Edit STL Files in Just a Few MinutesHackaday
  24. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,263Lawyers, Guns & Money
  25. Test your SaaS replacement before cancelling the originalFlavio Copes
  26. Mark Spots Radios in the Korean Zombie Film PeninsulaThe SWLing Post
  27. Roc'n Rope - Konami's 1983 arcade climber for the Commodore 64 via BrokenBytesIndie Retro News
  28. Google value plunges by $500bn as its own AI search hits ad salesLiens en vrac de sebsauvage
  29. Top Links 1271 The Trump org’s network. Marketizing compute. Sticky wages, brass bands throbbing in the parks & the future reign of happiness and peace.Chartbook
  30. Occasional (Halloween) paper: A mother gives her allCrooked Timber
  31. Azeem Azhar on the Explosion of Hacking and Other AI IssuesPaul Krugman
  32. Some LinksCafe Hayek
  33. This Week in Package Management: 31 October 2026Andrew Nesbitt
  34. Nasdaq faces $2 trillion wipeout in October as AI spending fears deepen | ReutersLiens en vrac de sebsauvage
  35. Ecological Modeling JobAzimuth
  36. How to Navigate the Roman EmpireMaps Mania
  37. The Hallmark dilemmaSeth's Blog
  38. Gating FunctionsDoomberg
  39. Saturday Mac riddles 384The Eclectic Light Company
  40. Support for Office 2021 has endeddiamond geezer
  41. Quotation of the Day…Cafe Hayek
  42. 3D Printed Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator Cools with FireHackaday
  43. New products for new species, revisitedThe Eclectic Light Company
  44. A Spark Of Color In November’s Gray (2026 Wallpapers Edition)Smashing Magazine
  45. How to make it easy to leave your SaaSFlavio Copes
  46. TfL FoI requests in October 2026diamond geezer
  47. Mario Draghi on Debt, Growth and Europe’s FuturePhilipp D. Dubach
  48. Spooky Speedbrake on the Way to the Singularity?Campbell Ramble
  49. Ubuntu LTS kernels still unfixed for critical CVE-2026-98432freenode news
  50. Baked bean tariffs benefit baked bean manufacturersAdam Smith Institute
  51. Yet another level design updateLaura Michet's Blog
  52. Poles ApartFutility Closet
  53. Weeknotes: Oct. 24-30, 2026Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
  54. Reading Anthropic’s S-1 as a Claude Code useralexkras.com
  55. El Nino's Nemesis, The PDO, Helps Protect the Northwest Coast This YearCliff Mass Weather Blog
  56. “… which is to say brightened up their faces, showed fire in their square or round or curiously slanted eyes. Flame guttered in their toothed mouths. Sparks leaped out their ripe-cut ears. Halloween.”The Boston Diaries
  57. UCSI retry floods boot logs after USB merge for 7.4-rc1freenode news
  58. [AINews] Google admits AI Mode hurts Search revenue; -15% $500B drop worst since 2004 IPO. AI Bear Market coming?Latent.Space
  59. Novelty Camera To USB CameraHackaday
  60. Anthropic S-1, the Claude Loop and Economics of Frontier AISatPost by Trung Phan
  61. Eternal Black OctoberPixel Envy
  62. North Korea Gets Away With $3 Billion From BinancePixel Envy
  63. Building the Internet We Want: Law for a Connected WorldPatently-O
  64. The 13 AI Giants, from Alphabet to Oracle, Sit on $1.13 Trillion in Cash. They Can Keep Spending on AI even if Markets Get UglyWolf Street
  65. Life Imitates Art: The $6.3 Billion Binance HackFeld Thoughts
  66. Prospero: a new coding harness for a more civilized agenull program
  67. Report of the Summit on Math Research in the Age of AIWhat's new
  68. Being more selective about python-lsp-server plugins in my Emacs setupChris's Wiki
  69. DNS resolution failures in macOS 26 & 27Wade Tregaskis
  70. Nine Video Games (Part One)The Fishbowl
  71. Farewell, my CaptainNoahpinion
  72. Is an AI Bubble Bursting? (Robert Wright & Liron Shapira)NonZero Newsletter
  73. Inside a malicious Claude Code-branded extension and its persistent SSH backdoorMicrosoft Security Blog
  74. We rewrote the alt text on Google Store's Pixel Watch 5 page. Its images went from a 30% to an 84% match.DEJAN
  75. Identity Assertion JWT Authorization Grant Draft 06Articles by Aaron Parecki
  76. Future XR glassesKen's Blog
  77. Common clay of the west returning to the Democratic Party?Lawyers, Guns & Money
  78. Cascade: I-001 and I-638 would harm youth bike education and be ‘profoundly inequitable’ for youth athletesSeattle Bike Blog
  79. Lambert Strether’s New BlogIan Welsh
  80. Why You Should Turn On Code Inspections in Visual AssistVisual Assist Blog
  81. Upon The Nature Of FearSpitalfields Life
  82. Halloween with the CamelsLeaded Solder
  83. Large System Extensions (LSE) and Atomics on AArch64Joel Sikström
  84. Upcoming C++ User Group meetings in November 2026Blog : Standard C++
  85. Your Compose Code, on More Screens and Less CPUCodename One
  86. The AI ContradictionJacques Mattheij
  87. Digital minimalismVitalik Buterin's website
  88. cyberwitcheryVeit's Blog
  89. Jim CapobiancoUses This
  90. How to Remove Unwanted Elements from a Website with Browser Extensions82MHz
  91. This Week in Plasma: An Avalanche of Performance Improvements and Bug FixesKDE Blogs
  92. Quickpost: Ghost USB-CDidier Stevens
  93. A Star Trek look for gluonGeir's Everything
  94. Artificial intelligence and powerawanderingmind
  95. 2 more posts from Vincent Schmalbach
  96. 1 more post from Hackaday

  1. OSS updates September and October 2026REPL adventures
  2. Romantic Dream World, And Need For Approval, Behind Multi-Billion Renewables-to-Hydrogen BoondogglePublic
  3. How to Audit Your Yoast SEO Sitemap OutputVincent Schmalbach
  4. College will only cost $20 a monthSoftware and Tech stories from an Insider
  5. Mirroring your socialsA Whole Lotta Nothing
  6. Documenting Spatie Laravel Package-Tools IntegrationsVincent Schmalbach
  7. Talk by Dana Moshkovitz: The Unique Games Conjecture – Proved (!!?)Shtetl-Optimized
  8. Fridays [with Nicole Sandler] with LOLGOPemptywheel
  9. The GRANITE Act: Reasserting America’s Border and Congress’ Primacy Online, No More, No LessPreston Byrne
  10. Transaction Locking in MySQL and PostgreSQLVincent Schmalbach
  11. Midterms Deep Dive: An exclusive election model update and poll releaseThe Argument
  12. OK, so maybe the AI crash is here: now what?Homo Ludditus
  13. SumatraPDF new features: June 21, 2026Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog
  14. Binance’s latest adventuresRubenerd
  15. This DIY Arcade Cabinet Accepts Strange Cuboid Concrete CartridgesHackster News
  16. A 1982 Modem for $100Hackaday
  17. Linux Foundationals: From Silicon to Userspace - The Boot and Init ChainLarvitz Blog
  18. “Black October” for AI Developer Platformswiz.io
  19. Intel Q3 2026 Earnings Data Center Soars While PC Faces Memory PressureServeTheHome
  20. PyTorch adds system oneDNN option for CPU and XPUfreenode news
  21. A sidebar on Code ReviewStories by Camille Fournier on Medium
  22. Things I Learned about Emacs This WeekDaniel's Blog
  23. Sponsorship Openings for Daring Fireball (Including The Talk Show)Daring Fireball
  24. Field Notes from the SalonsKasurian
  25. Note published on October 30, 2026 at 10:13 PM UTCMolly White's activity feed
  26. Friday discussion postSlow Boring
  27. A slightly better ThreadPoolExecutor in Pystd through typesNibble Stew
  28. Find And Verify Business Email Addresses And Build Lead Lists With HunterAPI Evangelist
  29. Blacklight candyAI Weirdness
  30. dbreunig/nesformerSimon Willison's Weblog
  31. Bonus: Jolly Ranchers + LASERSAI Weirdness
  32. ★ MacBook Pro Pricing and Configurations for M6, M5 Pro, and M5 MaxDaring Fireball
  33. PyTorch locks down export load against unsafe operator namesfreenode news
  34. The En Banc Queue for October 2026Patently-O
  35. A very abbreviated list of a few corruption scandals from the first half of Trump’s second termLawyers, Guns & Money
  36. Dragonfly for AI frameworks: search, memory, and a Redis-compatible path to productionDragonflyDB Blog
  37. KVM nested VMX teardown can corrupt unrelated process memoryfreenode news
  38. It’s Hard to Win a Schedule A Case Without Filing the “Schedule A”–Speedy Simulator v. Schedule A DefendantsTechnology & Marketing Law Blog
  39. Predictably, Stan Woodward Contemptuously Stomped into the Broadview 6 Caseemptywheel
  40. Austin 2026 – Three Page ChallengeJohn August
  41. ($) Q3 2026 Performance Update: Suitably ParanoidInterconnected
  42. Web Excursions for October 30th, 2026BrettTerpstra.com
  43. [Note] Is Anthropic going to prove me wrong?Dan Q
  44. Earnings & ExpectationsA Wealth of Common Sense
  45. A NOTE AHEAD OF TUESDAY’S MIDTERMSSeymour Hersh
  46. Scripting News: Friday, October 30, 2026Scripting News
  47. Childhood and Education #22: Voice Without ExitDon't Worry About the Vase
  48. Childhood and Education #22: Voice Without ExitDon't Worry About the Vase
  49. Assorted Stupidity #176Lowering the Bar
  50. Great Art Explained: Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio....kottke.org
  51. Trump furious that associate would take a $50 million bribe…without giving him tributeLawyers, Guns & Money
  52. Hermes Is Actually GoodElijah Potter's Blog
  53. Takeaways From Apple’s LA ExperienceAbove Avalon
  54. Where Are The Trump Voters?Lawyers, Guns & Money
  55. Making Internal Combustion Engines Better With More ValvesHackaday
  56. It's the Energy Changing the FramesDaniel Miessler
  57. Scale, Stop And Start Your Kubernetes Clusters Automatically With Azure Kubernetes ServiceAPI Evangelist
  58. CipherX Microdot Tattoosbookofjoe
  59. Do women have more spectacular natural hair colors that men?Wood From Eden
  60. Venture Capital is So Fucking Simple: What I Learned from Lunch with David TischCharlie O'Donnell
  61. Waymo Partners With Toyota For New Robotaxi. It Could Have Been TeslaBrad Ideas
  62. 1 more post from Vincent Schmalbach
  63. 1 more post from freenode news