The Curious Engineer

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Tao Bojlén

btao.org

Software engineer interested in philosophy, security, and using technology for social good.

Essays / personalSociety / politics / economySoftware / engineering practiceSecurity

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27 from 31 Aug 2016 to 17 Aug 2026
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monthly (10 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 9

  1. I don't enjoy the Internet any more
  2. The forge we deserve
  3. Announcing: Parrot.garden
  4. Just one more prompt
  5. New Notes RSS feed
  6. The Normie Loop
  7. Everything changes, and nothing changes
  8. Introducing RSS-O-Matic
  9. On Burnout

2025 4

  1. How to get hired at a startup
  2. The AI Outrage Machine
  3. Chesterton's Fence is no more
  4. The best productivity system that's ever existed

2023 3

  1. Column- and row-oriented databases
  2. Bloom filters
  3. Don't filter in Django's qet_queryset

2022 1

  1. "The right tool for the job"

2021 1

  1. npm install is curl | bash

2020 6

  1. A web of trust for npm
  2. Literature review: Routing attacks on Tor
  3. Reasons not to use Telegram
  4. Feel-good security in ProtonMail
  5. On mixing plaintext and encrypted messages
  6. Running ElasticSearch in podman on Fedora 32

2019 2

  1. Books I enjoyed in 2019
  2. fediverse.space awarded NGI Zero grant

2016 1

  1. Self and Lack Thereof: On Kierkegaard and Capitalism