The Curious Engineer

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Calvin French-Owen

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40 from 31 May 2010 to 26 Aug 2026
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now and then (5 in the last year)
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2026 5

  1. Small Models Have Arrived
  2. Durable Objects are Made for Agents
  3. The Oracle and the Firm
  4. Coding Agents in Feb 2026
  5. How I Use Obsidian

2025 5

  1. You Still Need to Think
  2. The Coding Agent Metagame
  3. Reflections on OpenAI
  4. Upsides and Downsides
  5. How much of a manager are you?

2023 1

  1. Heat Pumps, More Than You Wanted to Know

2022 3

  1. Designs for Thought
  2. Visiting Quaise
  3. From Founder to CTO

2021 1

  1. High Bit-rate People

2020 7

  1. Lessons for early stage founders
  2. A new adventure
  3. The Real Magic of GPT-3
  4. UX doesn’t end with the user
  5. The Secret of the Weekplan
  6. How to sell a B2B product
  7. Great products don’t require permission

2019 1

  1. Personas: Under the hood

2018 2

  1. Guarding against failures in a hundred-step pipeline
  2. Building a culture of shared understanding

2016 3

  1. The One-trick Pony and The Empire
  2. Write
  3. Terraform at scale

2013 2

  1. An Introduction to Node’s New Streams
  2. The Cost of an ACL Injury

2012 4

  1. Building Purgatory: Using node.js to build a delayed queue
  2. What 10gen nailed with MongoDB
  3. Node and Express Tips
  4. Indexing Schemaless Documents in Mongo

2010 5

  1. Who’s who in upstream caching
  2. Luhn’s Auto-abstract Algorithm
  3. Dynamic Images in Django
  4. LZW Compression
  5. The Magic of B-trees

Undated 1

  1. Bookshelf