The Curious Engineer

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Hi, I'm Dave Kiss

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34 from 2 Feb 2019 to 27 Oct 2026
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monthly (17 in the last year)
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personal blog

2026 17

  1. Oct 27 Claude, the new kid in town
  2. Oct 23 My slides called their own cues
  3. Sep 24 A eulogy for the software engineer
  4. Sep 24 I opened a fake auto shop for AI agents
  5. Jul 24 Blissful ignorance
  6. Jul 7 My spare Claude tokens research charities while I sleep
  7. Feb 23 Just-in-time integrations
  8. Jan 27 The LLM line
  9. Jan 21 Your AI agent has amnesia
  10. Jan 19 Our stage lighting is a shower curtain and a smart home light
  11. Jan 15 Stop calling it vibe coding
  12. Jan 14 Agentic ergonomics
  13. Jan 12 Burnboard, a leaderboard for your AI coding token burn
  14. Jan 10 Whimsy is free now
  15. Jan 8 The 1000 commits problem
  16. Jan 7 I rebuilt my entire website via Telegram
  17. Jan 4 Ideas are cheap, execution is cheaper

2025 3

  1. Oct 29 I had write access to lebronjames.com hours before The Decision (2014)
  2. Aug 10 Where do meetups go when they die?
  3. Jun 11 Work without work

2024 3

  1. Nov 24 Call AI Santa to tell him your Christmas List
  2. Sep 15 Cursor invented the 25x engineer
  3. Jul 27 How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40

2023 7

  1. Nov 29 12 lessons from 5 years of running a tech meetup
  2. Oct 20 Löyly
  3. Mar 15 Airbnb is worse than a casino addiction
  4. Feb 15 You should be using a cloud development environment
  5. Feb 5 Chunked uploads and the single car-to-house grocery trip
  6. Feb 2 Web Components: my awkward high-school friend
  7. Feb 1 Write better without soul-sucking college lectures

2022 3

  1. Oct 18 All my neurodiverse friends
  2. Sep 21 On fall
  3. Sep 9 Why you should write

2019 1

  1. Feb 2 Retheming a Coors beer fridge