The Curious Engineer

All blogs / Software / engineering practice

DBohdan.com

dbohdan.com

The introduction to and index of D. Bohdan’s personal wiki.

Software / engineering practiceDev tools / editors / IDEsLinux / UnixAI / MLEssays / personal

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Posts
59 from 5 Apr 2020 to 18 Oct 2026
Posting
monthly (7 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog
Feed
https://dbohdan.com/

2026 6

  1. A Claude Code transcript is extended memory
  2. Trois Sonneries
  3. Improvised log export from Claude Code in the cloud
  4. Porting Starlark to pure Python with Claude
  5. From Whitman to Instagram with Claude
  6. My poetry

2025 7

  1. AI writing
  2. Filesystem hierarchy
  3. Public keys
  4. The MIT License
  5. mkcd: The missing shell shortcut
  6. Long-running servers
  7. Small utilities

2024 6

  1. WavPack’s roundtrip advantage over FLAC
  2. Web template delimiters: a chronology
  3. Developing gmi2md with Claude
  4. How I write Python
  5. Rust: maybe not for rapid iteration
  6. Problems with complex scripting in fish shell

2023 4

  1. Naming things
  2. fcron is the best cron
  3. Clean mount lists in Linux
  4. Fixing passwd(1) broken by PAM

2021 9

  1. “Regex” vs. “regexp”
  2. Is it “LessWrong” or “Less Wrong”?
  3. JPEG XL would be Turing-complete
  4. Single-file scripts that download their dependencies
  5. Browser tabs
  6. Nonviolent Communication
  7. Nick Land on AI alignment
  8. Unix command queues
  9. Converting WMF (Windows Metafile) images to SVG

2020 27

  1. Why don’t rationalists win more?
  2. Translations
  3. How to have thumbnails in file dialogs in certain GTK applications
  4. Caddy server recipes
  5. X is not about Y
  6. My fiction
  7. OOP illustrations from Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0: Programmer’s Guide
  8. My setup
  9. Laws of organizations and projects
  10. Tags should take arguments
  11. H. P. Lovecraft
  12. Line breaks in twtxt
  13. Six word stories
  14. Hacks and true stories of computing
  15. Music recommendations
  16. Reading notes and reviews
  17. Classifying game mechanics and types of play
  18. Self-hosted PaaS
  19. Consciousness
  20. Better data compressors
  21. Procedural generation
  22. Organizing information
  23. Dynamics of online communities
  24. Tsutomu Nihei
  25. Games that use standard GUI widgets
  26. Fiction recommendations
  27. Old blog