The Curious Engineer

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Diego Martín Lafuente's personal blog about business, design, history, technology, and other topics.

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66 from 25 Mar 2001 to 18 Sep 2026
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2026 15

  1. Three +1s and a prayer
  2. She Will Be Back Before September
  3. Congratulations on Your Ten Milliseconds
  4. I refused to give a launcher Full Disk Access, so I built one
  5. Programmers Were the Compiler
  6. The Last Bug on Earth
  7. The Actor Was the Expensive Part
  8. Real Engineers Dig With Their Bare Hands
  9. You’re Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand
  10. The One-Person Company Fantasy
  11. The Difference Between Engineers and Tool Operators
  12. Is Blogging Still Worth It in 2026?
  13. The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear
  14. The Interview Starts Before the First Question
  15. The way I am working in 2026

2019 4

  1. A common UX problem in e-commerce product listings
  2. In Defense of Functional CSS
  3. The Startup Graveyard Is Full of Problem Solvers
  4. The Utilitarian CSS Methodology

2016 1

  1. Superstition in Rome and the Sibylline Books

2015 2

  1. To the Victor, the Spoils
  2. To be remembered in ancient Rome

2014 6

  1. The Roman Severity
  2. The Remote Control Syndrome
  3. What Designing Native Mobile Apps Taught Me
  4. The Checklist Manifesto, or Why Smart People Still Forget Things
  5. Boredom is killing you, take a breath and keep going
  6. 10 types of tattoos you should never get

2013 8

  1. On Unsolicited Redesigns
  2. How to install Jekyll in OSX
  3. Yes, I Use a Framework. So What?
  4. I Deleted Almost Every App on My iPhone
  5. Captive Portals Should Get Out of the Way
  6. The Inevitable End of Paper Books
  7. Why Are Links Blue?
  8. The Great Intermediary Panic

2012 7

  1. Protect Me from Facebook
  2. A 500,000-Euro Website
  3. Discover the Wonderful World of SVG
  4. Alamut
  5. The art of presenting
  6. My blog no longer has comments
  7. How I quit smoking

2008 2

  1. 49 pesos
  2. To be free and have peace

2007 6

  1. Dexter
  2. Let's see if they understand it...
  3. 太閤 (Taiko)
  4. To Be Born Again
  5. Ripley's Game (2002)
  6. Adjacent Sibling Selectors in CSS

2006 4

  1. Driver, Stop Please
  2. Asa, the Executioner 首斬り朝
  3. A Blog Is Still a Blog Without Comments
  4. The Devil's Advocate

2005 3

  1. The Prisons We Call Airports
  2. Cibermini-d making a ciberpost for the ciberreaders
  3. 42 hours without smoking

2004 2

  1. 13'99 euros
  2. Assault on the Viceroy

2003 4

  1. 100 years in the air
  2. Killed for Inventing, Except He Wasn’t
  3. Aciberneto
  4. Why Is It So Hard to Accept That Good Things Cost Money?

2001 2

  1. What is a weblog?
  2. First post