The Curious Engineer

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by Jan Lehnardt

writing.jan.io

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’15’20’25
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44 from 22 Feb 2011 to 22 Oct 2026
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now and then (5 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 5

  1. The FOSDEM Pledge
  2. View Source
  3. No Silver Bullets
  4. Vegan Japan October 2025 Edition
  5. AI Veganism

2025 1

  1. How to disable Google Gemini in your Google Workspace

2024 2

  1. Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe (vegan & gluten-free)
  2. Ebike Recommendations

2019 1

  1. Save Co.Up

2017 4

  1. Community Legacy
  2. Understanding the Facebook vs Apache Software Foundation License Kerfuffle
  3. Comprendre le bazar de licence entre Facebook et l’Apache Software Foundation
  4. Sustainable Open Source: The Maintainers Perspective or: How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love Open Source

2016 1

  1. Ten Years with CouchDB

2015 2

  1. Sustainable Open Source
  2. Why Technology Hype is a Good Thing

2014 2

  1. Engaging With Hateful People in Your Community Lends Legitimacy to Their Presence
  2. The Innovator in Hindsight

2013 11

  1. The State of CouchDB 2013
  2. Understanding CouchDB Conflicts
  3. The Parable of Mustache.js
  4. Let’s Start a Revolution
  5. How To Give the Killer Tech Talk — A Pamphlet
  6. Words Considered Harmful
  7. Node Dublin — Open Source Communities
  8. The State of CouchDB
  9. CouchDB Conf Recap
  10. Changes and New Beginnings
  11. The Wartime CEO

2012 11

  1. My Quantified Ass
  2. In Defence of Taking Photos with iPad
  3. Dear Merlin
  4. Brave
  5. Freifunk Statt Angst
  6. JavaScript for Absolute Beginners
  7. Apple & Standards
  8. User-centric vs. Enterprise Products or a Small Utopia
  9. Gif me now
  10. Plan B (Back to the Woods)
  11. Trying Duck Duck Go

2011 4

  1. The Backpack
  2. Elop to English
  3. Couchbase Open Source Internship Berlin Summer 2011
  4. Translations of Selected Parts of “The Multiscreen Revolution” to English