What I learned this week 08-30-2025
What I learned this week Software Nimble and Lance vs parquet
One of the most well designed blog
Interesting thoughts on booleans
Business/Finance An argument for the US stake in intel
RIP llm subscription mode
Full circle back to physical currency
Interesting Links What a cool sport
Strawberry TIL
Got to experience this haboob
Red queen’s race
Laser peening
Longest name
Math/Stats Travel Other Because transparency is of prime importance, the healthy cornea does not have or need blood vessels within it.
What I learned this week 08-23-2025
What I learned this week Officially one year of doing this!
Software OLAP ORMS
Whitespace could be the language of the future
Semantic layers… if your org can stomach it
Filter first
Business/Finance $enterprise
Yes, tracking down owners of things IS that hard America!, hell yeah!
Interesting Links “As real returns compress, risk increases to compensate."
Bases in Obsidian
Math/Stats A little further into derivatives
Travel Other Gigantic jet
What I learned this week 08-16-2025
What I learned this week Software Business/Finance Poly Market Arbing
Uh Oh Kodak
Leslie’s has some… uh… debt obligations
Interesting Links Clams in poland
Math/Stats Travel Other Alcohol
Creatine in cycling
What I learned this week 08-09-2025
What I learned this week Software tor history
Business/Finance Germany exit taxes…incentives…
Interesting Links Oops
a little transparency goes a long way
Math/Stats Travel Other Waist to height ratio better than bmi?
MOGENS by Jens Peter Jacobsen, I’d like to read
Don’t start with the thank you.
Equivalent speed
Reese + Oreo, incredible
What I learned this week 08-02-2025
What I learned this week Software Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’
Ruining postgres
VC!
Web app for decoding
Big O Caml
hyrumslaw
“With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody.”
Business/Finance Interesting Links Taking a break
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee.
What I learned this week 07-26-2025
What I learned this week Software Setting up a new mac
Addded Raycast to my Mac and it’s quite nice Quick start mcp
Zip Bomb server protection
don’t just red docs, also talk to them
Interesting, pretty undeniable use case for LLMs that’s effective zprof
Letting Q run wild
Business/Finance Interesting Links Math/Stats Travel Other
What I learned this week 07-19-2025
What I learned this week Software Cloudflare Tunnels interesting to check out
How a screen works
Local LLM
Business/Finance Is this a “we are not a monopoly” play?
AI Capex
Interesting Links New Anti-biotic
Math/Stats Travel Other
What I learned this week 07-12-2025
What I learned this week Software Put Doom on a Peloton:
Found the Wifi Debugging screen Downloaded Android SDK Platform-Tools and used adb to connect and inspect the android tablet. ./adp pair and then ./adp connect and ./adb shell to get a shell Can even take a screenshot and pull it back onto my computer screencap /sdcard/myscreen.png & ./adb pull /sdcard/myscreen.png I side loaded Nova Launcher by downloading the .
What I learned this week 07-05-2025
What I learned this week Software What’s security for anyway?
How NAT Traversal Works - Let’s say you’re making your own protocol and that you want NAT traversal. The protocol should be based on UDP. - For UDP, the rule is very simple: the firewall allows an inbound UDP packet if it previously saw a matching outbound packet. - The problems start when two of our “clients” want to talk directly.
What I learned this week 06-28-2025
What I learned this week Software Bad measures
What NPM Fund means
View ipv4/v6 Route tables: netstat -r
Typically for ISPs give out more than a /64 for ipv6 so people can have multiple networks (/60 or /56 possibly) /64 only allows for one ipv6 network so if you were to have multiple vlans at home you’d have some issues with a /64
IPv4
Business/Finance Interesting Links Dropping thousands of dollars on peoples head from a helicopter