What I learned this week 04-18-2026

What I learned this week Software Business/Finance Interesting Links Gas tax by state Wood powered car Cat5e Cable Math/Stats Travel Other Juggling machetes
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What I learned this week 04-18-2026

What I learned this week Software ps -p <PID> -o comm= Looks up a specific process by its ID and prints the executable path Laws of Software Engineering ggsql looks pretty cool Exe dev from tailscale’s founder Remotion looks like a fun way to generate videos Flipbook… kind of cool, idk about increasing the nondeterminism of websites though, but maybe it works for some stuff https://flipbook.page/n/d2e274458fba498ab57f59b39f11796a https://flipbook.page/n/826db532ec2e441ba4891ffc02c4a7b9 Business/Finance Interesting Links How decaf works
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What I learned this week 04-11-2026

What I learned this week Software Ngrok looks cool Debug your LLM Cloud flare tunnels are dope. python3 -m http.server 8080 & cloudflared tunnel –url http://localhost:8080 On profiling a git repo before reading it Business/Finance Interesting Links They’re made out of meat!? Brainstorming is about making yourself look good, not the THING actually good Math/Stats Travel Other recalcitrant Focaccia recipe
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What I learned this week 04-04-2026

What I learned this week Software Python cad library Build a GPU Business/Finance Interesting Links Pallet camper Rescue fraud Fun fusion overview Poker lecture at Harvard Math/Stats Travel Other
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What I learned this week 03-28-2026

What I learned this week Software Alan M. Turing allowed himself to be drawn into the discussion of the question whether computers can think. The question is just as relevant and just as meaningful as the question whether submarines can swim. The goat Copy all rendered html copy(document.documentElement.outerHTML) Common Design Diagram Mistakes Eggs… and high token cost Business/Finance Interesting Links John Rawls 18p hard lemonade Hotels but only during the day
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What I learned this week 03-21-2026

What I learned this week Software Voltage glitching 7x better because “composition” Bellman equation Business/Finance Suno AI music… Autonomous driving might have the biggest positive impact on the world this decade Interesting Links Plant watering: Making things shitty Billiken One Trillion brackets Math/Stats Travel Other “the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.
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What I learned this week 03-14-2026

What I learned this week Software SQLite skip scan Dead internet arrival Namespace prevents bucket squatting Business/Finance Interesting Links Wow, 21 years off grid Clacker news Math/Stats Travel Other Doom
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What I learned this week 03-07-2026

What I learned this week Software I did not know that appending a shell command with & runs it asynchronously. You can view running things with jobs. nc ip port to send a message to a port, nc -lv port to listen to it. yes just pipes y to stdout over and over pstree for viewing process tree on Linux (all starts from systemd) powermetrics is useful for cpu/process info.
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What I learned this week 02-28-2026

What I learned this week Software One step from magic the bottleneck in AI-assisted development isn’t the quality of your ideas - it’s the quality of your feedback loops. Business/Finance Why isn’t GDP growing faster????? Insider trading pt 1000 Insider trading part 1001 Levered single stock etfs Interesting Links The best college hockey player My new favorite hickey team name Obree Math/Stats Travel Other Distill scientific papers wild way to pay rent
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What I learned this week 02-21-2026

What I learned this week Software your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping Sony pictures hack The “AI makes people boring.” Thesis Business/Finance Interesting Links Belarus likes to drink A new word I learned Ski ballet AI proof business? 2 Rubiks Cubes 2 Cig 2 Beer Lasers Math/Stats Jensen’s inequality, I’d like to write an article about this one Travel Other Penis injections…
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