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
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.
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
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…
What I learned this week 02-14-2026
What I learned this week Software Nice overview of PolyMarket activity
Another interesting “deploy software here” business
Amazing website, good content as well - how is data stored
Fast LLM inference, we’re going to get model on a chip soon
Business/Finance The Economic Impact of Mass Deportations
Interesting Links Paddy lost
DIY noise canceling headphones
Math/Stats Travel Other I feel like long Fishing line makes for a good analogy for complexity as project grows in size (both scope # or people).
What I learned this week 02-07-2026
What I learned this week Software 3D engine
The Website is down
Nobody knows how the whole system works
Business/Finance Good overview of sub penny rule
Physical products are… difficult
Oops
Interesting Links Vacant land fraud
Math/Stats Travel Other The Tenkara bum blog
Places to fish:
Willow springs creek hike behind the dam Canyon creek, passed woods canyon Silver creek (upper) show low
What I learned this week 02-01-2026
What I learned this week Software SQL >
Business/Finance SUbstack tv
Gambling on…. wait… gambling
TSMC pushing risk to hyper scalers
Interesting Links On the saw, this dude is the CEO of Obsidian
First make me care
Removal of security theater
Slop Markets in everything
Math/Stats Travel Other
What I learned this week 01-24-2026
What I learned this week Software Being useful
Business/Finance Stupid title but interesting
Interesting Links “Put differently, there were fewer births in China in 2025 than in 1776”
I got some of these spicy peppers from my neighbor
Evil exists primarily in the eye of the beholder, especially in the eye of the victim.
Math/Stats Travel Other
What I learned this week 01-17-2026
What I learned this week Software Need to try out sprites
Tailscale remote into device
Prepared statement, the anti-sql injection
The over engineered data pipeline
Business/Finance The Blog that made me start writing
Pair trade
Iron Condor
Interesting Links Existential choice paralysis
Math/Stats Travel Other
What I learned this week 01-10-2026
What I learned this week Software Planet scale
Andy’s annual review
Modern column storage
Business/Finance Interesting thoughts about modern work
Interesting Links FogCam
18000 water cups
Math/Stats Travel Traveling »»>
Other The Crazy Alberto
The real issue people miss is that code isn’t an asset, it’s a liability. Every line of code is a potential bug or something that will slow down your future development. Experienced devs know to weight trade offs of more code vs maintainability.