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.

TinyPNG’s

Conflict free replicated data types

Visual walkthrough of diffusion modelsxs

Good Postgres blog

Business/Finance

Rent seeking in science

“AI Pays for itself” first prompt: connect wallet…

US imports more from Taiwan than china now

Price controls suppress the mechanism that prevents chaos, and the resulting chaos invites still more control, creating an escalating cycle the price system would have prevented from starting.

Culture is those behaviors that employees believe will be rewarded.

Spinnaker Cool place ot visit and make chocolate

Cig app with a great UI

GK chesterton

The whispering earring

Math/Stats

Travel

Other

Wild Shia LaBeouf Interview

The 2026 Barkley