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 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 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.

What I learned this week Software Setuid Business/Finance Accounting explained in graphs Interesting Links A Modern Movie Ranking Cool site for learning knots Ghost guns Math/Stats Travel Other New Years Resolutions: Become conversationally proficient in Spanish Be able to fish for myself both shore fishing and stream fishing (not fly fishing) Continue to Travel as much as possible

What I learned this week Software Livecoding melodic DNB music in Strudel Business/Finance Selling onions > Selling software Sell your… voice Interesting Links Nonce When a measure become a target it ceases to become a good measure… goof background on Goodhart’s law sepulchral Math/Stats Great Transformer explainer Travel Other Chicken Stock

What I learned this week Software readability, hackability and abstraction Reverse a hexdump cat some_file.txt | xxd -r >reversed_hex_dump.txt Databento looks great Start a dev container Business/Finance Insider trading? Interesting Links Cool rugs Think before grabbing Why are so many peds killed by cars Math/Stats Travel Other Need to build this custom big mouth bass

What I learned this week Software Cool designs Interesting points That’s also why I see no point in using AI to, say, write an essay, just like I see no point in bringing a forklift to the gym. Sure, it can lift the weights, but I’m not trying to suspend a barbell above the floor for the hell of it. I lift it because I want to become the kind of person who can lift it.

What I learned this week Software Write stderr to dev/null: 2>/dev/null To find a file based on user+group+size: find / -type f -user bandit7 -group bandit6 -size 33c Only unique lines in a text file: sort some_file.txt | uniq -u strings command in Linux is a utility used to extract printable character sequences. Business/Finance Yikes, but not surprising… insider trading applies only applies to some of us A bit negative but thought provoking

What I learned this week Software Business/Finance Interesting Links Transfer back to VHS Math/Stats Travel Other Jason Williams was teammates with Randy Moss I think I deleted all my saved links this week so only these this week.

What I learned this week Software Business/Finance Overregulation, where’s the happyMiddle ground? Interesting Links Telezapper Math/Stats Travel Other