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What I learned this week Software LLMs are the commodity, not people Good video on the GIL Business/Finance Gotta love parm Interesting Links Food recommended to me by an uber driver in DC More food recommended to me by an uber driver in DC Math/Stat Trav…

What I learned this week Software Business/Finance Interesting Links What “their ilk” means Heat Training Math/Stat Travel Other

What I learned this week Software Elevators Business/Finance Interesting Links Bacteria are cool Math/Stat Travel Other challah Hayden Flour Mill & Silos

What I learned this week Software Scaling pg listen/notify Perceptual hashing Business/Finance One man bike shorts company Red White Interesting Links Types of flour Math/Stat Travel Other

What I learned this week Software Business/Finance Camel Racing brought to you by Pogba Interesting Links Insane Music video Kalshi infecting the news Don’t Take the Black Pill Math/Stat Travel Flaming Gorge · Flaming Gorge, Utah looks nice Fish Lake - Ut…

What I learned this week Software Fun games site Business/Finance ALL SEASON SPORTS ETF… sports betting bet its an etf this time Fraud….

What I learned this week Software Classic DBA mosh an alt to ssh Business/Finance David_Ogilvy Interesting Links Screwworm Math/Stat Switchback experiments Switchback experiments solve the problem of network effects rendering traditional A/B tests impract…

What I learned this week Software The Transfer Station Economy, buying cheap tokens Business/Finance Interesting Links Porsche from the guy he helped put in prison Math/Stat Travel Other Crazy what corruption and incentives will lead to

What I learned this week Software Sandboxes Business/Finance Interesting Links Leader of Egypt Math/Stat Travel Other

What I learned this week Software Reverse Tabnabbing PI File System Business/Finance Telescope Ranching Interesting Links Drinking water from jacket Math/Stat Travel Mt Laguna looks nice Channel Islands National Park looks cool Hannagan Meadow Other Heavy…

What I learned this week Software Probably going to be hot garbage Business/Finance Interesting Links Conformal coating Diode Balsamic vinegar background Miner’s Breakfast Math/Stat Travel Other

What I learned this week Software Redshift with Graviton based instances, no spectrum scan cost any more Probably a DC2 -> RA3 situation based on price and performance… will need to elastic resize once > 4xl iss available Business/Finance Uh Oh more insid…

What I learned this week Software Git clone off a custom port: git clone ssh://git@mydomain.example:[port]/home/whatever git branch -a for remote branches Git tagging $0 is a way to invoke bash FFUF fast web fuzzer HTTP referer was misspelled in the origi…

After a few months of sporadic work, I finally finished the “Bandit” games on OvertheWire.

What I learned this week Software Mock data/api calls Slopsquatting the new bucket sniping Business/Finance “the de-rating from a premium multiple to a normal one eats every cent” Interesting Links On Bear spray’s effectiveness Japan bear problems solved?

How do I prove to you that I’m a person?

What I learned this week Software Jevons paradox “when technological improvements that increase the efficiency of a resource’s use lead to a rise, rather than a fall, in total consumption of that resource” “It is better to have a system omit certain anoma…

Wednesday I took my grandma out to dinner on Wednesday.

What I learned this week Software I like what Manus are trying to do here.

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 vid…

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

a The book This will serve to store notes/insights/thoughts about To Have and Have Not Quotes Notes This was brutal.

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’…

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

Hex Review It’s Easter Sunday.

What I learned this week Software Alan M.

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

a The book This will serve to store notes/insights/thoughts about Meltdown Quotes Notes I don’t have a lot to say about this one other than Credit Suisse did a ton of terrible shit for 100s of years and basically nobody got in trouble.

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 Software I did not know that appending a shell command with & runs it asynchronously.

Leaving AMXL after 5 years What I learned from ~5 years at Amazon all of which were spent at an organization called AMXL.

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.

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.”

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/Fina…

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…

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…

I’m jotting this down quick so apologies for run-ons and shit that doesn’t read well.

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

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 Lin…

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 is…

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…

An unbounded supply of Chess I used to play chess only on lichess everyday.

About Trip to Puerto Peñasco with Kenta, Kenta’s dad (John) and Tristan. 12/26: Played some poker the night before and got up around 7:20.

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 Goo…

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?

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.

Right now, circular financing and AI bubble takes are a dime a dozen.

The book This will serve to store notes/insights/thoughts about The Count of Monte Cristo Quotes Page 34 - A curse on those who fear wine: it’s because they have evil thoughts and they are afraid that wine will loosen their tongues.

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…

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.