Aaron Decker (enjoyer of technology)

At this point the possibilities diverge so wildly it really is quite fascinating.

I put a very simple buy the dip system live a few months ago against Alpaca to see what would happen.

For a while it seemed like everyday in March of 2020 there was a White House press conference.

A crucial mistake is selling people something they need, not what they want.

Can you just buy every dip and sell every pop on some stocks?

I recently discovered you cannot narrow "any" type in typescript with a typeguard.

I recently started working on a sharepoint framework react site using typescript and I wanted to add Jest tests.

I talk about my experience of building a custom art commissions site using MERN stack in 2019.

I talk pros and cons of various systems of how to get your secrets deployed to prod running your server!

I accidentally do an experiment that reveals attention span dropping on youtube

I do some backtests with sector rebalancing and figure out if it is worth doing!

I break down some of the math of trading for a living to help me understand how to build a worthwhile trading system.

One week side projects I'm thinking of in February 2018.

My First Attempts at building a serious Systematic Trading Algorithm based on a long term trend following approach.

One week side projects I'm thinking of in February 2018.

I talk about how I used React Native in Android as a module that was part of a larger Android app

A full site build with React and Redux using "Create React App"

A full site build with React and Redux using "Create React App"

Setting up a new PI to capture packets.

Using chrome dev tools for node debugging

Submittal Extractor is a Saas application I have been building over the past 6 months with the help of Messer Construction Co. in Cincinnati OH.

When does it make sense to use object pools in Java?

Positive risk exposures - good black swans

I discuss some of the 56 books I read during 2016

A summary of my attempts at algorithmic trading using various strategies on cryptocurrency exchanges.

Why I'm Shutting Down Trollboxarchive.com, some stats and some explanations

Applying the idea of a "premortem" to your side projects and opportunities at work

Is it possible to correlate bitcoin prices from chat logs on a bitcoin exchange?

I talk about what a hashed message authentication code is, and I give an example in javascript

My thoughts on yarn vs npm after using yarn for a week.

A six month retrospective on how pair programming every day work has been

Why you should be using npm scripts instead of globally install javascript build tools

A quick overview on where to start in finding high quality clients

Why version control and especially git is important for new developers to learn.

Ideas on how to come up with ideas for software projects and products

top 5 es2015 features I think you will get the most benefit from.

I talk about scope of work, ballparking budget, and time constraints as the 3 things you need to discover immediately

Recently I did some experimenting with Web Workers and in-browser push notifications

A couple of ways to make npm install run a bit faster on your builds.

Thinking about writing a little E-Book for new developers.

what to do about wix, squarespace, weebly and whatever else.

some git commands to remove a borked local branch and check out a fresh copy from upstream

Wrapping console.log so that you can add timestamps, script names, whatever else to node logs.

I was working on a project with hundreds of globals right on the window object, and trying to convince them this was bad

An example of good thing I learned from "Secrets of a JavaScript ninja"

An annoying troubleshooting experience where I learned about ALSA

Stray semicolons in JavaScript and cause unexpected code execution

I made a pull request to Jasmine to add a feature to spies.

tl;dr - MongoDB does OR and doesn't order results by score by default

tl;dr - CSS "translate3d" is buggy on certain android versions