April 19, 2023
Discover how startup founders can harness the power of polarization, drawing inspiration from Musks's attention-grabbing tactics to thrive in today's fragmented attention economy.
March 18, 2023
A Gaussian Beam only has one point of maximum focus, but when it is brought the bear upon a single point it's power is it's full potential
February 10, 2023
A year and a half ago we started building a startup and I chose to use UUIDs as primary keys and it turned out to be such a good choice.
February 10, 2023
Some guidelines I wrote down to help introduce new engineers to how I want the Bounty team to operate and ship code for the business.
December 11, 2022
Thinking about modeling large organizations through the lens of a hidden markov model to get to a "yes" in the sales process.
September 21, 2022
Lessons learned, pain points, and my developing management philosophy.
August 14, 2022
Trying to define whole categories of software related to automating bureaucracy and why they are good businesses.
May 22, 2022
What does the AI oracle completion API have to say about the current state of things in the world?
May 17, 2022
Comparing some common sci-fi tropes to forces of decentralization that actually exist.
June 14, 2021
I talk about why it's a good idea to use a checklist with code reviews and how subjective PR sizes when it comes to code.
May 26, 2021
I talk about the last 5 years and next 5 years looking at it through the lens of the 1920s and 1930s.
April 07, 2021
I talk about how to buy into emerging technology trends by avoiding the hype cycles.
April 07, 2021
I explain how ultra long term trend following could work.
February 14, 2021
Examples of the Dark Forest idea of markets in both the stock market and in crypto markets.
December 12, 2020
At this point the possibilities diverge so wildly it really is quite fascinating.
December 04, 2020
I put a very simple buy the dip system live a few months ago against Alpaca to see what would happen.
June 28, 2020
For a while it seemed like everyday in March of 2020 there was a whitehouse press conference. This is an experiment building a system to help trade against this.
June 14, 2020
A crucial mistake is selling people something they need, not what they want. Wants are what people seek out to purchase.
June 14, 2020
Can you just buy every dip and sell every pop on some stocks?
May 26, 2020
I recently discovered you cannot narrow "any" type in typescript with a typeguard.
January 24, 2020
I recently started working on a sharepoint framework react site using typescript and I wanted to add Jest tests. Here is how to do it.
November 05, 2019
I talk about my experience of building a custom art commissions site using MERN stack in 2019.
August 27, 2018
I talk pros and cons of various systems of how to get your secrets deployed to prod running your server!
March 04, 2018
I accidentally do an experiment that reveals attention span dropping on youtube
February 20, 2018
I do some backtests with sector rebalancing and figure out if it is worth doing!
February 19, 2018
I break down some of the math of trading for a living to help me understand how to build a worthwhile trading system.
February 06, 2018
One week side projects I'm thinking of in February 2018.
February 06, 2018
My First Attempts at builiding a serious Systematic Trading Algorithm based on a long term trend following approach.
February 06, 2018
One week side projects I'm thinking of in February 2018.
November 19, 2017
I talk about how I used React Native in Android as a module that was part of a larger Android app
November 18, 2017
A full site build with React and Redux using "Create React App"
October 29, 2017
A full site build with React and Redux using "Create React App"
April 16, 2017
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.
March 04, 2017
When does it make sense to use object pools in Java? Are connection pools the only object pools you should use?
December 31, 2016
I discuss some of the 56 books I read during 2016
December 28, 2016
A summary of my attempts at algorithmic trading using various strategies on cryptocurrency exchanges.
December 26, 2016
Why I'm Shutting Down Trollboxarchive.com, some stats and some explanations
December 12, 2016
Applying the idea of a "premortem" to your side projects and opportunities at work
December 02, 2016
Is it possible to correlate bitcoin prices from chat logs on a bitcoin exchange?
December 01, 2016
I talk about what a hashed message authentication code is, and I give an example in javascript
October 11, 2016
A six month retrospective on how pair programming every day work has been
September 24, 2016
Why you should be using npm scripts instead of globally install javascript build tools
September 19, 2016
A quick overview on where to start in finding high quality clients
September 09, 2016
Why version control and especially git is important for new developers to learn.
August 26, 2016
Ideas on how to come up with ideas for software projects and products
August 16, 2016
top 5 es2015 features I think you will get the most benefit from.
August 07, 2016
I talk about scope of work, ballparking budget, and time constraints as the 3 things you need to discover immediately
July 03, 2016
Recently I did some experimenting with Web Workers and in-browser push notifications
June 10, 2016
A couple of ways to make npm install run a bit faster on your builds.
April 24, 2016
Thinking about writing a little E-Book for new developers.
April 23, 2016
what to do about wix, squarespace, weebly and whatever else.
February 02, 2016
some git commands to remove a borked local branch and check out a fresh copy from upstream
January 09, 2016
Wrapping console.log so that you can add timestamps, script names, whatever else to node logs.
January 09, 2016
I was working on a project with hundreds of globals right on the window object, and trying to convince them this was bad
January 03, 2016
An example of good thing I learned from "Secrets of a JavaScript ninja"
January 02, 2016
An annoying troubleshooting experience where I learned about ALSA
December 30, 2015
Stray semicolons in JavaScript and cause unexpected code execution
December 13, 2015
I made a pull request to Jasmine to add a feature to spies.
July 31, 2015
tl;dr - MongoDB does OR and doesn't order results by score by default
September 11, 2014
tl;dr - CSS "translate3d" is buggy on certain android versions
September 11, 2014
HTML5 gives you element.validity for numbers
January 22, 2014
Configuring Sphinx to pull data directly from MySQL tables.
December 19, 2013
Doing LDAP auth directly with Apache and PHP, its actually pretty easy
July 28, 2013
My experiments with buying a little 20x4 LCD screen to use with an arduino