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Writing about tech, life, and sundry.
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Tradr goes live August 27
Tradr's hosted offering will go live this Thursday, August 27 for free. Sign up for the Tradr newsletter to be reminded.
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Release Announcement: Tradr v0.8.0 — Guided onboarding, working options lookups, and a /metrics endpoint
Tradr v0.8.0 adds a guided walkthrough with demo data, options contract lookups powered by your own Unusual Whales key, and an opt-in Prometheus /metrics endpoint for self-hosters.
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Release Announcement: spec-workflow-mcp v5.1.0 — Improved cross-session progress tracking
My spec-driven-development MCP server used to report the roadmap finished while three specs were still in flight. v5.1.0 makes the spec index name what to work on next.
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A New Season of Life and an Announcement
What I've been up to since I lost my job, and what I'm doing next.
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Installing Obsidian on WSL with a Windows GUI | Easy Setup
Run Obsidian's GUI natively on the Windows desktop while keeping your vault inside the WSL filesystem — install the Linux package and it just works.
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Importing Certificates in NVIDIA GPU Operator for Private Apt Repository (Ubuntu 20.04)
Two gotchas for getting the NVIDIA GPU Operator's driver container to trust a private apt repository: rename the cert to .crt, and split a chain into one cert per --from-file.
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Azure VM Provisioning Timeout/Failure (Black Screen Boot Diagnostics)
An Azure image builds an un-bootable VM when the Hyper-V generation is mismatched. Specify -HyperVGeneration V2 on New-AzImageConfig when your disks need it.
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Making Ethical Decisions in a Post-Modern Technological Landscape
An essay applying ASET's Code of Ethics to a real case — Facebook's 2014 emotional-contagion experiment — using Mason's framework for ethical decisions in technology.
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The Financial Crisis of 2008
A long-form course paper on the 2008 financial crisis: how money and mortgages work, what CDOs and credit default swaps are, and how human weakness — amplified by technology — produced the collapse.