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Writing about tech, life, and sundry.
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How to Grow Your Luck
Doing things publically brings you more luck. Have you prepared the soil?
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Tradr v0.12.1: A smoother onboarding, some Quality of Life fixes, and an in-app feedback tool
The hosted app moved to v0.12.1. Your first account is now your default everywhere, the sizing calculator prices with your broker's actual fees, and the guided setup is much better.
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Tradr is live
Tradr is open, and a free account is enough for most traders. Sign up, log a real trade, tell me what breaks.
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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.