Archives for Janis Lesinskis' Blog
- Thu 21 September 2023
- You don't have all the time in the world
- Tue 19 September 2023
- End of the golden era of internet searching
- Fri 01 September 2023
- Spinning rust drives
- Wed 30 August 2023
- Weight gain goal
- Sat 13 May 2023
- Gold hits record high in USD and closes a week above 2000 USD/ounce
- Mon 01 May 2023
- Dealing with Shopify page bloat
- Fri 21 April 2023
- Bud light boycott
- Tue 18 April 2023
- Prime marks and typography
- Tue 11 April 2023
- Weighted average lease expiry
- Wed 22 March 2023
- Online chess hiatus
- Wed 22 March 2023
- Another reason to avoid dating apps
- Mon 20 March 2023
- Glycosphate and the breakdown of discourse
- Mon 20 March 2023
- Determinism in research code
- Mon 20 March 2023
- Exit liquidity shills
- Sun 19 March 2023
- Collateral crisis psychology
- Sun 19 March 2023
- Luna a modern case of hyperinflation
- Sat 18 March 2023
- Bags of rocks at the LME warehouses
- Tue 14 March 2023
- How cheaper computational power has changed banking
- Sun 12 March 2023
- 2023 Avalon Airshow
- Sat 04 March 2023
- The markets for metals
- Fri 03 March 2023
- A useful postgres explain tool
- Fri 03 March 2023
- What is a commodity
- Sat 18 February 2023
- EBDITA and accounting games
- Sat 18 February 2023
- Mindat.org is amazing!
- Sat 18 February 2023
- Central bank interventions and price discovery
- Thu 16 February 2023
- I'll be talking about failure demand tonight
- Wed 15 February 2023
- What makes metals valuable
- Mon 13 February 2023
- Foundational chemistry ideas needed to understand metals
- Mon 13 February 2023
- What is a metal
- Sun 12 February 2023
- Functools cached_property
- Sun 12 February 2023
- Metals series introduction
- Mon 26 December 2022
- Looking back at the RPA hype cycle
- Sat 03 December 2022
- FTX and madoff, simlarities and differences
- Sat 03 December 2022
- pdfsizeopt
- Mon 28 November 2022
- The QR code restaurant experience
- Sun 13 November 2022
- The fall of FTX
- Wed 09 November 2022
- Demand destruction anecdotes
- Mon 07 November 2022
- The 2006 debasement of NZ coinage
- Mon 19 September 2022
- I quit Twitter
- Sat 10 September 2022
- Expensive lettuce and cheap sushi
- Sat 10 September 2022
- Violence in 2022
- Fri 09 September 2022
- Some predictions for the upcoming era
- Thu 08 September 2022
- GameStop short squeeze part 3
- Mon 08 August 2022
- Setting the ssh key for a git clone
- Wed 06 July 2022
- The death of the six PM news
- Tue 31 May 2022
- Practical Pylint usage
- Mon 30 May 2022
- The myth of the unbalanced government budget
- Sun 29 May 2022
- Crypto crash update May 2022
- Sat 21 May 2022
- Crypto's Lehman moment
- Wed 18 May 2022
- Where is your line in the sand?
- Mon 16 May 2022
- Economic sanctions and vodka bans
- Sun 15 May 2022
- Why I stopped using Ebay to sell things
- Sat 02 April 2022
- Daylight savings ready to wreck my sleep again!
- Wed 30 March 2022
- Oscars and CMBS
- Wed 02 March 2022
- Russia-Ukraine conflict crypto grifting
- Mon 28 February 2022
- Bastiat on legal systems and morality
- Mon 28 February 2022
- End of another aviation era - the Antonov 225
- Mon 21 February 2022
- Debugging an issue with Pelican
- Sun 20 February 2022
- Hot takes for clearing the Ambassador bridge
- Thu 17 February 2022
- My bank workshop experience
- Sat 12 February 2022
- The limits "no code" solutions
- Mon 24 January 2022
- That annoying Matt Damon crypto advertisement
- Thu 13 January 2022
- Rapid antigen test profiteering
- Tue 11 January 2022
- Omicrons extreme transmissibility combined with far milder symptoms is forcing policy changes
- Wed 05 January 2022
- Transitory inflation means permanent purchasing power reduction
- Sun 02 January 2022
- Engineered timber
- Sat 11 December 2021
- Where is money created
- Mon 29 November 2021
- A change in the common knowledge in the markets - last weekend of November
- Sat 27 November 2021
- Learning from history
- Thu 25 November 2021
- Bank bail ins
- Thu 25 November 2021
- Problems with Celsius
- Sat 06 November 2021
- 2021 crypto ponzi schemes
- Wed 03 November 2021
- What a difference a few years makes in crypto
- Sat 30 October 2021
- Why is so much financial advice bullshit
- Fri 29 October 2021
- Why do stable coins matter
- Thu 28 October 2021
- Futures markets lower prices, both in good and bad ways
- Fri 22 October 2021
- Is this the end of Melbourne's COVID lockdowns?
- Sun 03 October 2021
- I don't like daylight savings
- Fri 01 October 2021
- Meanwhile over on the VIX...
- Fri 01 October 2021
- V shaped lies
- Thu 30 September 2021
- "Maximum" salaries
- Wed 22 September 2021
- 2021 September 22 Melbourne earthquake
- Tue 21 September 2021
- Fast things happen slowly then quickly
- Sun 19 September 2021
- Finally getting around to publishing some monetary policy articles
- Wed 15 September 2021
- 13 years since the failure of Lehman Brothers
- Tue 14 September 2021
- Getting CORS to work with Flask
- Sun 05 September 2021
- Another reason why piping the outputs of curl into bash is a security risk
- Sun 05 September 2021
- Why things have been quiet here lately
- Tue 31 August 2021
- Type annotations in Python 3.7
- Wed 11 August 2021
- Numpy and mypy type checking
- Tue 10 August 2021
- SQLAlchemy and mypy type checking
- Sun 18 July 2021
- Beware of Python assertions in production code
- Fri 16 July 2021
- Sentinel objects and mypy type checking
- Mon 05 July 2021
- Javascript support in this blog
- Sun 04 July 2021
- 2021 mid year update
- Thu 10 June 2021
- Australian open tennis 2021
- Wed 09 June 2021
- WordPress enumerations
- Wed 02 June 2021
- Hard rubbish day 2021
- Tue 01 June 2021
- Geoclue and other annoyances
- Sun 16 May 2021
- Politics of unproductive debt
- Thu 13 May 2021
- PFOF and Bernie Madoff
- Thu 13 May 2021
- The Eddie Murphy trading rule
- Mon 29 March 2021
- std::cout and uint8_t
- Sun 28 March 2021
- JIT logistics and tail risks
- Fri 26 March 2021
- The fmt library
- Thu 25 March 2021
- id est
- Tue 23 March 2021
- Backup of Quora content
- Mon 22 March 2021
- Deleting my Quora account
- Sat 13 March 2021
- Why isn't version control on the curriculum
- Thu 11 March 2021
- How wide are the underlying data types for Python integers
- Wed 10 March 2021
- The state of C++ education in 2021
- Tue 09 March 2021
- GameStop short squeeze part 2
- Sat 06 March 2021
- Vending machine controller test platform
- Fri 26 February 2021
- Legacy networking protocols
- Wed 24 February 2021
- What are the markets smoking?
- Wed 24 February 2021
- The calm before the commodities end of month rollover storm
- Sun 31 January 2021
- TIL a precise definition of eurodollars
- Sun 31 January 2021
- The pandemic of mindless contactless payments
- Sat 30 January 2021
- A quick introduction to the mechanism of stock short selling
- Sun 10 January 2021
- Knowing when to give up on legacy projects
- Sat 09 January 2021
- What are "no code" solutions?
- Sun 03 January 2021
- Dependency management in code files is not great
- Fri 01 January 2021
- 2020 is over!
- Wed 30 December 2020
- Financial spam emails ratio
- Wed 16 December 2020
- Who owns bank deposits?
- Mon 14 December 2020
- Nosocomial
- Wed 09 December 2020
- Australia desperately needs to start learning from others about covid
- Tue 08 December 2020
- 2020 collectables
- Fri 04 December 2020
- I've been asked to make a list of reading suggestions
- Wed 02 December 2020
- Why price impacts from Quantitative Easing can be delayed
- Sat 21 November 2020
- The Expensify election email
- Thu 19 November 2020
- Spotting financialization when looking for work
- Tue 17 November 2020
- The USA presidential election process
- Sun 15 November 2020
- This site now has a sitemap.xml file
- Thu 12 November 2020
- Solar panels and car sales, a financialization story
- Sun 08 November 2020
- Please stop making arbitrary password restrictions
- Wed 04 November 2020
- 2020 USA election
- Mon 02 November 2020
- Slack capacity and food supply chains
- Thu 15 October 2020
- Good developers care about their tools
- Fri 09 October 2020
- The story of Lasseters reef
- Wed 07 October 2020
- Making the post date more obvious
- Thu 01 October 2020
- Impacts of a dependence on backpackers and other foreigners on farm labour during a crisis
- Wed 30 September 2020
- WeGrow
- Sun 27 September 2020
- Is this blog now popular enough to be plagiarized from?
- Sat 26 September 2020
- Margin investing is psychologically corrosive
- Fri 25 September 2020
- Canned audience sounds during the pandemic
- Wed 23 September 2020
- Please don't exclusively use Twitter for communicating important announcements
- Wed 16 September 2020
- Why can't we house the homeless?
- Fri 11 September 2020
- The decline of the average level of experience in the software industry
- Wed 09 September 2020
- What negative prices look like
- Tue 08 September 2020
- Fake comment discussion scam
- Fri 04 September 2020
- Calling the top of the NASDAQ rally
- Tue 18 August 2020
- Default parameters and sentinel objects
- Wed 12 August 2020
- Could we see geographical divergence in Australian culture?
- Thu 06 August 2020
- Gold breaks 2000 USD/ounce
- Sun 02 August 2020
- A bitcoin long squeeze
- Sun 02 August 2020
- The stonks market
- Sat 01 August 2020
- End of another Australian airline era
- Thu 30 July 2020
- The Kodak stockmarket moment
- Mon 27 July 2020
- Today I learned the real reason why there's reeding on the sides of coins
- Sun 26 July 2020
- What is this thing called science
- Thu 23 July 2020
- The Chatham House Rule
- Tue 21 July 2020
- The future of automation products
- Tue 21 July 2020
- The great RPA rebranding
- Mon 20 July 2020
- Automation has a narrow window of recognition
- Sun 19 July 2020
- History of the automation industry
- Tue 14 July 2020
- Today I learned about poaceae
- Sun 12 July 2020
- Fixing the bug with the series sort order
- Sun 12 July 2020
- Natural sorting and pelican series
- Sun 12 July 2020
- I'm freezing new long form articles for a while
- Sat 11 July 2020
- Cache invalidation and UX
- Sat 11 July 2020
- A handy git command
- Sat 11 July 2020
- Python's data model and intuitive operators
- Thu 09 July 2020
- Today I learned a new word - disinflation
- Thu 09 July 2020
- Creating a topo map - day 10
- Mon 06 July 2020
- Creating a topo map - day 9
- Sat 04 July 2020
- Creating a topo map - day 8
- Sat 04 July 2020
- Trading card games and competitive play
- Thu 02 July 2020
- Creating a topo map - day 7
- Wed 01 July 2020
- Creating a topo map - day 6
- Tue 30 June 2020
- Creating a topo map - day 5
- Thu 25 June 2020
- Why I'm not a Dropbox customer anymore
- Wed 24 June 2020
- Creating a topo map - day 4
- Sun 21 June 2020
- Git preview for a single file?
- Sat 20 June 2020
- Initial bankruptcy offering
- Sat 13 June 2020
- Templated email... almost
- Thu 11 June 2020
- Creating a topo map - day 3
- Wed 10 June 2020
- Creating a topo map - day 2
- Tue 09 June 2020
- The new LinkedIn look and feel
- Tue 09 June 2020
- Creating a topo map - day 1
- Tue 09 June 2020
- Creating a topo map - intro
- Mon 08 June 2020
- PHP turns 25
- Tue 02 June 2020
- The MIT licence is community hostile
- Tue 02 June 2020
- Today I learned a new word - Gerontocracy
- Mon 01 June 2020
- Death during the COVID19 pandemic
- Sat 23 May 2020
- Personal impact of COVID19
- Mon 18 May 2020
- Common sense
- Tue 12 May 2020
- PyPi web API
- Mon 11 May 2020
- Updating your setup.py files to the newer format
- Sun 10 May 2020
- Stockfish vs AlphaZero
- Tue 05 May 2020
- Demand shocks and toilet paper
- Sun 03 May 2020
- Air quality
- Sat 02 May 2020
- End of an Australian airline era
- Wed 29 April 2020
- Number pyramid problem
- Mon 27 April 2020
- Maker vs manager schedules
- Tue 21 April 2020
- Creating your own user events in pygame
- Mon 20 April 2020
- Unicode whitespaces in Python
- Thu 16 April 2020
- The HTML abbreviation tag
- Thu 16 April 2020
- Finding out what a python script imports
- Tue 14 April 2020
- Pylint false positives with C extensions
- Thu 09 April 2020
- Have we reached peak Python?
- Sun 05 April 2020
- Software workloads in the COVID19 world
- Sat 28 March 2020
- Stringly typed functions
- Thu 26 March 2020
- Platinum status quarantine
- Wed 25 March 2020
- LaTeX support on this blog
- Tue 24 March 2020
- One percent a day
- Mon 23 March 2020
- Daily writing goal
- Sun 22 March 2020
- Preparing for a break from playing billiards
- Sat 29 February 2020
- Happy leap day!
- Mon 17 February 2020
- What causes Pylint no-member false positives and how to deal with this
- Mon 27 January 2020
- Sorting IP addresses in Python
- Tue 07 January 2020
- Myriad
- Wed 25 December 2019
- Page requests to the metal - Backend web framework
- Mon 23 December 2019
- Build system options in 2019
- Thu 19 December 2019
- RAM usage 50 years after Apollo
- Tue 17 December 2019
- Different techniques for debugging code
- Thu 12 December 2019
- Finding the versions of imported modules in Python code
- Mon 25 November 2019
- Page requests to the metal - Backend implementation
- Mon 25 November 2019
- Page requests to the metal - Backend - What happens on the server
- Mon 25 November 2019
- Page requests to the metal - frontend
- Mon 25 November 2019
- Page requests to the metal - hardware level
- Mon 25 November 2019
- Page requests to the metal - introduction
- Mon 25 November 2019
- Page requests to the metal - Network stack - From frontend to backend
- Sat 23 November 2019
- Debloating
- Sun 03 November 2019
- Running pip as a Python module
- Sat 05 October 2019
- Daylight savings transition tonight
- Tue 01 October 2019
- Falsehoods people believe about Australian time zones
- Mon 30 September 2019
- Why I now hesitate to use TeX
- Sun 29 September 2019
- How important are portfolios to developers
- Sun 04 August 2019
- Various ipsum text examples
- Fri 02 August 2019
- Using the Python markdown library
- Wed 31 July 2019
- Representing keyboard shortcuts
- Sun 21 July 2019
- Different ways to drop into an interactive python shell
- Wed 17 July 2019
- Modification date information matters
- Wed 03 July 2019
- Forwards compatibility with Python generators
- Fri 28 June 2019
- A day in the life of a package maintainer
- Thu 27 June 2019
- Deprecating module level variables
- Tue 25 June 2019
- MDB and vending machines
- Tue 25 June 2019
- Forcing connections to be HTTPS only
- Mon 24 June 2019
- Site redesign
- Wed 19 June 2019
- Backend update
- Sun 05 May 2019
- PyCon USA 2019 poster session poster
- Wed 01 May 2019
- PyCon USA 2019 coming up!
- Thu 11 April 2019
- Getting Altair to render inline in Jupyter
- Fri 08 February 2019
- Girls In Tech San Francisco workshop
- Mon 12 November 2018
- Pair programming with beginners
- Sat 01 September 2018
- PyCon Australia 2018
- Fri 20 July 2018
- A couple of questions about mypy
- Sat 14 July 2018
- Python's __hash__ function is not a cryptographic hash
- Sat 23 June 2018
- Limiting the runtime of Python unit tests
- Sun 27 May 2018
- Pytest fixtures with Flask
- Thu 24 May 2018
- Renaming Git branches
- Fri 11 May 2018
- Moving commits from one repository to another.
- Mon 07 May 2018
- Enforcing foreign key constraints with SQLite
- Sun 22 April 2018
- Python self references
- Wed 14 February 2018
- TIL: Install options for pip in requirements.txt
- Fri 09 February 2018
- TIL: Python import machinery details
- Tue 06 February 2018
- Logging uncaught exceptions in Python applications
- Sun 24 December 2017
- TIL: Python hashing implementation details
- Sat 09 December 2017
- 2017 tech thoughts
- Fri 25 August 2017
- Interfacing Python with C or C++
- Tue 11 October 2016
- Getting the MMAP array library on PyPi
- Wed 05 October 2016
- CompCon 2016
- Sun 25 September 2016
- Generating python bindings from C++11 with pybind11
- Sun 25 September 2016
- Deprecation warnings in python
- Sat 24 September 2016
- Which techniques help us be more productive?
- Fri 23 September 2016
- Testing for exceptions with Jasmine
- Tue 16 August 2016
- PyCon Australia 2016
- Sun 06 December 2015
- Using LaTeX for fast document generation
- Mon 19 October 2015
- Python's comprehensions syntax for java developers
- Fri 12 June 2015
- Virtualenv ubuntu
- Sun 28 December 2014
- Django inheritance
- Sun 21 December 2014
- Using Travis CI with Django
- Sun 24 August 2014
- Booleans in Django templates
- Tue 05 August 2014
- Using virtualenvwrapper with Fabric
- Fri 18 July 2014
- Code repair 2: Fibonacci and standard deviations homework (part 1)
- Fri 18 July 2014
- Code repair 2: Fibonacci and standard deviations homework (part 2)
- Sun 06 July 2014
- Lessons learned from my first attempt at making a footbag database website
- Mon 16 June 2014
- Useful linux environment setup info
- Mon 26 May 2014
- Pelican image format issues
- Sun 25 May 2014
- Code repair 1: the problem with rand()
- Sun 25 May 2014
- Code repair series introduction
- Sat 24 May 2014
- Setting up Pelican on PythonAnywhere
- Mon 19 May 2014
- What am I doing with my life?
- Sat 17 May 2014
- A c++ project organization trick
- Wed 14 May 2014
- Nearly disastrous mistake
- Mon 12 May 2014
- Aiming billiards shots
- Fri 02 May 2014
- Using git without an internet connection
- Sun 27 April 2014
- Creating an effective Python web development environment
- Tue 22 April 2014
- First post