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Writing — Page 5
A mix of technical deep-dives, career reflections, and dispatches from the road.
financeAug 22, 2026· 4 min
Index Funds vs. Active Management: Reading the Scorecard Honestly
The SPIVA scorecards are the most-cited evidence in the passive-versus-active debate. Here is what they actually measure, why survivorship and persistence…
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obsidianAug 21, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian Hotkeys and the Command Palette: Building a Keyboard-First Vault
Most Obsidian friction is the round trip from keyboard to mouse and back. Here is how the command palette, a short list of hotkeys, and a little usage data…
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developmentAug 20, 2026· 4 min
Declarative Partial Updates: Out-of-Order HTML Streaming Without a Framework
Chrome 148 ships experimental support for filling HTML placeholders out of order and streaming markup into the DOM.
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financeAug 19, 2026· 4 min
How DeFi Lending Works: Health Factors, Rate Curves, and Liquidation Bots
On-chain lending replaces credit checks with collateral, loan officers with a utilization curve, and collections with bots.
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obsidianAug 18, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian Workspaces: Stop Rebuilding Your Layout Every Time You Switch Tasks
Workspaces is a core Obsidian plugin that saves your entire pane layout under a name and restores it in one command.
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developmentAug 17, 2026· 3 min
React's Activity Component: Hide UI Without Losing Its State
React 19.2's Activity component hides a subtree instead of unmounting it, so state, scroll position, and DOM survive the round trip.
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developmentAug 16, 2026· 3 min
revalidateTag vs updateTag: Next.js Split Cache Invalidation in Two
Next.js 16 gave cache invalidation two different functions instead of one, and the split maps to a real distinction: content that can lag versus content the…
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financeAug 15, 2026· 4 min
Position Sizing: The Trade Decision That Happens Before the Trade
Most trading education obsesses over entries and indicators. The arithmetic says how much you put on matters more than where you got in, and the math is…
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obsidianAug 14, 2026· 4 min
One Vault or Many? What Splitting an Obsidian Vault Actually Costs You
Splitting your Obsidian vault feels like tidying up, but a vault boundary is a hard wall your search, links, and queries cannot cross.
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