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Practical notes on agent workflows, trading-system instrumentation, and the web applications that make ideas usable.

August 17, 2026 · 7 min read

How I test trading ideas before trusting them

The trading ideas that cost me the most were the ones that looked like they worked. Here are the checks I now run on every idea, and two that nearly got through.

  • Research methodology
  • Quantitative finance
  • Statistics
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August 17, 2026 · 4 min read

Moving personal demos from Heroku to Vercel

I moved my portfolio demos from Heroku to Vercel to cut hosting from more than eighty dollars a month to about fifteen, and made sure every demo link still worked afterward.

  • Web development
  • Deployment
  • Operations
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