@the-albert.bsky.social
I love traditional financial systems. Love talking and thinking about exchanges, options & stocks. Coding mostly in Rust & Elixir.
Ask me about anything!
I code at UnusualWhales.
Ask me about anything!
I code at UnusualWhales.
To put the impact of CME's futures outage into perspective for the options market for SPX/SPXW spreads. Plotted the avg spread for the past month for the first 15min of trading.
December 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
To put the impact of CME's futures outage into perspective for the options market for SPX/SPXW spreads. Plotted the avg spread for the past month for the first 15min of trading.
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ReScript 12 is here!
A major step toward a leaner, faster, simpler toolchain.
This release refines the language and embraces ReScript’s own identity.
Blog: rescript-lang.org/blog/release...
Notes: github.com/rescript-lan...
Huge thanks to everyone who helped move ReScript forward.
A major step toward a leaner, faster, simpler toolchain.
This release refines the language and embraces ReScript’s own identity.
Blog: rescript-lang.org/blog/release...
Notes: github.com/rescript-lan...
Huge thanks to everyone who helped move ReScript forward.
Announcing ReScript 12 | ReScript Blog
ReScript 12 arrives with a redesigned build toolchain, a modular runtime, and a wave of ergonomic language features.
rescript-lang.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
ReScript 12 is here!
A major step toward a leaner, faster, simpler toolchain.
This release refines the language and embraces ReScript’s own identity.
Blog: rescript-lang.org/blog/release...
Notes: github.com/rescript-lan...
Huge thanks to everyone who helped move ReScript forward.
A major step toward a leaner, faster, simpler toolchain.
This release refines the language and embraces ReScript’s own identity.
Blog: rescript-lang.org/blog/release...
Notes: github.com/rescript-lan...
Huge thanks to everyone who helped move ReScript forward.
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Europe is falling short in its quest for global economic clout on.ft.com/43r8S8t | opinion
Europe is falling short in its quest for global economic clout
Brussels is struggling to adapt to a conflict-ridden world trading system
on.ft.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Europe is falling short in its quest for global economic clout on.ft.com/43r8S8t | opinion
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It's really not, bc private investors will tolerate vast amounts of authoritarianism/corruption (see: investment in 🇨🇳 etc. over the last 30 years) & bc baseline growth prospects in 🇪🇺/🇯🇵/etc. were far below 🇺🇸 in January 2025, & because there is nowhere else to go at scale:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
It is remarkable that the US stock market hasn't collapsed yet. Between the tariff shit, the racist immigration shit (bye bye joint ventures!), and the "hey, lets make fraud legal" movement, the long term prospects are super grim.
(Chinese companies generally report at least some financial information on a quarterly basis)
(Also this idea is terrible, getting rid of audited quarterly disclosures would absolutely raise the risk premium for the US equity market compared to peers around the world)
(Also this idea is terrible, getting rid of audited quarterly disclosures would absolutely raise the risk premium for the US equity market compared to peers around the world)
October 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
It's really not, bc private investors will tolerate vast amounts of authoritarianism/corruption (see: investment in 🇨🇳 etc. over the last 30 years) & bc baseline growth prospects in 🇪🇺/🇯🇵/etc. were far below 🇺🇸 in January 2025, & because there is nowhere else to go at scale:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Rust 1.90.0 has been released! ✨🦀
This release makes LLD the default linker on x86-64 linux-gnu and adds `cargo publish --workspace` to publish an entire workspace all at once!
Check out the blog post and release notes for more: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/18/R...
This release makes LLD the default linker on x86-64 linux-gnu and adds `cargo publish --workspace` to publish an entire workspace all at once!
Check out the blog post and release notes for more: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/18/R...
Announcing Rust 1.90.0 | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
blog.rust-lang.org
September 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Rust 1.90.0 has been released! ✨🦀
This release makes LLD the default linker on x86-64 linux-gnu and adds `cargo publish --workspace` to publish an entire workspace all at once!
Check out the blog post and release notes for more: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/18/R...
This release makes LLD the default linker on x86-64 linux-gnu and adds `cargo publish --workspace` to publish an entire workspace all at once!
Check out the blog post and release notes for more: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/18/R...
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🚀 We released version 0.3 of the DuckLake specification and the DuckDB ducklake extension today. It includes interoperability with Iceberg, support for geometry types and more.
Check the announcement blog for more details ducklake.select/2025/09/17/d...
Check the announcement blog for more details ducklake.select/2025/09/17/d...
September 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🚀 We released version 0.3 of the DuckLake specification and the DuckDB ducklake extension today. It includes interoperability with Iceberg, support for geometry types and more.
Check the announcement blog for more details ducklake.select/2025/09/17/d...
Check the announcement blog for more details ducklake.select/2025/09/17/d...
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Here's a link to a conversation earlier this week on links between geopolitics and FX & FI markets; the role of CBs; different patterns of real and financial spillover & impacts on Global South; & few other things I have been known to go on about. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvw_...
EXANTE Webinar ‘Beach Reads & Bond Yields’
YouTube video by EXANTE
www.youtube.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Here's a link to a conversation earlier this week on links between geopolitics and FX & FI markets; the role of CBs; different patterns of real and financial spillover & impacts on Global South; & few other things I have been known to go on about. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvw_...
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Happy new Rust! 🎆🦀
Rust 1.89.0 has been released!
This release brings you inferrred array length, new lints, u128/i128 in extern "C", NonZero, File::lock, many x86 intrinsics, and much more! ✨
Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/08/07/R...
Rust 1.89.0 has been released!
This release brings you inferrred array length, new lints, u128/i128 in extern "C", NonZero
Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/08/07/R...
Announcing Rust 1.89.0 | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
blog.rust-lang.org
August 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Happy new Rust! 🎆🦀
Rust 1.89.0 has been released!
This release brings you inferrred array length, new lints, u128/i128 in extern "C", NonZero, File::lock, many x86 intrinsics, and much more! ✨
Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/08/07/R...
Rust 1.89.0 has been released!
This release brings you inferrred array length, new lints, u128/i128 in extern "C", NonZero
Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/08/07/R...
I've debugged things you people wouldn't believe. Segmentation faults at 3 AM in production. I watched memory leaks cascade through codebases near forgotten APIs. I've traced race conditions through multithreaded nightmares.
All those late nights will be lost in time, like commits without messages.
All those late nights will be lost in time, like commits without messages.
July 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I've debugged things you people wouldn't believe. Segmentation faults at 3 AM in production. I watched memory leaks cascade through codebases near forgotten APIs. I've traced race conditions through multithreaded nightmares.
All those late nights will be lost in time, like commits without messages.
All those late nights will be lost in time, like commits without messages.
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"When "things just work" in Rust, remember that this is extraordinary — not automatic. That feeling is the product of countless volunteers contributing their expertise and spare time, building atop each other's work for years. I'm honored to be a part of that ecosystem"
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New blog post + cargo-semver-checks v0.42 is out ✨
I found some unexspected sharp edges in the `#[target_feature]` attribute. They are getting fixed (teamwork! 🤜🤛), and cargo-semver-checks now also has lints to save you from footguns!
predr.ag/blog/unsound...
I found some unexspected sharp edges in the `#[target_feature]` attribute. They are getting fixed (teamwork! 🤜🤛), and cargo-semver-checks now also has lints to save you from footguns!
predr.ag/blog/unsound...
Unsoundness and accidental features in the #[target_feature] attribute
Making Rust better for everyone while working on `cargo-semver-checks`
predr.ag
July 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
"When "things just work" in Rust, remember that this is extraordinary — not automatic. That feeling is the product of countless volunteers contributing their expertise and spare time, building atop each other's work for years. I'm honored to be a part of that ecosystem"
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Celebrating More Ocaml by John Whitington, now available from The Pragmatic Programmers!
🔗 Read more: medium.com/pragmatic...
📘 ebook: https://pragprog.com/titles/d-jwocaml
Bonus: OCaml from the Very Beginning ebook!
#ocaml #programming #pragprog #book
🔗 Read more: medium.com/pragmatic...
📘 ebook: https://pragprog.com/titles/d-jwocaml
Bonus: OCaml from the Very Beginning ebook!
#ocaml #programming #pragprog #book
June 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Celebrating More Ocaml by John Whitington, now available from The Pragmatic Programmers!
🔗 Read more: medium.com/pragmatic...
📘 ebook: https://pragprog.com/titles/d-jwocaml
Bonus: OCaml from the Very Beginning ebook!
#ocaml #programming #pragprog #book
🔗 Read more: medium.com/pragmatic...
📘 ebook: https://pragprog.com/titles/d-jwocaml
Bonus: OCaml from the Very Beginning ebook!
#ocaml #programming #pragprog #book
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Today we're launching DuckLake, an integrated data lake and catalog format powered by SQL. DuckLake unlocks next-generation data warehousing where compute is local, consistency central, and storage scales till infinity. ducklake is an open standard and we implemented it in the "ducklake" extension.
May 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Today we're launching DuckLake, an integrated data lake and catalog format powered by SQL. DuckLake unlocks next-generation data warehousing where compute is local, consistency central, and storage scales till infinity. ducklake is an open standard and we implemented it in the "ducklake" extension.
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ITS HAPPENING
Firefox 127 shipped today making it the first browser to support Temporal - the new API for working with Dates, times, timezones + durations
Firefox 127 shipped today making it the first browser to support Temporal - the new API for working with Dates, times, timezones + durations
May 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
ITS HAPPENING
Firefox 127 shipped today making it the first browser to support Temporal - the new API for working with Dates, times, timezones + durations
Firefox 127 shipped today making it the first browser to support Temporal - the new API for working with Dates, times, timezones + durations
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Go is what you get when the designers of a programming language are brave enough to ask the question “what if better things were *not* possible?”
May 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Go is what you get when the designers of a programming language are brave enough to ask the question “what if better things were *not* possible?”
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The next release of OCaml's package manager, opam, will have support for dependency management with Nix! ryan.freumh.org/opam-nix.html #nix #ocaml
Opam's Nix system dependency mechanism
Ryan Gibb
ryan.freumh.org
May 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The next release of OCaml's package manager, opam, will have support for dependency management with Nix! ryan.freumh.org/opam-nix.html #nix #ocaml
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this actually works way too well omg
![ghci> 1 < 2 < 3 :: Bool
True
ghci> 2 < 2 < 3 :: Bool
False
ghci> 1 < 2 < 2 :: Bool
False
ghci> foldl1 (<) [1,2,3] < 4 :: Bool
True
ghci> foldl1 (<) [1,4,3] < 4 :: Bool
False](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j7ri4agbraq6g3dfmyccxep2/bafkreie4axjnphutslj3jhzxpbfjnovyuf2hadex2be7fjwlotkvkmbjjy@jpeg)
May 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
this actually works way too well omg
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lmfao I just realized the actual file for the US-UK trade deal has "FINAL rev v2" at the end of the name like it's a high school group project written the night before it was due
May 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
lmfao I just realized the actual file for the US-UK trade deal has "FINAL rev v2" at the end of the name like it's a high school group project written the night before it was due
I discovered github.com/sauljabin/ka... today and I love it. Super cooooool
GitHub - sauljabin/kaskade: kaskade is a text user interface for kafka, which allows you to interact and consume topics from your terminal in style!
kaskade is a text user interface for kafka, which allows you to interact and consume topics from your terminal in style! - sauljabin/kaskade
github.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I discovered github.com/sauljabin/ka... today and I love it. Super cooooool
$INTC post 1D earnings move have def. been something. Currently at -6% within the expected move.
unusualwhales.com/stock/INTC/e...
@unusualwhales.bsky.social
unusualwhales.com/stock/INTC/e...
@unusualwhales.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
$INTC post 1D earnings move have def. been something. Currently at -6% within the expected move.
unusualwhales.com/stock/INTC/e...
@unusualwhales.bsky.social
unusualwhales.com/stock/INTC/e...
@unusualwhales.bsky.social
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I wrote something about how we're seeing the rise of the online "alpha male." This is someone who speaks in clipped imperatives, squeezes into tight suits, and performs for our feed. They present a vision of masculinity shaped by politics, tech, and 100 years of cultural history 🧵
April 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I wrote something about how we're seeing the rise of the online "alpha male." This is someone who speaks in clipped imperatives, squeezes into tight suits, and performs for our feed. They present a vision of masculinity shaped by politics, tech, and 100 years of cultural history 🧵
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🏎️ What’s better than a fast database? A lazy one.
ClickHouse’s new lazy materialization feature delays work until it’s absolutely needed, slashing runtimes by over 1,200×.
Curious yet? Read the deep dive here → buff.ly/9CiK99o
ClickHouse’s new lazy materialization feature delays work until it’s absolutely needed, slashing runtimes by over 1,200×.
Curious yet? Read the deep dive here → buff.ly/9CiK99o
April 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🏎️ What’s better than a fast database? A lazy one.
ClickHouse’s new lazy materialization feature delays work until it’s absolutely needed, slashing runtimes by over 1,200×.
Curious yet? Read the deep dive here → buff.ly/9CiK99o
ClickHouse’s new lazy materialization feature delays work until it’s absolutely needed, slashing runtimes by over 1,200×.
Curious yet? Read the deep dive here → buff.ly/9CiK99o
Mag7 with a high 30D implied moves. That is potentially lots of absolute market cap that can change in either direction that the market is pricing currently...
Check it out on @unusualwhales.bsky.social unusualwhales.com/market/maps
Check it out on @unusualwhales.bsky.social unusualwhales.com/market/maps
April 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Mag7 with a high 30D implied moves. That is potentially lots of absolute market cap that can change in either direction that the market is pricing currently...
Check it out on @unusualwhales.bsky.social unusualwhales.com/market/maps
Check it out on @unusualwhales.bsky.social unusualwhales.com/market/maps
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Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
wapo.st
April 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.
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We've shipped a new version of timely dataflow (crates.io/crates/timely) which removes some potentially quadratic behavior. Scopes and operators would take resources proportional to #inputs x #outputs, even with sparse interior connectivity. This is now down to linear in inputs + input-output paths.
crates.io: Rust Package Registry
crates.io
March 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
We've shipped a new version of timely dataflow (crates.io/crates/timely) which removes some potentially quadratic behavior. Scopes and operators would take resources proportional to #inputs x #outputs, even with sparse interior connectivity. This is now down to linear in inputs + input-output paths.