A bit of background… The current branching strategy used in Komodo Core is somewhat informal. The idea is to formalize ideas so that everyone agrees on the procedures to follow, and those coming after us know what should be followed.…
I began a personal project a long time ago to provide connectivity to various cryptocurrency exchanges. I never got around to finishing it. It did however stay in my mind. And while working on other projects, I gathered knowledge of…
Arduino and the Arduino IDE are great products. They serve as an on-ramp (and a very good one) for many makers. You can do quite a bit of tinkering, and even build commercial products without leaving the Arduino ecosystem. I…
There are plenty of avenues to enjoy some good old-fashioned coding. Lately, I’ve been doing some embedded work, and found a reason to explore smart watches. It seems quite a community is building around watches and fitness bands. I purchased…
I have always enjoyed electronics as a spectator. It continues to fascinate me. But the maturing trend of IoT captures my imagination because it blends electronics and software. My career has mainly revolved around the major platforms. Windows, MacOS, Linux.…
I am researching open-source projects for marine weather radar. The weather radar hardware manufacturers are proprietary. I understand why, and I’m not against it. But I would like to have my data in one place if I can. To do…
I’m dreaming here. But if I were to build the ultimate framework for algorithmic trading, what would it look like? Purpose One purpose would be to concentrate more on the algorithm, and less on the mechanics that all strategies need.…
I have been battling an internal war. The question: In which format should data be stored in? Twenty years ago, the question was fairly simple. Much was moving from proprietary storage systems to relational database management systems. That was a…
I am very much a C++ person. I warmed up to the language as it was warring with C for programmers and popularity. Although I used neither for my “day job” ex/cept on rare occasions, I jumped at opportunities to…
I have been building out some algorithms that rely on detecting “consolidation”. Chartists know what that looks like, but the term by itself is extremely vague to a quant. What to do? I have often thought about the method used…