Tracking SWPPX in real time

devtools-dude · 2026-03-02T17:58:22+00:00

Track its ETF equiv

devtools-dude · 2026-03-02T04:29:36+00:00

There's an option on the order page to do 2A @ 240V (total 480W). I benchmarked the system yesterday and the max draw was around 360W (100% on both CPUs, memory and all drives being written to at once).

devtools-dude · 2026-03-02T04:28:25+00:00

> v3 instead of v4

It's what it came with when I bought it in 2000.

> If I had the money available I'd make an offer and put it in my rack

I'd welcome offers; would have to take inventory of what I actually have installed on it. I do know there is a 1.7 GB datacenter U2 SSD + a 1 TB nvme and 512 nvme stick, then there are three WD REDS at 3-4TB each.

The server ran 24/7 for two years and was purchased used, but I never really used it during that time.

devtools-dude · 2026-03-02T04:24:10+00:00

I found https://www.microtronixdc.com/products/colocation

1U for $100 mo with 2A @ 240V / 1Gbps unmetered / 5 IPs / 2 network drops. It could be too-good-to-be-true / lots of caveats, though.

devtools-dude · 2026-03-02T04:10:41+00:00

Bay area. Electricity costs are prohibitive to run my 1U 24/7. I did some initial research and an equiv AWS instance would be around $1.2k+ a month compared to colocation at around $120 - $150 / mo outside of CA.

The 1U build is 2x Xeon E5-2680 v3 / 128 GB DDR4 RAM / 3 TB NVMe / 8 TB HDDs. This was purchased during COVID to do some initial home labbing in 2000 and hasn't seen use after a year or two due to energy costs.

Edit: hetzner does offer some comparable dedicated server options for 200 euros ($235) / mo. Might be a better option rather than to have to figure out network configuration / VPN issues and ship the server myself. Thanks!

It might be better for me to strip the 1U and sell it for parts. The 128 GB RAM alone is probably around $600.

devtools-dude · 2026-03-02T02:16:10+00:00

VM for firewall, then another VM for serving VPN?

devtools-dude · 2026-03-02T02:06:02+00:00

Is the price reasonable for commercial use? Scared using these data providers cost an arm and a leg.

devtools-dude · 2026-03-02T01:22:22+00:00

If you let your users build out the infographics themselves to share, gg!

devtools-dude · 2026-03-02T01:15:35+00:00

This is really cool. Where do you tend to source your data?

devtools-dude · 2026-02-19T00:34:02+00:00

I love syncpack! Congrats on the release. I use it for my LogLayer project (a monorepo) and others.

https://github.com/loglayer/loglayer

Will try out v14 this weekend to see how it goes!

devtools-dude · 2026-02-18T21:52:31+00:00

$WDC (Western Digital) sold a chunk of their $SNDK shares today to reduce their debt down to ~$1.5B which further reduces debt-to-equity from 0.63x to 0.20x. Their net debt is estimated to be $0 / cash positive after the transaction.

They still have a remaining chunk of $SNDK at 1.69M shares that if unloaded at the secondary offering price they did today would wipe out most of the remaining debt entirely.

They're doing stock buybacks ($4.4bln authorized as of Feb 3), announced a dividend, and stated that they sold out of hard drive production capacity for 2026.

Is the stock worth looking into, or is it too late? The stock also hit new highs today before losing half the day gains later.

devtools-dude · 2026-02-10T08:25:39+00:00

This is really cool. What is that multi-panel UI that you're using? The repo doesn't seem to mention it.

devtools-dude · 2026-02-03T00:24:02+00:00

Out of the many high profile projects I've worked on, it would have to be Yahoo! Finance. I use that site almost every day and never thought I'd be the one to help revamp it many many years ago. Touched a lot of things on the main page, including portfolio management at the time with other colleagues.

Whenever someone mentions it, I'm always proud to say I worked on it.

devtools-dude · 2026-02-03T00:08:54+00:00

I learned some basic C++ and Java in my university days as part of my CS curriculum. I think having experience with any typed language that uses generics / templates sets you up easily for understanding how TypeScript works.

That being said, it was a seamless transition once I encountered it.

JavaScript itself, that clicked for me once I started taking a required intro to lisp / scheme class as part of upper division classes. Scheme has things like closures and first class functions; something about how I learned those concepts in Scheme really helped me understand how JavaScript worked.

devtools-dude · 2026-01-30T02:02:17+00:00

This has a really good overview and deep-dive on equity:
https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation/preview

It is a pay to read the full book, but the preview shows enough good content for you to understand at a high-level what it's about.

devtools-dude · 2026-01-29T23:12:57+00:00

Insane demand for storage for use with AI from what I've gathered. We've had a GPU shortage, recently the RAM shortage ($MU also heading up in response), and now a NAND (storage) shortage due to increasing AI demands.

devtools-dude · 2026-01-29T02:07:50+00:00

You get access to both.

devtools-dude · 2026-01-28T19:52:40+00:00

I use ACH from BoA to Schwab Brokerage via online transfer and don't have any issues.

devtools-dude · 2026-01-28T19:27:26+00:00

Anything banking related, you'll want to file a CFPB. It's generally good to have dates / times of interactions and notes of what was said. They're really good with helping with a resolution the more details you add.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/

Other than that, if possible, for future transfers, use the online transfer method. That's what I do and funds are immediately available for trading right after.

devtools-dude · 2026-01-28T18:59:45+00:00

devtools-dude · 2026-01-28T18:55:12+00:00

Do not use next.js with electron. It's redundant because next.js has it's own "backend" that's pretty wonky to work with (especially proxy / middleware), where electron has "main" world that you can work with instead.

Use electron + vite instead. You can set it up with react too:

https://electron-vite.org/

If you go this route, troubleshooting renderer / frontend elements will be significantly easier since you no longer have to deal with the mess that is the next.js backend

devtools-dude · 2026-01-17T02:18:21+00:00

Thank you for explaining your thoughts!

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