I’ve written for 20 years, 575 essays, and 4.4 million words and counting. You can read a quick intro or my best work, which I curate below.| www.kalzumeus.com
This is outside of my usual software-oriented beat, but sometimes people are wrong on the Internet. Most recently, people have been wrong about payment for order flow, an esoteric topic in the investing industry which seems vaguely unsavory to Hacker News commenters, Michael Lewis [0], etc.| www.kalzumeus.com
A friend of mine, who works in finance, asked me to explain what Tether was.| www.kalzumeus.com
Salary negotiation advice, mostly for engineers. Running total of raises negotiated due to this essay: $15M+.| www.kalzumeus.com
This is outside my usual brief, but one of my hobbies is that I used to ghostwrite letters to credit reporting agencies and banks. It is suddenly relevant after the Equifax breach, so I’m writing down what I know to help folks who might need this in the future.| www.kalzumeus.com
I described Tether in 2019 as “the internal accounting system for the largest fraud since Madoff.” This remains true. Earlier in 2022, in the wake of the Luna/USDT collapse and shockwaves hitting the industry, I wrote that their May 2022 attestation showed that, even if one believes the contents of the attestation, they again went insolvent and required recapitalization.| www.kalzumeus.com
Classic essay about how software routinely bumbles human names.| www.kalzumeus.com
If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them and this results in lots of unnecessary pain and suffering. This post aspires to be README.txt for your career as a young engineer. The goal is to make you happy, by filling in the gaps in your education regarding how the “real world” actually works. It took me about ten years and ...| www.kalzumeus.com