Capital Link Digital Forum 2021 — October 12–14There are two days left to register for the 13th Capital Link Maritime Forum. This event brings together some of the biggest names in…Oct 9, 20211Oct 9, 20211
What’s driving pandemic outcomes?A work-in-progress analysis covering vaccines, obesity, age, drug use, economic, and health outcomes in a curated selection of countries…Sep 12, 2021Sep 12, 2021
Shipping in the 2020s — Inflation, Infrastructure, and the Price of Steel.When I was a kid, my dad ran a metal shop. Out back, he had heaps and heaps of scrap steel. Pieces of machines, broken tractors, metal…Dec 18, 20201Dec 18, 20201
Automating an invite to a discord channelI’m working on a membership site where a private Discord channel is part of the required feature set. I wanted to be able to generate a…Sep 27, 20201Sep 27, 20201
How important is #IMO2020 to the tanker trade today?At one point it was very important. And I think it will be again.May 7, 20202May 7, 20202
#IMO2020: The big structural oil market change everyone is forgettingLast year everyone was waiting for a big moment in the oil and fuel markets: #IMO2020, a seemingly small change around the type of fuel…Apr 27, 2020Apr 27, 2020
What you should know about Andrew Yang’s plan to give every American $1000/monthHow would you like to receive $1,000 just for being over 18 and existing, no strings attached? That’s the cornerstone of Democratic…Jan 26, 2020Jan 26, 2020
Changing oil landscape could be a boon for crude carriers and complex refinersDisclosures and statements: I am long Teekay Tankers, Euronav, DHT, PBF Energy, and a basket of other crude shipping stocks. This article…Jan 10, 2020Jan 10, 2020
Tanker TCEs During #IMO2020 Switch DemystifiedIf you’ve been following the maritime industry’s #IMO2020 fuel transition to lower sulphur fuels, you know that some vessels who have…Dec 27, 2019Dec 27, 2019
ESG Investing and IMO 2020 — The Love Story, The OpportunityESG is an acronym for “Environmental”, “social” and “corporate governance”, the three central factors in measuring the sustainability and…Nov 22, 2019Nov 22, 2019
IMO2020 — Good for the planet, good for the global economy.This is a follow up to my previous post on #IMO2020, an environmental protection regulation change that sets new standards around the type…Oct 29, 2019Oct 29, 2019
IMO2020 — A cluster fuck of unknown unknownsIf you don’t work in international maritime or the petroleum industry, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of IMO2020. To put it…Oct 26, 2019Oct 26, 2019
Published inThe StartupHow to build a 3d terrain model from Google Earth data (and why you may not want to)I am developing some land in Panama (a technology campus for software people) and the architect I am working with asked if I could get him…Aug 8, 20191Aug 8, 20191
What if you really could live 100% on cryptoThere have been numerous articles and videos posted over the years, mostly by media outlets, on trying to live totally on crypto. The…Jul 12, 2019Jul 12, 2019
Four huge ways to minimize your tax burden as an American remote workerI began getting paid for remote web development work when I was just fourteen years old. While my classmates were reading Wuthering…Jul 8, 2019Jul 8, 2019
Taking back wordsNow, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad…Nov 11, 2018Nov 11, 2018
Write less codeSeveral years ago at a HackNashville event, I remember one of the best programmers in the room curiously showcasing what was basically a…Oct 24, 2018Oct 24, 2018
Freelance Software Development and MoneyFreelancing can be extremely rewarding. It can help you become more self reliant, learn to sell, negotiate, and handle finances, and can…Mar 26, 20162Mar 26, 20162
The NPM / kik debacle leaves the future of open source package management in question.There’s a really interesting thing happening in the Node community right now. Long story short, Azer Koçulu had some 250 packages on NPM…Mar 24, 20161Mar 24, 20161
Why I’m not staking my future on MeteorJS.TLDR: After about 3 weeks of using Meteor seriously (8 hours a day), I decided that, despite its benefits, it would be shortsighted, and…Oct 20, 201527Oct 20, 201527
