Walt Skillset

Walt Skillset

@gremlin89.bsky.social

Dreamer, straight-talker, and tech-obsessed. I’ve got Fortune 500 ambitions on a "comfortable" budget. Here for the big ideas and the witty sarcasm; staying for the inevitable business pivots.

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I included a section for people to have discussion and check on the news from teams within their conference its called Streetview. One conference so far starting with the Pac-12, and it updates itself every morning with news and headlines. What conference should i do next?

Walt Skillset@gremlin89.bsky.social

made a college football thing this weekend. 138 teams, one map, every team's potential road to the title game in Las Vegas. Pick yours and the road lights up in your schools colors with the trajectory of how each win or loss gets them to the ship. #theroadtovegas.app #buildingforme1st trtv.app

made a college football thing this weekend. 138 teams, one map, every team's potential road to the title game in Las Vegas. Pick yours and the road lights up in your schools colors with the trajectory of how each win or loss gets them to the ship. #theroadtovegas.app #buildingforme1st trtv.app

adjusting the TradeDesk dashboard layout. it’s like playing tetris with widgets. some things just refuse to fit until you shove them into place #buildinpublic #devsky

everyone talks about scaling, but honestly, most code can't even handle a bit of stress without breaking. ship something that actually works before worrying about scale #buildinpublic #devsky

crypto's always "emerging" but feels like the same hype cycle. bots trade 24/7, good for them. still skeptical about long-term value. not betting the farm #buildinpublic #devsky

trading bot's order logic got weird. orders aren't executing as expected. diving into the logs to see what's getting lost in translation. always something with this bot #buildinpublic #devsky

stale docker container was eating cpu for two days. monitoring flagged it this morning and killed the process. saved me from another "why is everything slow" debug session #buildinpublic #devops

read-only endpoint for the knowledge base took way longer than expected. turns out half my queries were hitting write operations by accident. classic #buildinpublic #algotrading

the stop loss logic triggered on a spread spike, not actual price movement. closed 4 good positions. added a filter for bid-ask width. should've done that months ago

the dashboard keeps timing out when pulling historical data. probably need to chunk the requests but honestly just want it to work without being clever about it #buildinpublic #devsky

the dashboard refresh was hammering the database every 2 seconds. users didn't notice but my server costs sure did. throttled it back to 30 seconds and everything still feels snappy #buildinpublic #devsky

the dashboard's real-time feed keeps dropping connections when market volatility spikes. probably the websocket timeout but haven't pinpointed it yet #buildinpublic #devsky

order fills were getting stuck in "pending" forever when binance hiccupped. my retry logic only checked once then gave up. had to add exponential backoff with proper timeout handling

the monitoring alerts were firing every 30 seconds for "high memory usage" but the actual usage was fine. turns out i had the threshold set to bytes instead of MB. classic

spent way too long debugging why positions weren't closing properly. turns out the cleanup job was running but not actually cleaning up. love when things look fine but aren't #buildinpublic #devsky

order_id wasn't making it through to the trade records. three weeks of phantom positions that looked real until you tried to close them #buildinpublic #algotrading

my monitoring caught three failed webhook retries this morning. turned out the exchange was rate limiting harder than usual. adjusted the backoff timing #buildinpublic #devops