General technical writing — architecture decisions, engineering problems, tools built to solve specific needs, and observations from running software in production.
Military Flight Tracker Live military aircraft on ADS-B — free, no sign-up. OPEN MILITARY FLIGHT TRACKER → Mil Flights — live board → What the feed looks like right now At the time of writing, 85 military-marked aircraft are broadcasting. The mix is telling about what military aviation actually does all day: 46 transports — […]
Quick answer: I recorded a week of raw trades from MEXC and Gate.io — 72.9 million prints across the pairs my collectors track — and compared the two tapes pair-by-pair. The exchanges are not interchangeable: the same asset can carry a manufactured fingerprint on one venue and a normal one on the other, volume for […]
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I recorded 55.7 million trades on MEXC in one week. One pair traded 803,702 times — and not a single trade exceeded $297. What a manufactured market looks like in raw tape, the three tests that expose it, and the SQL to check any pair yourself.
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SatPI on the Vu+ Duo 4K SE used only part of the FBC tuner bank, DiSEqC failed and DVBViewer delivered no packets. The real fix on bcm7335/NEXUS — measured, tested, reboot-verified.
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ETH Gas Live Tracker Live gas price, tiers and USD cost — free, no sign-up. OPEN THE TRACKER → If you’ve lost money to an unexpected gas spike on Uniswap or had a transaction stall in the mempool, you already understand the problem. Ethereum gas fees are not stable — they move block by block, […]
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MEXC Analytics Dashboard Explore live buy/sell volume and order flow — free. OPEN MEXC ANALYTICS DASHBOARD → At a glance: The buy/sell volume ratio divides total buy volume by total sell volume over a given window. On MEXC spot pairs, a ratio above 1.5 indicates buyers are controlling price direction; below 0.7 means sellers dominate. […]
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MEXC Order Flow Analytics Live order flow, volume and trade analytics — free. OPEN MEXC ORDER FLOW ANALYTICS → What this does: This dashboard surfaces three data points the standard MEXC chart does not show — net USDT flow (aggressive buys minus aggressive sells, updated per trade), trade size segmentation across three tiers (<$10, $10–$100, […]
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Dynex Large Transaction Monitor Follow large DNX transfers in real time — free. OPEN DYNEX LARGE TRANSACTION MONITOR → Quick answer: The Dynex Large Transaction Monitor filters the Dynex blockchain to transactions of 5,000 DNX or more and streams new ones within 2 seconds of confirmation — the official block explorer shows everything, this shows […]
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Quick answer: wsl --export Ubuntu C:WSL-Backupsubuntu-backup.tar creates a full snapshot of your WSL2 distribution — every file, package, SSH key, and config. A minimal Ubuntu with development tools exports to 500 MB–1 GB in 1–5 minutes. Restore with wsl --import Ubuntu C:WSLUbuntu C:WSL-Backupsubuntu-backup.tar. After any import, WSL2 defaults to logging in as root — fix […]
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Quick answer: ModuleNotFoundError almost always means the package was installed into a different Python environment than the one running your script — not that it is missing from the system. Always install with python3 -m pip install, never bare pip. If pip reports success but the error persists: run python3 -m pip show <package>, note […]
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Quick answer: On Windows 10 build 20H1 (19041+) and all Windows 11 versions: open PowerShell as Administrator, run wsl --install, restart, then create a Linux username — the whole process takes under 5 minutes. On older Windows 10 builds 18362–19040: enable two Windows features via dism.exe, download the WSL2 kernel update from aka.ms/wsl2kernel, run […]
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0xDNX DHIP v2 Richlist Explore wrapped Dynex holder distribution — free. OPEN 0XDNX DHIP V2 RICHLIST → Quick answer: 0xDNX is an ERC-20 token on Ethereum representing DNX locked in the Dynex Holder Incentive Program (DHIP). This richlist shows every holder’s rank, exact balance, and percentage of total supply in real time — the percentage-of-supply […]
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Quick answer: On Ubuntu 22.04/24.04 with ext4 or XFS, create an 8 GB swap file in 5 commands: dd to allocate, chmod 600, mkswap, swapon, then add one line to /etc/fstab to survive reboots. On ZFS (OpenZFS 2.1+), create a dedicated zvol with primarycache=metadata and logbias=throughput — without these two parameters, heavy swap activity evicts […]
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Quick answer: The fastest WSL file transfer method depends on what you are moving — File Explorer works for one-off files, cp for single copies, rsync -avP for directories (resumes interrupted transfers, skips unchanged files), and tar -czf for large archives going to Windows. Cross-filesystem transfers between /mnt/c/ and /home/ run at 200–500 MB/s on […]
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