Journal
Cyberapper
Slow notes on markets, machines, and the craft of building things well.
2025
2024
- Cadenza design noteAn architecture sketch for a large trading engine: client, gateway, matching and risk layers joined by HTTP, WebSocket and FIX.
- THE MINDSET OF A WINNER | Kobe Bryant Champions AdviceLessons from Kobe Bryant’s competitiveness: play for first place, choose the people who push you, and leave nothing undone.
- Code of ConductThe rules Algo724 asks of everyone who works with us, adapted from the Django Software Foundation’s code of conduct.
- Our goal in 2024What Algo724 set out to build in 2024: four services, beginning with StellaLink, the event bus that connects the rest.
2023
- Standard Go Project LayoutThe community layout for Go projects, with notes on which directories earn their place and which a small codebase should skip.
- Ben Franklin: The Thirteen Necessary VirtuesFranklin’s thirteen virtues, from temperance to humility, each with a short Chinese gloss.
- 13 Advises from Sam AltmanSam Altman’s thirteen observations on outlier success, starting with the one that matters most: compound yourself.
- Top 25 Investing Quotes of All TimeTwenty-five lines from investors worth remembering, with a note on what each one asks of you in practice.
- 李嘉誠給年輕人的98條忠告李嘉誠給年輕人的九十八條忠告：關於勤奮、準備，以及謹慎與進取之間的平衡。
- Tim Cook delivers MIT’S 2017 commencement speechTim Cook to MIT’s class of 2017: hard problems, the search for big ideas, and why technology needs values to be worth building.
- Secret prompt to make your GPT from Sorry Maker to Problem KillerA short system prompt that stops a language model apologising and hedging, and makes it answer the question.
- A company is not a familyNetflix’s framing of a company as a professional sports team rather than a family, and why the distinction matters.
- Hello Algo724The first entry: a hello from Algo724.