02Lab · research & notes
Investigations, written down.
My notes from building things: what I tried, what broke and what I learned. These ones are more technical.
- Note
- A finished write-up.
- Experiment
- Running, with results still coming in.
- Draft
- Thinking out loud.
- Archived
- A closed investigation.
- When PowerShell quietly corrupts your source filesCharacters like ₦ and curly quotes turned into garbage after scripted file writes on Windows. Here is the cause, and a one-line fix that has held up since.Tooling · Lessons from buildingNote
- Building a latency experiment when the fast feeds are geo-blockedBinance and Bybit WebSockets are not reachable from Nigeria, so the prediction-market bot runs on CoinGecko. This entry asks what that does to a strategy built on speed.Trading systems · On-chainExperiment
- Why the bot bets half of what the formula saysNotes on choosing Half-Kelly sizing for a strategy whose edge is still a guess.Trading systems · RiskDraft