Credit to Oliver Renick for the clever “laser eyes” bear meme, more on which below.
(more…)Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
What JUNK!
I’ve been working with home computers since 1979, and I’ve been creating products for them since I was a kid. I take pride in the polish I put into products. If something is a single pixel off, I see to it that it is fixed.
And yet multi-billion dollar corporations happily crank out utter shit and no one is the wiser. Take Coinbase (please!) Just look at this:
(more…)Charge It
Crypto Chart Enhancement!
For you crypto fans, I have a new feature to talk about in SlopeCharts.
In the crypto world, many of the trades are doing from one crypto to another, so the chart you’d want to look at is the cross-rate chart. In other words, if you are focused on buying Ethereum in Bitcoin terms (ETH/BTC), you could punch in a chart for $ETH/$BTC and get a ratio chart (assuming you are a premium member):
(more…)Barney Bloodied
One of the dumbest incredibly-highly-valued companies out there makes………MATTRESSES. I have mentioned Purple several times as a short; it’s starting to kick in nicely.
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