A decade ago, Stack Overflow was where every CS engineer went to ask questions and get answers. It’s fascinating to see how, now that ChatGPT (and the like) make such places unnecessary, it has shrunk to nothingness.

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.
A decade ago, Stack Overflow was where every CS engineer went to ask questions and get answers. It’s fascinating to see how, now that ChatGPT (and the like) make such places unnecessary, it has shrunk to nothingness.

Here’s where homes are coming onto the market (or not):

Every so often, I get the urge to run barefoot through Slope’s wonderful economic database. Here are some of the more interesting charts I found, any one of which you can click for an easier-to-read, screen-filling version.

Just a few years back, “learn to code” was considered the surefire elixir to any concerns about employment. Judging from the number of job postings happening for software development, I think a bunch of kids were snookered.

I have tiptoed back into buying puts (as opposed to just shorting stocks), and one of the tiny number I’ve selected as my victim is DoorDash (DASH), against which I own June $270 puts. They are up 12% so far, and I’ve got great hopes for bigger gains. Below is the stock, shown with an increasingly long time horizon.
