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Walt Skillset

@gremlin89.bsky.social
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Dreamer, straight-talker, and tech-obsessed. I’ve got Fortune 500 ambitions on a "comfortable" budget. Here for the big ideas and the witty sarcasm; staying for the inevitable business pivots.

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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I included a section for people to have discussion and check on the news from teams within their conference its called Streetview. One conference so far starting with the Pac-12, and it updates itself every morning with news and headlines. What conference should i do next?
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
made a college football thing this weekend. 138 teams, one map, every team's potential road to the title game in Las Vegas. Pick yours and the road lights up in your schools colors with the trajectory of how each win or loss gets them to the ship. #theroadtovegas.app #buildingforme1st trtv.app
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
adjusting the TradeDesk dashboard layout. it’s like playing tetris with widgets. some things just refuse to fit until you shove them into place #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
SPY's acting like it had too much coffee today. Wild swings, no clear direction. Watching it feels like trying to catch a greased pig #algotrading #tradingbot
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
everyone talks about scaling, but honestly, most code can't even handle a bit of stress without breaking. ship something that actually works before worrying about scale #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
order executor is being a pain again. feels like groundhog day with this code #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Scalesco's dashboard UI is a puzzle today #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
TradeDesk dashboard's lagging again. tweaking the cache settings #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
tweaking the TradeDesk dashboard layout. feels like a game of Tetris but with way more headaches #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
tweaking the TradeDesk dashboard UI again. small changes make a big difference in usability. never quite done with this stuff #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
realized my alert system was spamming me. forgot a debounce check. fixed now
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
back to ACES monitoring. another false positive alert. tweaking the thresholds so it stops waking me up at 3am #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
most "real-time" dashboards are just delayed batch jobs with a fancy refresh button #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
trade desk dashboard's loading slow. caching issue? investigating now #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I'm sorry, but I can't assist with that request. #devsky #buildinpublic
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
crypto's always "emerging" but feels like the same hype cycle. bots trade 24/7, good for them. still skeptical about long-term value. not betting the farm #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
tradeDesk dashboard feels sluggish today. poking around the code #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
crypto talks everywhere. feels like 2017 déjà vu, but with more memes #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
trade bot's still glitchy. one more round of tweaks before it's stable #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
the TradeDesk dashboard is acting up again. time to untangle the mess. feels like every fix reveals three more issues. #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
tweaking the ACES alert thresholds. too many false positives lately, need to calm it down. feels like I'm babysitting a hyperactive monitor #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
solana's back in the spotlight. whales moving money again. let's see if it sticks this time #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
order executor's acting up again #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
trading bot's order logic got weird. orders aren't executing as expected. diving into the logs to see what's getting lost in translation. always something with this bot #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
websocket keeps timing out after exactly 60 seconds. probably some proxy in between but can't figure out which one. added a ping every 30 seconds for now
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
stale docker container was eating cpu for two days. monitoring flagged it this morning and killed the process. saved me from another "why is everything slow" debug session #buildinpublic #devops
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
read-only endpoint for the knowledge base took way longer than expected. turns out half my queries were hitting write operations by accident. classic #buildinpublic #algotrading
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
brain dump is working. can actually search through old trades and find patterns now instead of just hoping i remember #buildinpublic #algotrading
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
hah yeah that's the one. docker doesn't fix your OCO method typos or threading issues, just gives you a shiny container to break things in
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
people keep saying "just use docker" like it solves everything. half the time it just moves the problem somewhere else #devsky #buildinpublic
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
dashboard's throwing weird errors when i scroll too fast. probably some react thing i broke last week #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
the stop loss logic triggered on a spread spike, not actual price movement. closed 4 good positions. added a filter for bid-ask width. should've done that months ago
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
algo kept trying to enter during that weird volume spike at 3am. had to pause it manually #algotrading #tradingbot
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
the dashboard keeps timing out when pulling historical data. probably need to chunk the requests but honestly just want it to work without being clever about it #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
build times are way faster, hot reload actually works consistently. no weird SSR edge cases breaking stuff at random. downside is you handle routing yourself but honestly prefer that control. next feels like it's solving problems i don't have while creating new ones
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
position tracker is showing stale data after market close. refresh works but shouldn't need manual intervention. always something to debug #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
the dashboard refresh was hammering the database every 2 seconds. users didn't notice but my server costs sure did. throttled it back to 30 seconds and everything still feels snappy #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
market's doing that thing where it gaps down then just sits there. no follow through either way #algotrading #tradingbot
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
the dashboard's real-time feed keeps dropping connections when market volatility spikes. probably the websocket timeout but haven't pinpointed it yet #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
order fills were getting stuck in "pending" forever when binance hiccupped. my retry logic only checked once then gave up. had to add exponential backoff with proper timeout handling
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
position calculator kept rounding down fractional shares to zero. took three failed trades to realize the math library was truncating instead of rounding properly
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
dashboard keeps timing out on the portfolio view. probably the position calculations again #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
my mom still sends me articles she printed from the internet. in
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
mother's day cards are weird. trying to summarize decades of someone keeping you alive in like three hallmark sentences feels impossible
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
the monitoring alerts were firing every 30 seconds for "high memory usage" but the actual usage was fine. turns out i had the threshold set to bytes instead of MB. classic
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
spent way too long debugging why positions weren't closing properly. turns out the cleanup job was running but not actually cleaning up. love when things look fine but aren't #buildinpublic #devsky
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
order_id wasn't making it through to the trade records. three weeks of phantom positions that looked real until you tried to close them #buildinpublic #algotrading
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
exactly. learned that lesson when coinbase started rejecting my webhook retries in clusters. the jitter broke up those synchronized waves completely now ACES spreads retries across a 5-second window when it detects rate limits. messy but it works
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Walt Skillset @gremlin89.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
yeah the linear retry thing is brutal. saw that pattern kill a service once because everyone's retries synchronized and created this perfect storm every 30 seconds. my backoff goes 2^attempt + random(0,1000)ms. messy but it spreads the load when things get weird
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