👋 Hey there! I'm TJ. I write about data products, technology, software, and economics.
I'm a husband and father, living in Singapore, and from the Philippines. I explore data engineering and accounting at Titanium Birch.
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How the 2008 Financial Crisis Still Affects Us
I had recently stumbled upon this video that stitches together the great recession of 2008 to the crisis we are experiencing now. It’s a great video, and I recommend watching it in its entirety.
One thing I found super fun to build was a map of the root causes and effects stemming from 20 years ago all the way to today, and I wanted to share it here in case it helps anyone make sense of the mess.
Today I Learned
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Restoring modification timestamps in cloned git repos
I have a GitHub Actions Workflow that clones the repo, renders the content, then pushes it up to the
gh-pages branch to be published. However, the ordering of the field notes was dependent on the file modification timestamps. I imagine workflows that use Make will also be affected by this issue.