Couple of finance related podcasts for this week's picks.

Podcasts:

• Freakonomics, Episode 298, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Money (But Were Afraid to Ask) - Great episode from last year that was recently re-released. Covers basic finance topics like compound interest and inflation.
• The Investor Podcast, Episode 169, FANG Stocks, Crypto, Central Banks, & Inflation - This episode is packed with expert advice. The Netflix discussion near the beginning provides great insight into fundamental analysis of …

Here are some word associations that might be helpful to remember some common Italian Verbs:

• CADERE - Cady falls catlike. - Cady cade come un gatto.
• CHIAMARE - Key-Mary calls midday. - Key-Mary chiama mezzogiorno.
• CHIEDERE - Key-Eddy asks keenly. - Key-Eddy chiede acutamente.
• CHIUDERE - Key-Eustace closes juices. - Key-Eustace chiude i succhi.
• DARE - Darin gives dozens. - Darin dà dozzine.
• DIVENTARE - Dante becomes dainty. - Dante diventa delicato.
• DOVERE - Dove owes two dollars. - Dove deve due dollari.
• FARE - Farah makes fairings. - Farah fa …

Been a while since the last picks post. I've been watching a lot of instructional videos on YouTube recently which inspired this pick.

Software:

• Video Speed Controller - This Chrome extension allows you to quickly increase or decrease the speed of an HTML5 video. Yeah, many sites have similar features built-in to their video players but this extension ramps it up a notch. Try it and you'll see how helpful the keyboard shortcuts are when watching …

Been using the great fzf CLI utility lately. Here's a neat trick to copy the search result to the Windows clipboard:

fzf | clip

The resulting copied text tends to include a carriage return however. To remove it, either add the --print0 option to the fzf command or permanently make it a default option using the FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS environment variable.

The use case for this trick is to quickly find a file within a project, copy the …

NOTE: This was originally posted on the Vim subreddit here.

Just learned aboug fd today and was impressed by its speed. Tried using it for ctrlp and it works great! Didn't take any precise measurements but for the CPython code base, stock ctrlp loaded in about 2 seconds, ctrlp+ripgrep about 1 second, and ctlp+fd about 0.5 seconds.

I'm running gVim 8.0.586 on Windows 10 and used the following in my …

Another quick update of random stuff I've been up to lately:

• Released a new version of gArchiver. This is the first new release in nearly two years. It is now built with Python 3.6 and wxPython 4.0.1.
• PopPage has some cool features like the run command and default files.
• Learning a lot about C# and the .NET framework. Microsoft has done a great job with the tooling centered around Visual Studio!
• Finally …

It's been a while since the last picks! This round includes the first two books in The Kingkiller Chronicle which is a planned trilogy of fantasy novels telling the life story of one of the most famous/infamous characters in their world, Kvothe. Author Patrick Rothfuss has done something truly special in these books. His story is unique yet familiar and masterfully crafted. My quick blurbs below won't do these books justice. If you are …