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Charlie Reese

Hey! I'm Charlie, the founder of ForecastOS Hivemind. I like to work where finance, investing, data science, and software intersect.

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Journey For Jonny: Biking 4,447km Trans-Canada For Cancer

From August 7 to 28 (2021), I biked 4,447km from Toronto to Vancouver to raise money for The Canadian Cancer Society and The Jonny Kellock Foundation . The journey was in memory of all Canadian cancer victims, like my dear friend Jonny Kellock . This article includes: Ride itinerary (with links

Y Combinator - Top 50 Software Startups

This article contains a list of the top 50 YC software startups (sourced from the October 2019 YC Top Companies page). It also contains aggregated statistics for valuations and back-end programming languages used. Values in this article are sourced, but I cannot guarantee their accuracy. Find me on Twitter @charlieinthe6

How to Host Your Own Podcast RSS Feed

I recently started a podcast with my friend Tom Zaragoza called the DEVpreneur. It's a podcast about working on a software / SaaS business as a software developer. Below I'll explain both how and why you should host your own podcast, as well as potential drawbacks of

Exploring Rails Internals

After an appropriate stint of rails-related imposture syndrome, I decided it was time to get a rough idea how rails works under the hood. Below is a list of knowledge gained / discoveries, in no particular order. Knowledge Gained / Discoveries: How to Start a VM for Ruby on Rails Core Development

A Drake Twitter-Bot - Automating the 6 God

I was at a bar with an old group of friends over the holidays. While we were waiting in line, one of them mentioned that he heard about a Twitter-bot that replied to tweets containing Biggie Smalls lyrics with other Biggie Smalls lyrics. I thought the idea was hilarious, and