Date, Time, and Timezones — The Necessary Evil
Computers are fast, deterministic, and precise… until you ask them what time it is. Then everything falls apart. Why Timezones Exist (Short Version) Before standardized […]
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Make vs. CMake: A Love Letter to Simplicity (and a Mild Complaint About Modernity)
There was a time when build systems had the decency to be understood by humans. You opened a Makefile. You read it. You nodded. You […]
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IBAPI and the ProtoBuf Transition: Ignore It, Embrace It, or Fear It?
When Interactive Brokers started moving IBAPI toward Protocol Buffers in the 10.35+ line, many developers had the same reaction: “Oh no. Do I have to […]
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The Evolution of IBAPI: From Scrappy Interface to Structured Trading Backbone
If you’ve worked with Interactive Brokers’ API (IBAPI) long enough, you’ve felt it: this is not a product that was “designed once.” It’s a system […]
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