I wasn't too excited when I was informed that the web app I had been automating with Selenium was about to undergo a major UI overhaul. While UI changes meant improved functionality and user experience, they also meant hours of rewriting and debugging automating scripts. My existing Selenium framework had served me well, but this change felt like an opportunity to explore newer tools. That’s when I decided to give Playwright a try.

Biggest Heist Ever is a Netflix documentary that shows story of the events around the Bitfinex hack in 2016, where 199,754 bitcoins were stolen. At the time this heist was worth approximately $72 million. By the time culprits were caught these assets were worth $4 billion. I haven't heard of this hack or haven't paid attention. That's why I was interested to see this new Netflix documentary. Unfortunately, I ended having more questions than answers after watching the documentary. Biggest Heist Ever is definitely not the best documentary ever Netflix has produced.

Establishing a human colony has long been associated with science fiction, space exploration, and the dream of expanding humanity’s reach beyond Earth. Colonizing Mars, in particular, has become an obsession for many, symbolizing human innovation and survival in the face of uncertainty. Yet, as grand as the vision of a Martian colony may be, there is an argument to be made that focusing our efforts on building a sustainable colony in Antarctica would be far more significant, practical, and beneficial for humanity’s immediate and long-term future. This isn’t a dismissal of space exploration, but a reframing of priorities. Why venture across millions of kilometers to build a home on an inhospitable planet when we have one of the harshest, most unexplored frontiers right here on Earth? Antarctica offers an opportunity to challenge ourselves, innovate solutions for extreme environments, and address critical issues like climate change and sustainable living while preparing us for any eventual ventures into space.

Extracting data from documents with python is not only fun but also saves ton of time. Python provides tools for automating such repetitive tasks and also many libraries that let us interact with documents programmatically. I have multiple scripts that does just that, extract data from hundreds of documents, clean data, and present in a more useful format. All of this can be automated and done with a click of a button. Alternative would be spending hours scanning through documents manually. Over the time things change. The data we need change, structure of documents we use change, the goals change. This may require revisiting and updating scripts. This becomes a bit more challenging if it has been a while since we wrote the scripts. This has been the case for me again this week.

Today Microsoft shareholders voted down the proposal for the company to invest in bitcoin. When it was reported Microsoft shareholders were going to vote on bitcoin strategy last month, it was a welcome news for many in crypto world. This seemed like an no-brainer move for a company like Microsoft. Unfortunately, shareholders decided to side with the board and rejected the bitcoin strategy. This was expected outcome. Not because bitcoin strategy is not a good fit the the company business, but because Microsoft is known for making big mistakes when it comes to new technologies. The story of the Microsoft is an interesting one. It has many instances of massive success, but also display obvious business decision blunders. In my opinion, Microsoft has made another blunder with rejecting bitcoin strategy. We will most likely see them playing a catching up gain in the future, as they have done many times in the past.

Bitcoin corporate FOMO continues. Everybody involved in markets and investments have been impressed by MicroStrategy's Bitcoin Strategy. How can you not be? The $MSTF stock has outperformed almost everything, if not everything. It even outperformed bitcoin itself. All this due to their bitcoin strategy. Nothing changed in their daily business operations. That is not what investors buy their stocks. Clearly, there is something interesting for investment to explore here. So, others have been watching closely and exploring their options. Not only smaller cap companies but also big ones like Microsoft are considering similar strategies. Now Amazon shareholders have shown interest as well.