When you feel like hope is gone， look inside you and search your soul。 you will find a hero lies in you。 dreams are hard to follow， but don‘t let anyone steal your dream。

I published a little book. Honestly it kind of slaps https://summerlightning.substack.com/p/thinking-about-leaving

Dependency minimalism (writing software that deliberately tries to have as few dependencies as practical) is a really underrated virtue imo.

Every single dependency is a risk that "something will go wrong" during someone's installation process. Installing projects with hundreds of dependencies and walking through errors can be incredibly frustrating.

Geopolitics

Anyone else starting to get worried about this rise of casual open imperialism? Like, not "peaceful trade at prices social justice activists don't like" imperialism but actual "let's go conquer stuff" imperialism. I know it's "meant to be a joke", but often such jokes are a first step to normalizing something dark...

Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Jade

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