For the past few months, I’ve been working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers.

I didn’t want to spend a year writing the book only to find out that nobody wanted to buy it, so at the beginning of March, I ran a one-month pre-sale on Kickstarter. I structured the project so that if I didn’t hit $5k in pre-orders, the project would be canceled, and I’d walk away with nothing.

Writing a wrapper script around MozJPEG to achieve ~80% compression on large JPEGs with little downside.

I attended a lecture on the institutional landscape of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament this week. My rough notes are below.

I attended a lecture on the institutional landscape of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament this week. My rough notes are below.

You can't live life alone.

A community is essential.

One of the most important steps to beating depression enough to function, which I would argue can be a life-long exercise, is to hang out with people who remind you the glass is half full.

When you witness people who are hopeful in so many ways, you can borrow a little bit of hopefulness too.

Peak capitalism, and Instagram reels, have convinced us that we're better off protecting our peace, and must do what's best for us — in isolation.

This is not true.

We must be uncomfortable in small and self-consensual ways; and allow it to lead us into a richer community.

Surround yourself. 🌻

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