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Some files are haunted, and that's okay. Every project needs lore.

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A thank-you to everyone maintaining libraries we rely on while sometimes forgetting just how much work goes into them.

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The red team’s job is to prove you’re vulnerable. The blue team’s job is to prove they aren’t. The purple team’s job is to survive the debrief.

One of the most powerful coding habits is stopping to explain the problem to yourself out loud.

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Impostor syndrome is just your brain rate-limiting your confidence.

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Breaking things is easy. Understanding why they break is art.

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