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The best kind of love is like Kintsugi (金継ぎ). It's a kind of love that flows through all the cracks and crevices of your life and binds its pieces together. It makes good times more memorable, the hard times more bearable, and navigates your thoughts and emotions in a way you'd never think to, but in a way that's truly understood.
I was really dumb a year ago. I was also really dumb just a few months ago. If I’m lucky, in just a few short weeks I’ll realize just how dumb I’m being right now. It’s a strange feeling knowing that stupidity is inevitable. It’s also a very powerful one. Accepting this fact is the first step to eventually changing it. In the past, I would have much preferred LARPing as someone that knew what they…
Edit: I want to preface this by saying yes the practices here are very bad and embarrassing (and we've since added robust unit/integration tests and alerting/logging), could/should have been avoided, were human errors beyond anything, and very obvious in hindsight. This was from a different time under large time constraints at the very earliest stages (first few weeks) of a company. I'm mostly…