From 23e8d5f1e22b549c6345c28dd0804a2f31718284 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: abnercoimbre <abnercoimbre@protonmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2025 22:04:09 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Polish x37 Winding Down

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@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ This story has two parts: financial and personal.
 
 1. **Financial**
 
-I hinted at economic trouble at the beginning of [this](/news/summer-update-2025/) summer update and in the bottom section of my Terminal Click [announcement](https://terminal.click/posts/2025/07/open-beta/). It's common knowledge profitable conferences are a dying species and I'm surprised I've lasted this long: Deconstruct, Strangeloop, Bang Bang Con, XOXO and other small-to-medium sized events vanished. Even corporate-backed conferences are no longer around: O'Reilly, Xfest, E3 and so on went away.
+I hinted at economic trouble at the beginning of [this](/news/summer-update-2025/) summer update and in the bottom section of my Terminal Click [announcement](https://terminal.click/posts/2025/07/open-beta/). It's common knowledge profitable conferences are a dying breed and I'm surprised I've lasted this long: Deconstruct, Strangeloop, Bang Bang Con, XOXO and other small-to-medium sized events vanished. Even corporate-backed conferences are no longer around: O'Reilly, Xfest, E3 and so on went away.
 
 2. **Personal**
 
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ I received a barrage of vile essays in my Inbox and Discord DMs, calling me a co
 
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-Warning: This is very dark stuff, and he torched our relationship. Criticism is one thing but this is something else. A lot of people inexplicably saw it before me. Here was my 1-minute response to his half-hour video:
+Warning: This is very dark stuff, and he torched our relationship. Criticism is one thing but this is something else. A lot of people inexplicably saw it before I could. Here was my 1-minute response to his half-hour video:
 
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@@ -71,9 +71,9 @@ Transforming into a combative individual has become incredibly useful, but there
 
 #### Nature is healing
 
-The Handmade meetups are awesome and they keep growing. We nerd out with demos and side projects. We help local programmers find work or make new friends every month. I train and mentor hosts, then they take the reins, so the scene is decentralized and self-sustaining. Meetups are cheap or free to run so I don't have to chase big revenue. Meanwhile, building [Terminal Click](https://terminal.click) as a full-time indie dev is therapy compared to wrangling humans for a living.
+The Handmade meetups are awesome and they keep growing. We nerd out with demos and side projects. We help local programmers find work or make new friends every month. I train and mentor hosts, then they take the reins, so the scene is decentralized and self-sustaining. Meetups are cheap or free to run so I don't have to chase big revenue. Meanwhile, building [Terminal Click](https://terminal.click) as a indie dev is therapy compared to wrangling humans for a living.
 
-An impressive number of people who ended their friendships with me have apologized. A couple of examples follow (you may need to open them in a new tab):
+An impressive number of people who ended their friendships with me have apologized as of late. A couple of examples follow (you may need to open them in a new tab):
 
 {{< image src="images/hmc/close_friend_apology.png" caption="Close Friend Apology" alt="Close Friend Apology" height="1114" width="255" position="center" command="fill" option="q100" class="img-fluid" title="Close Friend Apology"  webp="false" >}}