https://jochum.dev/en/tags/self-stigma/ Recent content in Self-Stigma on jochum.dev https://jochum.dev/images/20260503-me.jpg https://jochum.dev/images/20260503-me.jpg Hugo en Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jochum.dev/en/society/20260822-a-hard-boundary-kills-the-inner-life/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jochum.dev/en/society/20260822-a-hard-boundary-kills-the-inner-life/ <p>One of the rules I build software by is: constraints outside, freedom inside.</p> <p>The conditions belong at the edge. What happens inside is then allowed to be direct. No function has to defend itself against its own callers, because what comes in was already decided at the boundary. The boundary is there so that the inside can be free.</p> <p>With people it turns over.</p> <h2 id="what-the-boundary-does-in-code">What the boundary does in code</h2> <p>It says what may cross. Nothing else.</p>