Another important thing he points at is to not write you own incarnation of every library you find lacking but provide patches/support/whatever to existing ones

Another important thing he points at is to not write you own incarnation of every library you find lacking but provide patches/support/whatever to existing ones. While it might help your CV to have just another template library (which will inevitably be lacking again) on github, the ecosystem profits more from a few well defined and long-term maintained choices.