In the middle of the night, I suddenly saw the news in my friends circle. I had no sleep all night.

Tengfei Zhang, pseudonym Vamei, holds a bachelor’s degree from University of Science and Technology of China and a PhD from Nanyang Technological University. He is the author of Programming with Python, and has written tutorials on Java, network protocols, and data analysis. His blog has more than 8 million views. Currently, he is engaged in innovation and entrepreneurship in the field of intelligent agriculture and serves as the chief technology officer of Rui Zooming Technology.

He died of depression on the night of February 28, 2019.

Everyone knows that people who like blogging also like reading blogs. I’ve been reading articles from the tech community every few days for almost a decade. Especially in the early days of my blog, I studied the Top 100 bloggers recommended by the Blog Park. At that time, I noticed Vamei, whose articles were easy to understand and humorous, and received the attention and praise of the majority of readers.

Vamei blogs at www.cnblogs.com/vamei/, covering Python/Linux/ network protocols/algorithms /Java/ data science. His posts cover almost every area of programming, and he is the standard technology god in my mind.

I would like to share with you some numbers of his blog: Number of fans: 7735, blog blog score ranking: 157, the total page views of blog blog more than 8 million, almost 62 Python articles written by him have been read tens of thousands, some of them have been read more than 200,000. I quoted him extensively the other day when I was writing Life is Short and I Use Python.

In shock, I searched his relevant information on the Internet and restored some of his stories.

Vamei, whose real name is Zhang Tengfei, was born in chengdu in 1988. His last job was as CTO of Rui Zooming Technology at the invitation of a friend. In 2012, he began to write in blog Park under the pseudonym Of Vamei.

Vamei motto: the will of generations, the change of times, the dream of people, as long as people continue to pursue the answer of freedom, all these things will never stop!

He wrote three books before his death:

  • The blackberry pie, how to play the Linux 9.3 book.douban.com/subject/302 douban score…
  • “From Python to start learning programming” douban score 8.4 book.douban.com/subject/269…
  • “The agreement forest” e-books published Douban score 9.6 read.douban.com/column/1788…

Studied in University of Science and Technology of China, majoring in integrated circuit design; He majored in geophysics at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. These majors seem to have no direct relationship with programming, but he has a wide range of interests, especially in the field of programming, more awesome than most of the professional programmers.

During my study, I always felt that the innovative research in the university was too far away from reality, hoping to change an industry through technology. His entrepreneurial experience is connected to two things.

  • 1. Vamei’s father worked in livestock feed and raw material futures, which gave him some knowledge of the livestock industry, but he was not interested in this traditional industry.
  • 2. During a hardware competition in the university, an entrepreneurial project about baby sensor attracted Vamei’s attention, which made him start to think whether the Internet of things and AI technology could be transferred and applied in animal husbandry.

Later, he joined rui Zooming Technology, a company founded by his friend, and served as CTO of Rui Zooming Technology.

Ruiyao Technology is one of the outstanding enterprises incubated by Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. According to the public information query, the company obtained A round of financing of 10 million yuan in 2018. The company has office areas in Singapore, Shanghai and Chengdu.

The main business of the company is to transform the traditional pig industry by using AI technology. It is a start-up company focusing on intelligent management of pig industry. At present, the company mainly launched two products — eDoctor and Smart Ear Tag, which can monitor the physiological index of pigs in real time and help farmers to manage the physiological condition of pigs in a low cost, large-scale, standardized and precise way.

So far, information about Vamei can still be found on the company’s website.

After returning to China, Vamei has a happy home, a quiet, gentle wife, a staunch supporter of his business, and a new baby son. To the outside world, he lived a happy and successful life, but unknown to everyone, he suffered from depression for a long time, and finally, on the last day of February, Dr. NTU left his proud career and family.

And left this world forever…

According to the World Health Organization, more than 300 million people worldwide suffer from depression, across all age groups, and nearly 800,000 depression patients end their lives every year. Up to now, I often hear people around me say that there is nothing to take too hard, it is a misunderstanding of personality problems and so on.

Depression is a kind of psychological disease, he is like our normal body is sick is a truth, need to take medicine guan Huan treatment. Don’t try to empathize with their feelings, you can’t understand the feeling of despair, if you can accompany is the best.

For us ordinary people, the only thing we can do is not to look at this group with colored glasses, treat them as ordinary people in our work and life, respect and understand them.

The world is big, life is short, cherish every day of our life!

Remember this ID: Vamei.

Vamei is the name of a typhoon near the equator. According to the law of weather, typhoons do not often appear at the equator. So the Vamei is an outlier, growing recklessly and wandering aimlessly.