Tag: empathy

Naming things is one of the hard problems in Computer Science. Users want to be able to change their usernames for a variety of reasons. If your GitHub app uses the username information from GitHub, you should ensure you properly handle when this changes.

Personally, I've come to prefer languages that have static type systems over those with more dynamic ones. I was reflecting while investigating a stack trace for work and I realized that there is an undercurrent of empathy to my preference. Much has been said about "types as tests" and "eliminating classes of bugs by making illegal state unrepresentable", but I haven't seen it expressed from this framing before.