Some people live and breath 'best practice' development. I am not one of them. Risk is, in-experienced developers (or sometimes experienced) might use them just cause they are 'best practice' and not think more about it. Even when it turns out they are not. He…
Acting seems like the most inauthentic thing to do — like putting an external façade to manipulate the audience to get the desired effect. Most people learning to lead don’t associate acting with leadership. I balked when I opened the first chapter, “Presence:…
There is a lot of idealistic rhetoric in the software industry. That’s not exactly new, and for the most part we’re able to look past the often quite absolute language (the “musts” and the “bests”), and remember the importance of context. But that statement ge…
These past years I’ve grown to be more privacy-aware. And while this post isn’t about how I’m increasing my personal privacy, I’d like to talk about how I’m increasing yours.
I was recently in a 1-1 with my new EM and was asked what annoys me at work. The one thing that immediately popped to mind was:
‘I hate it when someone just messages me “Hello” or “Hi, how are you” when they message me for something on Slack’
It became immed…
Closes #56374
Design
There are currently multiple strategies for emitting switch dispatches on strings:
a linear sequence of string comparisons (when fewer than 7 cases)
dispatch on the input's ha...