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Why Developers Should Stop Using ISO 8601 for Date-Time
When documenting APIs, developers often link to ISO 8601 as the standard for computer-readable date and date-time format. Dates and times (and time zones!) are complicated. There are so many edge cases and pitfalls. I’m sure every developer has a battle story about them. It’s good to delegate that hard work to somebody else. So when an international body that everybody knows and trusts publishes such a standard, it’s no surprise all the API designers start referring to it.
Replace null with ES6 Symbols
When I was working on my small side-project library, I needed to represent a missing value. In the past, I’d used the nullable approach in simple settings and Option (aka Maybe) when I wanted more control. In this case neither felt correct so I came up with a different approach I’d like to present.
Dictator paradox: Why micromanagement is so tempting
I firmly believe all creative people hate when others tell them what to do. When instead of problems to solve they are handled solutions to implement or, even worse, isolated tasks to just complete. Yet, the world is full of micromanagers. Over my career, I’ve heard countless complaints about how managers do not give their reports enough context, enough trust, enough freedom. That they decide all on their own. Why is that?
