Following up on the different types of IDs from last time, it’s often useful to have an ID that can be sent in a URL. The unique ID may not be appropriate for many reasons. Many systems use something called a slug for this purpose. A slug must be unique, but can change under some… Read More »
I need to write up a rebuttal of 5 line code principle. My experience has been that it is sometimes useful to extract a concept as a method when it makes sense by itself and can be named. If you can’t think of a good name that covers the concept, then you don’t have a… Read More »
Interesting article describing some patterns for defining errors in Rust. I had found myself slowly moving in that direction for some of my code. This puts some useful concepts in a cleaner form.