Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.

The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.

A JSON decoder MAY accept and ignore comments.

Using int made sense in the 50s. Not any more

In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

It turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type checking finds are no the errors I worry about.