“Imagine if — starting with version 6.0 maybe — the WordPress team chose to actually deprecate themes, and then added modules and components as first-class extensions instead? “
WordPress should deprecate themes — a modest proposal
PHP’s Composer is the worst tool, but it is the best we’ve got
“Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried.” Winston Churchill, plagiarized Composer for PHP is much like democracy, except for there are no others. So I have always hated Composer, for many reasons. And my views on Composer are admittedly in stark contrast with many others …
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Go’s unfortunate err != nil idiom
All-in-all, I am a big proponent of the errors-as-values approach to error handling in Go. I definitely agree with the general wisdom of handling errors when and where they occur, and not delegating them using exceptions. So this post is not about how many people find needed to handle errors through code an annoyance. To …
In defense of “Syntactic Sugar”
One of my biggest career pet peeves as a software developer is when I see other developers derisively write “Well, that is just syntactic sugar“ in response to a proposal for improving a programming language. So today I want to write in defense of this often maligned underdog, and explain why syntactic sugar not only …