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Software projects should break downstream users as little as possible, and make any breakage they do cause obvious and easy to fix.

Drawn from what David Crawshaw said

Subjectdesign
What this subject means

design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

What David Crawshaw actually said

  1. David Crawshaw Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale
    a good software project tries to break downstream as little as possible, and when we do break downstream, we should do our best to make the breakage obvious and easy to fix.

    Where this was said

    ↗log4j: between a rock and a hard placecrawshaw.io

    11 Dec 2021

    All 3 korrents from this piecethis one is 1st

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