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A couple of related practices I've picked up over the years: (1) using long names when implementing things that are necessary but discouraged (2) putting dange_danger in names of things that should never be used in production.

The former introduces just a tiny bit of friction, but it's often enough to encourage developers to use the preferred API calls.

The latter I learned almost 20 years ago from Google's "Mustang" search back-end. If running a test instance of Mustang without bringing up a ton of dependency processes, there was a --danger_danger_must_not_fail true commandline flag (or something very similar) to turn a bunch start-up sanity check aborts into warning log messages. If any code reviewer sees "danger_danger" being added to production command line flags, they'll almost certainly ask the right questions.

parent KMag 3 years ago

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