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‘Operation failed. Please try again later’ is not a user-empathetic error message. “As a r…#
‘Operation failed. Please try again later’ is not a user-empathetic error message.
“As a result, defensive programming is vastly more necessary for shipped applications. Many things can and will go wrong that the developer never anticipated, and the application needs to be able to fail gracefully. That includes non-fatal error messages that provide some indication to the user of what’s wrong and how they can fix it and what to tell the development team.”
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/best-practices
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“Tech has become all Jobs and no Woz. As Dave Karpf rightly identifies, the hacker has vanished…#
“Tech has become all Jobs and no Woz. As Dave Karpf rightly identifies, the hacker has vanished from the scene, to be replaced by an endless array of know-nothing hero founders whose main superpower is the ability to bully subordinates (and half of Twitter) into believing they are always right.”
https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/09/14/founder-mode-hackers-and-being-bored-by-tech/