Heidi Waterhouse

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  • Linters and style guides and standards and tests

    Linters and style guides and standards and tests

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    Heidi Waterhouse
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    Consistency matters. Consistency matters for branding, because of copyright and recognition reasons, because you’re investing lots of money into that exact arrangement of letters.  Consistency matters for code, because computers are terrible at approximation and “close enough”. Consistency matters for documentation, because human language is really hard and weird. Consistency matters, but it’s wicked hard to…