gbhorwood

joined 1 year ago
[–] gbhorwood@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

had a co-worker once who called the variable holding the first record in a complicated workflow "rec1st" and the last record "reclst", unaware that in every font used by every code editor except his, a lowercase l and number 1 look identical.

i spent a day debugging that after he quit.