Stupid_code_tricks

Ah, Null. Infamously referred to as the billion-dollar mistake. As software engineers, we likely spend a quarter of our careers managing Null. Checking for it. Returning it. Trying to figure out WTF returned Null somewhere down there that caused an invalid de-reference here… No getting around it. Development in languages with Null can be Iffy. I’m a Ruby dev in my day job and after writing some variant of if ! [Read More]