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Julia Evans once said "behind every best practice is a horror story." If you don't understand a Best Practice, look for the horror story that inspired it. It might make the best practice make sense. It might turn out to be something that's completely irrelevant to you, and then you can feel comfortable doing a different practice instead.

- **Else statement.** Slack is the exception handler, when specific productivity apps don’t have a way to handle something. This should decrease in usefulness, as the apps build in handling of these use cases, and the companies build up internal processes.

Identify your error cases, plan for them, implement that plan, and then test it . Sometimes things don’t work! Most languages give you tools to identify error cases and handle them appropriately, so use them. And again, for the love of god, test it . If you commit and push a line of code that you have not personally watched run and work as expected... See more