For a start, when we consider rules, we have to ask: whose rules? That’s Cecelia Watson writing about punctuation and grammar in the fabulous little book I read last night called Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark. It is excellent and you should go read it but Watson’s argument can be...

Developers often complain when they have to support time zones or daylight saving time. The time they want to show differs by one (or more) hours from the time in the data. Sometimes they solve this by adding the difference themselves, not knowing that this only made the problem worse and the time…