[falsedan]

Don't see how up-front modelling would have predicted the high planes of Unicode & MySQL's utf8 encoding being supplanted by utf8mb4 so users of your product could message taco emoji to each other.

I have an agenda against Getting It Right First Time, Every Time, since it encourages brittle code that's a struggle to adapt to new, seemingly-similar use cases.

[tclancy]

I don't understand how that first sentence is relevant. How would using apps organization vs the approach described in the article protect you from making the decision to change your database's underlying encoding?