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by jef_leppard 1469 days ago
Good APIs and interfaces are everything. I call it "the hotdog principle" when I am mentoring folks who are new to the concept. A good API is like a hot dog: Hot dogs are delicious. That is all you need to know about them. You don't want to know whats inside them or details of how they get made. You will be sad if you do.

It's funny and gross enough to stick most of the time.

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Don’t tell me how the sausage was made!

That said sometimes abstractions leak. I was using Firebase and getting the public Url for a blob given it’s path is an async call! God knows why.