Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
— George Orwell
This whole website is a living document, but this page is especially living. These are strong beliefs that are weakly held, I'm certain many of these will change over time.
Some of these will seem trivial and obvious, but they are all written because I have seem them consistently violated in professional settings. These writing were initially intended to be a code practices guide, but they became just angry venting.