Let's talk about usernames
www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/feb/11/usernames
What Jamie wrote
If you are writing software for usernames this is an interesting dive into edge cases. If you know programmers and wonder why they are so weird, this is a good illustration of the kind of edge cases that programmers need to readily understand how to predict and then design for. 😳
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