One of our team’s responsibilities at Google was to make style decisions and enforce them for Java. That doesn’t mean that we made these decisions unilaterally. There was an email list where anyone could send a proposed change to the style guide, and there would be a healthy debate, and then a group of “Java stylists” would make the actual decisions. The “Java stylists” came from across Google, not just the Java team.

A Google engineer named Hyrum Wright made an observation that came to be known as Hyrum’s Law:

I’m exploring using Jekyll and Github Pages to write a blog. So far, so good. Much better than Wordpress or Blogger!