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📘 Libraries are awesome!

Well-designed libraries are black-boxes which are expected to just work. They increase the development productivity a notch, by providing an abstraction layer — so we only need to worry about the logic of handling the inputs and outputs; and delegate the processing part to the library.

In science, computing, and engineering, a black box is a device, system or object which can be viewed in terms of its inputs and outputs (or transfer characteristics), without any knowledge of its internal workings. Its implementation is "opaque" (black)

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🤷‍♂️ "It's not my fault!"

Mistakes are commonplace in Software Development. Especially in situations which are not under your control — like an unknown bug from an imported library.

As a result, at times, manoeuvring to a working end-product could become a frustrating endeavour. If you come across such situations with a developer; remembering this fact, helps to have the requisite empathy towards him/her.

Having said that, taking corrective action — either changing to a different library; or cloning the library locally, peeking into it, and making required changes for the "blackbox" to work — falls on the said developer.