Such an excellent essay about those falsehoods. My biggest frustration about names though, is that even if I “do it right” more or less by allowing a full name

Such an excellent essay about those falsehoods. My biggest frustration about names though, is that even if I “do it right” more or less by allowing a full name to be a single column with loose “validation,” the next thing I’m confronted with is some stupid integration point whose API demands exactly “first name” and “last name” and we’re stuck parsing our nice single name field up into random slices. Mostly because someone wanted to get cute by uselessly greeting you with a “Hi, Bob!” or they think those circles with exactly 2 initials are a good substitute for putting names on the screen.