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Apr 22, 2014 at 19:50
Sometimes a comment in code is just to persuade future readers that what you've done will work as intended.

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Jun 28, 2019 at 22:21
Users are increasingly cynical of "only N still available" messages trying to persuade you to buy:
Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge - Behavioral Scientist
Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge - Behavioral Scientist
New research indicates that consumers are catching on and may be annoyed by certain nudges, potentially limiting their effectiveness.
Jun 25, 2019 at 18:37
Other programmers using your code is often a high compliment. Making something from scratch is fun, but learning someone else's API is work. Rather than the common "I built one, you should use it", I try to ask "what would persuade you to use this?".
Jun 26, 2018 at 21:28
Turns out that patching Emacs' library loading whilst silencing user feedback can lead to some really interesting bugs: https://github.com/cask/shut-up/pull/12/commits/2495e8bf3d424f88f82679dd94def6b87960c4a9 This might be the longest commit message I've ever written. I think a good message tries to persuade the maintainer to accept the PR.