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Just renamed 15 columns throughout my…

Just renamed 15 columns throughout my app’s models from “name” to “title” because there’s NO EARTHLY WAY to prevent browsers from prompting users to auto-fill from their contacts if an input name, ID, or label contains any variation on the string “name”.

Sheer madness.


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