Why should this conversation be separate from other conversations about the work to be done? Design is one consideration alongside frontend and backend considerations, which often all intersect and require the same participants. Shifting this discussion to a separate work item can result in disjointed conversations and difficulty finding where a decision was made.

The user's Google account sign-in status and your app are independent of each other, except during the sign-in moment itself when you know that the user has successfully authenticated and is signed into their Google account. Users may remain signed in, they may sign out, or switch to a different Google account while maintaining an active, signed-in session on your website.

Orthogonal, which in geometry means perpendicular, refers in chemistry to reactions that can proceed independently in the same medium without affecting each other.

The assert method is used by all the other assertions. It pushes the second parameter to the list of errors if the first parameter evaluates to false or nil.

Derived data can move between being synchronous and asynchronous without modifying the components that use it.

Recoil defines a directed graph orthogonal to but also intrinsic and attached to your React tree.

some programming languages that provide lexical closures view encapsulation as a feature of the language orthogonal to object orientation.

(Now that I write this i think there is already a ticket for that.) It’s orthogonal to this but related to the same problem space...

Though that's orthogonal to the self-healing property of the double ratchet.