diff --git a/developer-handbook.md b/developer-handbook.md
index b5168da6..ee88612b 100644
--- a/developer-handbook.md
+++ b/developer-handbook.md
@@ -164,9 +164,9 @@ The Ox way of doing things is the Olympic way of doing things.
 
 Instead of throwing exceptions, generally try to use
 [ox::Errors](deps/ox/ox-docs.md#error-handling) for error reporting,
-but exceptions may be used where they make sense.
+but exceptions may be used where errors-as-values will not work.
 
-Exceptions should generally just use ```OxException```, which is bascially an
+Exceptions should generally just use ```ox::Exception```, which is basically an
 exception form of ```ox::Error```.
 
 ### File I/O