Falsehood
143 items from kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood ★27,763
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Naughty Strings github.com
This is the famous list of Naughty Strings. If you're doing some field validation, look no further for inspiration.
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libphonenumber github.com
🆓 Google's common Java, C++ and JavaScript library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers. Also available for C#, Objective-C, Python and PHP.
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libaddressinput github.com
🆓 Google's common C++ and Java library for parsing, formatting, and validating international postal addresses.
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Falsehoods about Fonts github.com
Assumptions about typography on the web and in desktop applications.
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i18n Testing Data github.com
🆓 Compilation of real-word international and diverse name data for unit testing and QA.
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Falsehoods about Time Zones zainrizvi.io
Has some nice points regarding the edge-cases of DST transitions.
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UTC is Enough for everyone, right? zachholman.com
There are edge cases about dates and time (specifically UTC) that you probably haven't thought of.
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The Maddening Mess of Airport Codes youtube.com
Having multiple international and national agencies trying to reconcile history, practicality and logistics makes codes follow arcane rules.
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Hi! My name is… youtube.com
This talk could have been named falsehoods about usernames (and other identifiers).
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Internationalis(z)ing Code youtube.com
A video about things you need to keep in mind when internationalizing your code.
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The Problem with Time & Timezones youtube.com
A video about why you should never, ever deal with timezones if you can help it.
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Your Calendrical Fallacy Is Thinking… yourcalendricalfallacyis.com
List covering intercalation and cultural influence, made by a community of iOS and macOS developers.
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Myths about File Paths yakking.branchable.com
Diversity of file-systems and OSes makes file paths a little harder than we might think of.
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XKCD #327: Exploits of a Mom xkcd.com
Funny take on how implementation of a falsehood might lead to security holes.
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“The system can’t handle a billion dollars” xcancel.com
Insane compensation at Meta in the middle of the AI-boom breaks ERPs.
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Hello, I'm Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers wired.com
Real-life example on how implemented falsehood has negative impact on someone's life.
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Falsehoods about text wiesmann.codiferes.net
Practical examples illustrating Unicode normalization, ligatures, surrogate pairs, character widths, and grapheme cluster pitfalls in substring operations.
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My name causes an issue with any booking! web.archive.org
Old airline reservation systems considers the MR suffix as Mister and drops it.
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Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money web.archive.org
Same error as above at Google Ads, or the danger of separating your pennies from your dollars, where $250 internal coupons turned into $25,000. My advice: get rid of integers and floats for monetary values. Use decimals. Or fallback to strings and parse them, don't validate.
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Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result? web.archive.org
Infamous Stack Overflow answer about both complicated historical timezones, and how historical dates can be re-interpreted by newer versions of software.
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