Miscellaneous
17,336 items in 132 lists
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USPS Postal Addressing Standards pe.usps.com
Describes both standardized address formats and content.
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UK Address Oddities paulplowman.com
Quirks extracted from a list of most residential property sales in England and Wales since 1995.
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Falsehoods about garbage collection paul.bone.id.au
Misconceptions about the predictability and performance of garbage collection.
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Falsehoods about Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) pardalotus.tech
False conceptions about the identifiers that are used to identify and link research outputs (and a lot of other things).
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Falsehoods about Search opensourceconnections.com
Why search (including analysis, tokenization, highlighting) is deceptively complex.
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The Soul of a New Machine openlibrary.org
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How to choose between UT1, TAI and UTC news.ycombinator.com
Depends on your priorities between SI seconds, earth rotation sync, leap seconds avoidance.
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URLs: It's complicated… netmeister.org
There's a lot of components in an URL, and all have their own logic.
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Your E-Mail Validation Logic is Wrong netmeister.org
A summary of the various, surprising things that are allowed in an email address.
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Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating netmeister.org
A list of things (not only) computer science students tend to erroneously and at times surprisingly believe even though they (probably) should know better.
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The Long, Painful History of Time naggum.no
Most of the idiosyncrasies in timekeeping can find an explanation in history.
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MusicBrainz database schema musicbrainz.org
An open-source project and database that seems to have solved the complexity of music catalog management.
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Falsehoods about Addresses mjt.me.uk
Covers streets, postal codes, buildings, cities and countries.
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Falsehoods about CVE medium.com
CVE ≠ vulnerability (and 36 other confusions).
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Breaking Our Latin-1 Assumptions manishearth.github.io
Most programmers spend so much time with Latin-1 they forgets about other's scripts quirks.
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Let's Stop Ascribing Meaning to Code Points manishearth.github.io
Dives deeper in Unicode and dispels myths about code points.
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There's more than one way to write an IP address ma.ttias.be
Some parts of the address are optional, mind the decimal and octal notations, and don't forget IPv6 either.
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The Door Problem lizengland.com
All the things you have not considered implementing for your doors in games.
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Falsehoods about Music literateprogrammer.blogspot.fr
False assumption that might be made in codifying music.
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Falsehoods about Language lexiconista.com
Additional cases to complement the previous article.
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The Bear with Its Own ZIP Code kottke.org
Smokey Bear has his own ZIP Code (20252) because he gets so much mail.
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Falsehoods about Falsehoods Lists kevin.deldycke.com
Meta commentary on how these falsehoods shouldn't be handled.
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Falsehoods about Package Managers kdeldycke.github.io
Covers package and their managers.
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Falsehoods about Names kalzumeus.com
The article that started it all.
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Minimum to Know About Unicode and Character Sets joelonsoftware.com
A good introduction to unicode, its historical context and origins, followed by an overview of its inner working.
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Rules for Autocomplete jeremymikkola.com
Not falsehoods per se, but still a great list of good practices to implement autocompletion.
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Falsehoods about Plain Text jeremyhussell.blogspot.com
Plain text can't cut it, which makes Unicode even more incredible for its ability to just work well.
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Unicode misconceptions jean.abou-samra.fr
A collection of falsehoods on case, encodings, string length, and more.
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More Falsehoods about Time infiniteundo.com
Part. 2 of the article above.
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Falsehoods about Time infiniteundo.com
Seminal article on dates and time.
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RFC-3339 vs ISO-8601 ijmacd.github.io
An giant list of formats from the two standards, how they overlaps, and live examples.
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I Hate Coordinate Systems ihatecoordinatesystems.com
A guide for geospatial practitioners on diagnosing and fixing common issues with coordinate systems.
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Time Zone Database iana.org
🆓 Code and data that represent the history of local time for many representative locations around the globe.
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Ode to a shipping label i.imgur.com
Character encoding is hard, more so when each broken layer of data input adds its own spice.
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HL7 v3 RIM hl7.org
A flexible data model for representing human names.
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Falsehoods about Pagination hezmatt.org
Why your pagination algorithm is giving someone (possibly you) a headache.
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Apple Music Style Guide help.apple.com
Quality insurance guidelines to format music, art, and metadata to increase discoverability.
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Falsehoods about Video haasn.xyz
Cover it all: video decoding and playback, files, image scaling, color spaces and conversion, displays and subtitles.
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I Knew How to Validate an Email Address Until I Read the RFC haacked.com
Provides intricate examples that are unsuspected valid email addresses according the RFC-822.
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Falsehoods about Versions github.com
Attributing an identity to a software release might be harder than thought.
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CLDR currency definitions github.com
🆓 Currency validity date ranges overlap due to revolts, invasions, new constitutions, and slow planned adoption.
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Falsehoods about Bitcoin github.com
A list of mistaken perspectives on Bitcoin.
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Falsehoods about Phone Numbers github.com
Covers phone numbers, their representation and meaning.
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Falsehoods about IBANs github.com
International Bank Account Numbers are not international.
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Critique of Falsehoods about Time gist.github.com
Takes on the first article above and provides an explanation of each falsehood, with more context and external resources.
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Falsehoods about Ethereum gist.github.com
Misconceptions and common pitfalls in contract programming.
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Falsehoods about Prices gist.github.com
Covers currencies, amounts and localization.
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#1 gist.github.com
& #2 - Gender is part of human identity and has its own subtleties.
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Falsehoods about Women In Tech gist.github.com
Myth about women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) industries.
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Falsehoods about Language garbled.benhamill.com
Translating a software from English is not as straightforward as it seems to be.
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