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  1. Christian Posta blog.christianposta.com

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  2. Domain-Driven Rails blog.arkency.com

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  3. Being the Worst beingtheworst.com

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  4. Kenny Baas-Schwegler baasie.com

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  5. Axon Framework axonframework.org

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  6. ASP.NET Boilerplate aspnetboilerplate.com

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  7. Ardalis.com ardalis.com

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  8. Adaptech adaptechsolutions.net

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  9. ABP abp.io

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  10. Aaron Stannard aaronstannard.com

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  11. Aardling Blog aardling.eu

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  12. Falsehoods about Time Zones zainrizvi.io

    Has some nice points regarding the edge-cases of DST transitions.

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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. Hi! My name is… youtube.com

    This talk could have been named falsehoods about usernames (and other identifiers).

  16. Internationalis(z)ing Code youtube.com

    A video about things you need to keep in mind when internationalizing your code.

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  17. 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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  18. Your Calendrical Fallacy Is Thinking… yourcalendricalfallacyis.com

    List covering intercalation and cultural influence, made by a community of iOS and macOS developers.

  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. “The system can’t handle a billion dollars” xcancel.com

    Insane compensation at Meta in the middle of the AI-boom breaks ERPs.

  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. Falsehoods about Online Shopping wiesmann.codiferes.net

    Covers prices, currencies and inventory.

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  25. Falsehoods about Geography wiesmann.codiferes.net

    Takes on places, their names and locations.

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  26. 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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  27. Falsehoods about Maps web.archive.org

    Covers coordinates, projection and GIS.

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  28. 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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  29. Falsehoods about Networks web.archive.org

    Covers TCP, DHCP, DNS, VLANs and IPv4/v6.

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  30. 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.

  31. Decimal Point Error in Etsy's Accounting System web.archive.org

    The importance of types in accounting software: missing the decimal point ends up with 100x over-charges.

  32. The Hidden Complexity of Downloading Favicons, Told in 15+ Edge Cases web.archive.org

    Downloading that little icon you see in you browser tabs should be a simple exercise. It turned out to be a lot more complicated than you think. Be vigilant that you are not shaving a Yak.

  33. What every software engineer should know about search web.archive.org

    A better sourced article on the difficulty of implementing search engines.

  34. Top 5 most insane kanji place names in Japan web.archive.org

    “There's one special group of kanji that's hard even for Japanese people to read: place names.”

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  35. Falsehoods about REST APIs web.archive.org

    Pitfalls to be mindful of when creating and documenting APIs.

  36. ISO-8601, YYYY, yyyy, and why your year may be wrong web.archive.org

    String formatting of date is hard.

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  37. Gay Marriage: The Database Engineering Perspective web.archive.org

    How to store a marriage in a database while addressing most of the falsehoods about gender, naming and relationships.

  38. Falsehoods about Job Applicants web.archive.org

    Assumptions about job applicants and their job histories aren't necessarily true.

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  39. Critical and Significant Dates web.archive.org

    From Y2K to the overflow of 32-bit seconds from Unix epoch, a list of special date to watch for depending on the system.

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  40. Personal Names Around the World w3.org

    How do people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications for the Web?

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  41. Falsehoods about Residence twitter.com

    It's not only about the address itself, but the relationship between a person and its residence.

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  42. Falsehoods about Political Appointments twitter.com

    Designing election systems has its own tricks.

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