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When Your Validation Logic Hates Real People

Testing Security Programming Debugging Databases

8 days ago 63.9K views 0 shares

When Your Validation Logic Hates Real People

When your validation logic is too aggressive. Tony Hawk gets deleted because "that can't be the real Tony Hawk" and Dallas Tester gets nuked because an airline's regex thinks he's a test account. Classic case of overzealous input sanitization that treats legitimate edge cases as security threats. This is why we can't have nice names in production. Somewhere, a developer is adding if(name != "Tony Hawk" && !name.includes("test")) to their validation code and calling it a day.

Every Class You Break, Every Fix You Fake, I'll Be Judging You

Programming Webdev Debugging

2 months ago 77.6K views 0 shares

Every Class You Break, Every Fix You Fake, I'll Be Judging You

The IDE has trust issues worse than my ex. It watches your every keystroke, ready to judge your code before you've even finished typing. Then the moment you complete the line, it suddenly retracts all its accusations like that coworker who talks behind your back then acts nice to your face. The digital equivalent of "I knew what you were doing all along" followed by the programmer's version of gaslighting. Classic Stockholm syndrome relationship between developer and tooling.