There's No Such Thing As Plain Text • Dylan Beattie • YOW! 2023
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ABSTRACT
Software is complicated. Machine learning, microservice architectures, message queues… every few months there’s another revolutionary idea to consider, another framework to learn. And underneath so many of these amazing ideas and abstractions is text. When you work in software, you spend your life working with text. Some of those text files are source code, some are configuration files, some of them are documentation. Editors, revision control systems, programming languages - everything from C# and HTML to Git and VS Code is based on the idea that we’re working with “plain text” files. But… what if I told you there’s no such thing?
When we say something is a plain text file, we’re relying on a huge number of assumptions - about operating systems, editors, file formats, language, culture, history… and, most of the time, that’s OK. But when it goes wrong, good old plain text can lead to some of the weirdest bugs you’ve ever seen. Why is there Chinese in the SQL event logs? Why has the city of Aarhus disappeared? And why does Magnus Mårtensson always have trouble getting into the USA?
Join Dylan Beattie for a fascinating look into the hidden world of text files - from the history of mechanical teletypes, to how emoji skin tones actually work. We’ll look at some memorable bugs, some golden rules for working with plain text, and we’ll find out what the phrase “PIKE MATCHBOX” has to do with driving in the Soviet Union. [...]
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Every talk i watch by Dylan has been absolutely amazing. I love being a certified Rockstar developer and the fun you bring to coding! This one especially made me think about all the considerations that go into text and other seemingly simple things we use everyday. I knew time zones were a mess but when every alphabet past, present, and future is involved, hats off to Unicode and the UTF-8 standard. Keep up the great talks! 😁
@Rx7man
2 ай бұрын
I'm always looking forward to a new Dylan Beattie talk.. even if it's the same topic as one i've already watched (I watched "Plain text" from NDC already) but besides my brain is like a sieve, there's always a few additions and modifications that are interesting.
Thanks for Making this topic interesting for us
A fantastic talk👍
I do really wish Dylan talks more about CJK stuff. The Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters. Like, I guess it’s a bit outside of the scope of this talk? But things like Han Unification is super interesting.
Give this guy a talk show! He's so much better than the Spotify or pot fuelled 'talking' heads out there. Just give him the radio station for that matter! We'd lose a good programmer but AI is gonna need an overlord anyway. I nominate Dylan for overlord! ;-)
Great talk but you should leave politics out of software.
@mikumikudice
3 ай бұрын
all kind technology (knowledge, in general) is permeated by politics
@HtotheG
2 ай бұрын
I think you may have missed the overlying message that even just trying to code and create fun things like emojis or alphabetical sorting which you would imagine live in political isolation can be influenced by the political climate it exists in because in the end most things are used by some random end user who has some political bias that we may agree or disagree with but irregardless we may be forced to take their biases into our considerations when making software
2 ай бұрын
@@HtotheGAnd I think you might have missed the part at 49:22
SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport (July 1994). Per wikipedia "virtually all modern mail relays are 8-bit clean."