# kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

😱 Falsehoods Programmers Believe in

Repository: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/awesome-falsehood
License: CC0-1.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: falsehoods, phone-number, geography, postal-addresses, identity, date, time, myths, edge-cases, internationalization, phone-numbers, typography, currency, names, timezone, unicode, video-games, awesome, unicode-characters, awesome-list
Last push: 2026-08-14T13:32:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 76/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3646, "days_push": 19, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 27649, forks 642 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:47.943449+00:00)

## What it is
A curated awesome-list of articles cataloging 'falsehoods programmers believe in' - common wrong assumptions about domains like dates, names, addresses, phone numbers, and currencies. It serves as a reference to help developers avoid naive validation and data-modeling mistakes.

## Use cases
- find edge cases to consider when validating user input
- learn why assumptions about names and addresses break
- prepare checklist for internationalization pitfalls
- avoid naive date and timezone handling bugs
- research common myths before designing a data model
- find reading material on programmer misconceptions

## When to choose
- you want a curated index of falsehood articles across many domains
- you are designing validation or data models involving names, addresses, dates, or currencies
- you need educational material on internationalization and edge cases

## When to avoid
- you need executable code or a library to solve a specific validation problem
- you want a tutorial with step-by-step instructions rather than a link list

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: documentation, internationalization
- domain: developer-tools, tutorials, awesome-lists
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: awesome-list, falsehoods, edge-cases, validation, best-practices, curated-links, localization

## Member repositories
- kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood (main) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:47.943449+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:54:30.477550+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:47.943449+00:00, sha 7310b8c27103)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.