Exploring the invisible assumptions in software, one edge case at a time
In Chinese culture, 4 sounds like death. In Western tradition, 13 is unlucky. When building global software, numbers are never just numbers - they're cultural artifacts.
Read Full Article →In numerology, 11 is the number of new beginnings and spiritual awakening. For 120 million Ethiopians, September 11th marks exactly that - their New Year. Yet most software treats it as just another day. This is the cost of invisible assumptions in our code.
Read Full Article →When your database schema enforces Western cultural constructs, you're not just creating bugs - you're excluding entire populations. Jokowi has one name. Your form has two required fields.
Coming SoonUTC+5:45. Not 5. Not 6. Exactly 5 hours and 45 minutes. Your integer-based timezone database just broke for millions of people.
Coming soon0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004. In financial systems, this isn't a curiosity - it's a catastrophe. Here's why floating point arithmetic will always betray you when money is involved.
Learn More →Draw Kashmir wrong and India bans you. Show Taiwan as independent and China blocks you. In geopolitics, there are no neutral borders - only anticontexts waiting to explode.
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