@ajft 😧

@ajft I need to show this to my friends ["Mary", "Anne"] and ["John", "Paul"]

@ajft change your name to Joyouneedtolearnhowlongnamefieldsshouldbe

Just to break it the other way😆

@ajft next problem: names may not contain spaces, underscores or non-visible unicode characters

@ajft clearly those programmers have not read this https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

@ajft yup

@ajft Jo_
Or Jo alt-255

@ajft Always a classical that minimum number of characters 😆

@ajft cc @yournameisinvalid

@ajft Time to adopt an Emoji as part of your name 🙃

cc @ShadowJonathan lol

@ajft It's me but having more than one middle name and a two word last name.

@ajft @JustTooOdd
Because we are all named the same...
In Latin America (and the Iberic Penninsula) we have two last names... it would be common for a Spanish/Portuguese-speaking developer to expect two last names... and the opposite..
if you are Alex Benitez Carranza, first name Alex, last names Benitez Carranza.. a north American system will assume Benitez is your middle name Alex B. Carranza..

@ajft tell me about it, my name is a letter

@ajft Jo!

@ajft It’s the most reasonable thing to do (hurling programmers into the sea, that is). I feel shame being associated with this sort of thing, and have absolutely been in meetings/code reviews where validation was approached from the perspective of what’s possible rather than what’s useful. Anyway, obligatory: https://xkcd.com/2030/

@ajft @Gustodon I’d find the max with something like ‘Jooooooooooooooooooooooooooo’

@ajft o3o is my array length.

@ajft ignoring the terrible choice of requiring a minimum of three characters... What's with the "or an array type"? I wonder what happens if you try sending back a form response with multiple first names? (which site is this anyway?)

@ajft

I'm so freaking tired of lazy development.

Other engineering fields have actual discipline.

Whatever happened to the concept of craftsmanship, of creating things worth taking pride in?

@ajft
Names of people cannot be invalid.

@ajft Maybe try ["J", "o", null] or "Jo­".

@ajft Names, addresses, dates & time, passwords. So many people don’t have a clue about them.

And occasionally a programmer can try to explain it to a manager and designer, but gets overruled anyway. Until a few years later some customer complaints and then it’s the programmer’s fault.

@ajft yep, have implemented this exact bug

@ajft Yes. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ :)

@ajft I got this with my e-mail. Apparently having 2 letters before the @ also sometimes causes trouble

@ajft why does it accept an array 😭

@ajft write [object Object] instead to cause pointless debugging to whoever did that

@ajft introducing them to my friends Q (first name only) and R (last name only) oh and M (her middle name)

@ajft @foone OMG that is terrible! I wonder if [“Jo”,,,] would pass validation

@ajft TWo J's I suppose!

@ajft jooooo

@ajft@aus.social Jo-my-name-is-only-two-characters-long

@ajft "Weird" Al Yankovic trying to sign up:

@ajft my dumbass rest
:3
Instead of 3

@ajft Reminded of someone whose surname is "Null" ... and how to properly validate text entry:

"Jennifer Null’s husband had warned her before they got married that taking his name could lead to occasional frustrations in everyday life. ... When Jennifer Null tries to buy a plane ticket, she gets an error message on most websites. The site will say she has left the surname field blank and ask her to try again."

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160325-the-names-that-break-computer-systems

@ajft

Another example to add to this:

https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/

@ajft No surname is a thing in Afghanistan or so I was lead to believe.

@ajft Also "loved" once that a website told me my name was not real because it had a tilde: ~

💢

@ajft I call myself QueerRi when this happens.

['J', 'o', '']

@ajft
does it accept space?

@ajft unless it's 30th Feb...

@ajft Into the sea with them!
/cc @yournameisinvalid

@ajft
Would #theArtistPreviouslyKnownAsPrince be able to register?

@ajft @luciedigitalni You know that might even be a new falsehood programmers believe about names…

@ajft I have simply stopped writing my last name correctly since living in the UK. About 50% chance they accept a "ü" in the name.

It also sometimes sucks to be a Ян (Yan). I know one who adds a ъ to his name in this case, pre-revolution-spelling style.