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• vim-troll-stopper

  2 176 0.0 Vim Script

  Stop Unicode trolls from messing with your code.

  

Replacing ascii with similar-looking unicode characters is an old trick. There's a bunch of these characters out there. You can use it in the code to prank your colleague developers - April 1st is nearing!

I even made a vim plugin that highlights these "dangerous" characters: https://github.com/vim-utils/vim-troll-stopper

I've never been pranked with unicode characters, but I've had a situation at work where a consultant from Japan unintentionally used some "japanese space" characters in a translation file, and that broke our app. Since I have my vim plugin running all the time it didn't take me a lot to see what's going on.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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