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• cocalc

  4 1,115 10.0 TypeScript

  CoCalc: Collaborative Calculation in the Cloud

  

I have some unit tests for billing and subscription code for my company that started breaking in CI today due to the leap day: https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc/commit/8575029c2b76787...

• Phoenix

  111 20,579 9.3 Elixir

  Peace of mind from prototype to production

  

There was one in the Phoenix Framework (Elixir) about issuing certificates with an invalid end date: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/issues/5737

Interestingly, Azure had this bug some years ago too leading to an outage. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/summary-of-windows-az...

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• date

  24 3,038 4.8 C++

  A date and time library based on the C++11/14/17 <chrono> header

> but I'd be surprised if there was not a modern date library for C++

The standard library now includes . AFAIK: It was mostly written by Howard Hinnant. He now has more date/time libs that expand upon : https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date

• awesome-falsehood

  50 23,015 7.5

  😱 Falsehoods Programmers Believe in

Billing. It always has to be the billing. For a list of all other edge cases, you have: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#readme

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