65. Times That Do Not Exist

• Your Calendrical Fallacy Is...
• iOS 11.2.6 DateFormatter.date returns nil for cities that observe Brasília Summer Time
• Pub quiz question,"How many time zones are there"
  • I was still explaining to my fellow pub attendees about the complexities of time zones by the time the answer came around
• Where is the extra 75 seconds coming from?
• I think a great interview question is“how do you compute the length of a string?” If the candidate responds by asking“what do you mean by‘length’ and what do you mean by‘string’?” they pass —  @txsector
• Big-O Notation
• Ole Begemann: Strings in Swift 4 (explains how family emoji are composed of person emoji + joiners)
• Ligatures in Unicode (Wikipedia)
• Accidentally Quadratic
• Soroush: Safety in Swift
• Spoiler: Soroush’s Word Ladder Solution

Backspacing emoji composed of multiple codepoints in Google Docs: