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- [Falsehoods about Versions](https://github.com/xenoterracide/falsehoods/blob/master/versions.md) - Attributing an identity to a software release might be harder than thought.
- [Falsehoods about Build Systems](https://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/174763.html) - Building software is hard. Building software that builds software is harder.
- [Falsehoods about Undefined Behavior](https://predr.ag/blog/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-undefined-behavior/) - Invoking undefined behavior can cause *anything* to happen, for a much broader definition of "anything" than one might think.
- [Myths about CPU Caches](https://software.rajivprab.com/2018/04/29/myths-programmers-believe-about-cpu-caches/) - Misconceptions about caches often lead to false assertions, especially when it comes to concurrency and race conditions.
- [Falsehoods about null pointers](https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-null-pointers/) - Null pointers are even more cursed than pointers in general, and provenance already makes pointers quite complicated.
- [Falsehoods about CSVs](https://donatstudios.com/Falsehoods-Programmers-Believe-About-CSVs) - While RFC4180 to exists, it is far from definitive and goes largely ignored.
- [Falsehoods about Package Managers](https://kdeldycke.github.io/meta-package-manager/falsehoods.html) - Covers package and their managers.
- [Falsehoods about Testing](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/falsehoods-testers-believe/1371) - An attempt to establish a list of falsehoods about testing.
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- [Falsehoods about garbage collection](https://paul.bone.id.au/blog/2018/10/19/gc-falsehoods/) - Misconceptions about the predictability and performance of garbage collection.
- [Myths about File Paths](https://yakking.branchable.com/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-file-paths/) - Diversity of file-systems and OSes makes file paths a little harder than we might think of.
- [The weird world of Windows file paths](https://www.fileside.app/blog/2023-03-17_windows-file-paths/) - “On any Unix-derived system, a path is an admirably simple thing: if it starts with a `/`, it's a path. Not so on Windows.”
- [Myths about CPU Caches](https://software.rajivprab.com/2018/04/29/myths-programmers-believe-about-cpu-caches/) - Misconceptions about caches often lead to false assertions, especially when it comes to concurrency and race conditions.
- [Myths about `/dev/urandom`](https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom) - There are a few things about `/dev/urandom` and `/dev/random` that are repeated again and again. Still they are false.
- [Facts about State Machines](https://codeberg.org/catseye/The-Dossier/src/branch/master/article/Facts-about-State-Machines/README.md) - State machines are often misunderstood and under-applied.
- [Hi! My name is…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIebelIpdYk) - This talk could have been named *falsehoods about usernames (and other identifiers)*.