Tonight's 2 words horror story 

Email parsing.

Tonight's 3 words horror story 

Parsing in Go.

(Rob Pike believes himself too cool for parser generators.)

Tonight's 4 words horror story 

Fixing Golang's OpenPGP implementation.

@vahnj For extra horror, I am/was/will be fixing Golang's OpenPGP lib because I found a bug in Github's OpenPGP integration, pinpointed the problem, had to do 4 round-trip with the support to get them to admit to the bug, and got told “we are using go's crypto/openpgp, if you get a fixed merged upstream we will update to a newer version”.

Way to tell me “we are using that free software, can't be arsed to contribute bugfixes, but if you do our work for free we will do you the honor of using it”

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