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What Surprised Us Writing an ICO and CUR Parser by Hand

What Surprised Us Writing an ICO and CUR Parser by Hand

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My PPTX converter treated slide order as filename order — and learned that decks lie about their own spine

My PPTX converter treated slide order as filename order — and learned that decks lie about their own spine

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My universal document converter learned that 'auto-detect' is a lie when the file extension lies

My universal document converter learned that 'auto-detect' is a lie when the file extension lies

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A contract.pdf that was secretly a DOCX broke my file-type auto-detection

A contract.pdf that was secretly a DOCX broke my file-type auto-detection

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My universal document API ran the PDF parser on a Word file — the extension was lying

My universal document API ran the PDF parser on a Word file — the extension was lying

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DOCX, PPTX, XLSX and EPUB all start with the same magic bytes — auto-detect means asking the ZIP what it is

DOCX, PPTX, XLSX and EPUB all start with the same magic bytes — auto-detect means asking the ZIP what it is

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