Put οΏ½ in random text fields so that developers are always wondering if they screwed up parsing somewhere.
@xssfox STICK TO CROSS SITE SCRIPTING YOU MONSTER
@xssfox don't forget to urlurlurlurlencodeencodeencodeencode for data resiliency http%2525253A%2525252F%2525252Fdiscatte.github.io

@discatte @xssfox I had a job posting that septuple escaped '(' and ')' from the job title to create the URL slug.

I had to file it, and my state's firewall decided it was malicious and blocked me from adding it to my list. πŸ˜…

@xssfox I like showing people's projects to my friend José (null) [object Object]
@xssfox I occasionally end my emails with a J, just to screw with people that I know will notice
@groxx @xssfox :) (but only in wingdings)
@xssfox @lisamelton and sprinkle in some zalgo text, while you’re at it

@xssfox

Strong chaotic neutral energy here.

@xssfox
Ooh! Elon, are you listening?
Someone came up with a new name for your next kid.
@xssfox One can still improve "Put οΏ½ in random text fields" - in text fields or labels that always have the same text, put οΏ½ into random places, different ones each time.
Parsing errors suck but intermittent, seemingly random parsing errors from same input drive devs insane! Muhaha.
@xssfox
Always try to keep the οΏ½ at the beginning or end of your string
@xssfox Wow, that's pure evil...!
As the saying goes: life is a battle between developers trying to develop idiot-proof software and the universe trying to produce bigger idiots. This is a lovely new front of this very real and important conflict.
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Is another good one.
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@xssfox 😁😁😁😁😁
@xssfox I just assume you copied something from word and your smart quotes got messed up
@xssfox That's evil, and I like it xD
@xssfox That's straight up evil. I love it.
I have had customers put an actual backspace character into a text field.
One of the recent problems I had to deal with was a customer who had data with non-standard newlines. Their data contained a \r\r\n sequence.

One of our customers once delivered some data with an encoding error that I could only explain by mistaking one Windows specific encoding for one DOS specific encoding (or maybe it was the other way around).

We aren't using DOS or Windows, so in that particular case it was pretty clear that it wasn't us who had screwed up the data.

@xssfox create yourself an email account firstname.lastname@{some domain looking like a placeholder. lorem-ipsum.it or something}, or emailgoeshere@domain. Always register usernames like user1 or testuser, ...

Yes, I fell victim to one of the students in one of our fourses that had firstname.lastname as username and email address at our university, making me debug the apparently broken CSV reader module of my grading helper application.