Coincidence. I hadn’t seen this.
I got my examples mostly from looking through https://github.com/jackbearheart/email-addresses/blob/master... and reading the EBNF in RFC 5322.
Will watch your video!
Your talk is a lot better than my quiz.
Interestingly you say comments aren’t valid in the middle of the local part but I thought they are, and the parser I used agreed. Maybe obsolete behaviour?
I didn’t realise quotes could be dot separated but it makes sense now I look back over the EBNF! That’s really cool.
Sorry I made you think I’d stolen your content, I can totally see why you’d think that. I promise you that was the first time I watched that video.
Re:"Email is Easy" email address quiz
by Dilettante_ on Sunday August 17, 2025 @03:51PM
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Same guy made https://jsdate.wtf, also posted to HN, and also containing material from someone else's talk I'm pretty sure.
Edit: I was wrong!
Similar to this I got my examples for jsdate.wtf through reading the v8 date parsing code and experimentation. Wasn’t aware there was a talk with similar examples for JS dates, would be interested to see it.
Re:"Email is Easy" email address quiz
by Dilettante_ on Sunday August 17, 2025 @04:02PM
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My bad, I was thinking about a much older talk[1], maybe something about the theme activated the same neurons. Sorry for making an accusation like that for what turns out was no reason.
It’s okay <3 it doesn’t surprise me that both of these topics have been covered before, and both are fairly small input spaces so there’s bound to be similarities or overlap.
I do love Gary’s “wat” talk, it was certainly part of the inspiration to make these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxX81WmXjPg
Maybe it's just a coincidence, but a shoutout would have been nice if not.