Personal blog of Stein Magnus Jodal Zola 2026-10-26T00:00:00+00:00 https://jodal.dev/tags/biip/atom.xml 2026-10-26T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-26T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://jodal.dev/2026/10/26/barcode-parsing/

<p>Barcodes are everywhere.</p> <p>They’re so omnipresent that we easily take them for granted, and rarely think about their existence and how they really work. Meanwhile, barcodes are extremely important for all kinds of logistics, the foundation of modern society.</p> <p>This post is an introduction to barcode parsing, and to all the corner cases that make it a bad idea to write your own barcode parser.</p>