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If you’re trying to register for a Bank of Ireland account and the form fails silently, don’t worry, it’s simple to find out what happened and fix it.

1. Open up developer tools on your browser
2. Copy the failed regular expression from the console
3. Put it, and your generated password into Regexr (regexr.com)

And voila, as you can see the problem with mine* was that it hit the 16 character limit which was, to keep things exciting, not mentioned on the page.

Simples.

What muppets!

* Don’t worry, it’s a different one now.

#capitalism #mainstream #mediocrity #BankOfIreland #banks #design #web #dev #ireland

Screenshot of me debugging why the password my password manager generated was being silently rejected by Bank of Ireland’s registration form.

RegExr: Learn, Build, & Test RegEx

RegExr is an online tool to learn, build, & test Regular Expressions (RegEx / RegExp).
RegExr
#capitalism #dev #design #web #ireland #banks #mediocrity #mainstream #bankofireland

“Enterprise-level developers” working on mission critical banking software don’t make people have to open up developer tools to see the regular expression error on a registration form challenge 2026.

It’s not rocket science, folks.

*smdh*

#capitalism #mainstream #mediocrity

Screenshot of the registration page for Bank of Ireland. The form has no errors and fails silently. If you open up developer tools, two “Pattern attribute value <long regular expression>: invalid character in character class” errors tell a different story.
#capitalism #mediocrity #mainstream

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