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davidmorris··on Sending notifications programmatically: let me count the ways
Yes sure! E.164 is the international standard as set by the ITU. Its a bit like an RFC. The original can be found in English here: https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-E.164-201011-I/en

The normal public telephone numbers we use are "International ITU-T E.164-number for geographic areas" and all E.164 numbers consist of the digit 0 to 9 only and no other characters. Spaces, symbols prefixes or suffixes do not form part of the number.

Section 12 explains that when a local code should be called in order to make an international call (e.g. dialling 00 from the UK or 011 from the USA) then E.123 suggests using the symbol + before the E.164 number. This symbol can be used when displaying the number to a human so the human can understand that they should replace the + with their local code to call internationally.

There's also a bit in section B.7 which describes CLIs and denotes that a CLI Should only be "the full international ITU-T E.164-number, i.e., country code (CC), national destination code (NDC) and subscriber number (SN). No other information, such as prefixes or symbols (e.g., "+"), should be included"

davidmorris··on Sending notifications programmatically: let me count the ways
Hi, it's only a small thing, but E.164 format does not include the +. If it includes the plus then it is E.123 format. The Twilio page explaining E.164 formatting is wrong.
davidmorris··on Launch HN: Station (YC W18) – One place for all your web apps
I've installed station and created a distinct application password for station in my google apps suite. However when I try to authenticate in station then the app password is not accepted and only the password to my whole google account is accepted.

The pop up box for station login doesn't show me which website it is authenticating via and if I try the "copy current pages URL" in the authentication pop up then the URL is not copied (at least not in ubuntu 18.04).