In case you’re wondering about the title of this post, here’s an explainer.
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In case you’re wondering about the title of this post, here’s an explainer.
For me, regular expressions are like the rules for boardgames that I don’t play that often: As the game progresses, I understand the rules and think I have a firm grasp on them, and when the game gets put away and I don’t play it for a while, I forget almost everything.
These days, I keep a couple of “interactive notebooks” with working code featuring useful regexes, paired with notes written in Markdown:
I don’t agree with his takes on masks (guess) and testoterone (a bit too Jordan Peterson/Joe Rogan-adjacent for my liking), but I think he’s spot on with the observation above.