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Make Python scripts smarter with regex: 5 practical RE examples

If you work with strings in your Python scripts and you're writing obscure logic to process them, then you need to look into ...
GitHub

URL Regex Replace Chrome Extension

The URL Regex Replace is a Chrome extension that allows users to perform regex find and replace on the current tab's URL. This extension is useful for modifying URLs, testing, or redirecting to ...
IEEE

Using Selective Memoization to Defeat Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

Abstract: Regular expressions (regexes) are a denial of service vector in most mainstream programming languages. Recent empirical work has demonstrated that up to 10% of regexes have super-linear ...
GitHub

Replace the legacy Windows on-screen keyboard with a more modern virtual input method!

Since Windows 8, Microsoft has been building a modern virtual input method for touch-based devices inspired by smartphone conventions. Unfortunately, as with many parts of Windows, legacy components ...
Rolling Stone

Billy Strings Makes His Debut on ‘Tiny Desk’ After Sending Audition Tape: ‘It Only Took 12 More Years’

Michigan bluegrass phenom Billy Strings and his band stopped by NPR’s Tiny Desk for a performance more than a decade in the making. Backed by his band — Alex Hargreaves on fiddle, backing vocalist ...