(Now that I think about it, scanning for digits in a wall of tea tin text is like the brain’s natural regex, and I think that’s beautiful.)

My rule is that if it’s a personal project, but I learn some regex and bookdown along the way, it still counts as professional development.

Just figured out a regex solution to something in under ten minutes. Watch out Friday, nothing can stop me now.

I love learning more about regular expressions except the part where it’s always in response to some mistake I’ve made.