alt Hacker NewsI love regular expression derivatives. One neat thing about regular expression derivatives is they are continuation-passing style for regular expressions. The derivative is "what to do next" after seeing a character, which is the continuation of the re. It's a nice conceptual connection if you're into programming language theory.
Low-key hate the lack of capitalization on the blog, which made me stumble over every sentence start. Great blog post a bit marred by unnecessary divergence from standard written English.
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While i completely understand it, the lack of capitalization is just an indication that a human wrote this, it has to be imperfect
i see enough slop and Look At Me on a daily basis. i don't want it to look like an ad or a LinkedIn post in 2026.
It's so uncomfortable to read.
Why do people do this? They capitalize names, so clearly their shift key works. Do they do it feel special or like some sort of rebel?