Tootfinder

Like global search and replace but don’t like surprises?
Check out serpl – a handy little command-line app that gives you a visual preview of the changes you are about to make. You can even go in and remove the replacements you don’t want from the source previews. The regex support appears to be basic, however (I couldn’t get a negative lookbehind to work).

I’ve been messing around with Apple Shortcuts lately and was pleased to see that Regular Expressions are supported.

from my link log —
What 127.5 million forms can tell you about the state of front-end regex input validation on the Web.
https://amandastjerna.se/blog/127-million-forms/
saved 2026-03-02

KI generierter Code macht ja den Menschen nicht nur dümmer. Ich brauchte heute ein Tool um aus Config-Dateien sensible Informationen zu maskieren. U.a. auch Domains. Hatte erwartet, dass da ein paar RegEx's eingebaut werden. Stattdessen kam Codex mit https://publicsuffix.org/ um die Ecke. Kannte ich nicht. War d…

Do you use LLMs to generate regular expressions? We do, too! Do you *review* your regexes? Is that frustrating? How can we put humans in the loop better, doing relatively few, meaningful tasks? Please try out our new tool PICK:regex, available for VSCode!
https://blog.brownplt.org/2025/12/11/p

Has anybody reading this worked on Google’s RE2 C regex library? I have an amusement for you if so.

OH on slack: sometimes you think, "Oh, a regex could solve this." Now you have two ~problems~ administrators on your github repos
#devoops #sre #infosec