JJMay 12, 2023
Monica Cellio
That part of bug triage where you say "oh that's easy; I'll just fix that now" and then you realize it's in a regex and one wrong move could accidentally summon Cthulhu or something and you decide someone else should fix it.
May 12, 2023 at 2:46amWeb
Show threadDoug WarrenMay 12, 2023
@cellio
There's so many programmers out there who call you crazy every time you try to do something simple like write machine code directly with a hex editor, but then they'll blithely jump in to edit a regular expression for a valid email address.
Show threadMonica CellioMay 12, 2023
@DougWar40k yeah I know, right? Touch a regex for email addresses? That's crazy talk!
Show threadllewellyMay 12, 2023
@DougWar40k @cellio
the thing about editing machine code in hex is that every arch has those logically organized and easy to remember opcodes that were mostly made in the first version, but then there's all the weird and confusing opcodes shoved into the nooks and crannies of version R5900 when they were smoking hard drugs like SIMD and VLIW
Show threadDoug WarrenMay 12, 2023
@llewelly @cellio
Quite. I was perhaps not being entirely serious about it being a simple thing to do. It was more an attempt to satirize people who think they understand regular expressions.