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Done with an introductory Regular Expressions book. Picked up an advanced one. My physio used keep to telling me, that we needed to loosen and pry my hips open to expand my range of motion. These past few days have been the same, with respect to pattern matching using Regular Expressions. These lessons have been prying my brain open to a new way of thinking about words and characters. From the way things are going, I think I will be spending the better part of next week on Regular Expressions too. It’s still hard work, but it’s getting to be enjoyable hard work now. I need to pace myself better and slow down. I burnt myself out this week. ...

Done with Introducing Regular Expressions, by Michael Fitzgerald. The subtitle, of the book says it all. Unraveling Regular Expressions, Step-by-Step Michael is a funny, patient and pithy author. The book breaks down the basics of Regular Expressions into its components and then walks through explaining them in examples, line by painstaking line. Any book that uses Coleridge to teach me Regular Expressions is awesome, so I’m biased :) Definitely worth a read if you are brand new to the powerful world of RegEx. ...

Done with the Regular Expressions videos I was watching. Now switched to a book. Hope I am done by tomorrow, so I can get on with what I actually want to do!

I rejigged the website today. I try not to do this often, but sometimes it becomes unavoidable, when I listen to some ineffable voice in my head. This time, I hived the blog off to a /blog subsection, leaving the site free for any static remodelling that I’d want to do later. I am trying my darndest to get redirection to work, but so far no joy. If you are a regular reader of my articles, just add a /blog/ after the domain name with any page you want to access. For e.g. https://janusworx.com/on-margin/ is now https://janusworx.com/blog/on-margin/ ...

Only managed a half hour of learning regex. The day seems to have gone to the dogs. Hope to do better tomorrow!

Pleased as punch, with my Miniflux instance. RSS, is how I catch up with everything newsy and techy and with what people I want to hear from, have to say. I love it. I did face one teensy issue with it though. Every time I rebooted my machine, the Miniflux service would fail to start. I would just manually do a systemctl restart miniflux and it would start right up, with that innocent doggy face. ...