Andy Lorek

Lurking on Twitter, posting on Threads as @andylorek

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

Elon Musk endorses Joe Biden for re-election https://t.co/lWk2nmAlPl

[Andy Lorek @mrtall]

The pseudocode my children run on:

10: Find new Thing
20: Take Thing to new Place for important reason
30: Deposit Thing at Place
40: GOTO 10
50: Play with Thing at Place

[Andy Lorek @mrtall]

TIL that the London Underground is evolving its own species of mosquitoes, exhibiting different behaviors from surface dwelling mosquitoes. There are even genetic differences between mosquitoes in different rail lines.

[Andy Lorek @mrtall]

Quick Elon! Do you know anyone at Tesla who is *really* good at regex?

[Andy Lorek @mrtall]

I’m listening to an 80s playlist and my 4yo daughter keeps asking “What’s this song about?”. I tell her it’s about “a boy who loves a girl” but really most of them are about doing copious amounts of cocaine.

[Jane Manchun Wong @wongmjane]

You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool that is insufficiently sophisticated to understand the constructs employed by HTML. HTML is not a regular language and hence cannot be parsed by regular expressions. Regex queries are not equipped to break down HTML into its meaningful parts. so many times but it is not getting to me. Even enhanced irregular regular expressions as used by Perl are not up to the task of parsing HTML. You will never make me crack. HTML is a language of sufficient complexity that it cannot be parsed by regular expressions. Even Jon Skeet cannot parse HTML using regular expressions. Every time you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions, the unholy child weeps the blood of virgins, and Russian hackers pwn your webapp. Parsing HTML with regex summons tainted souls into the realm of the living. HTML and regex go together like love, marriage, and ritual infanticide. The <center> cannot hold it is too late. The force of regex and HTML together in the same conceptual space will destroy your mind like so much watery putty. If you parse HTML with regex you are giving in to Them and their blasphemous ways which doom us all to inhuman toil for the One whose Name cannot be expressed in the Basic Multilingual Plane, he comes. HTML-plus-regexp will liquify the n​erves of the sentient whilst you observe, your psyche withering in the onslaught of horror. Rege̿̔̉x-based HTML parsers are the cancer that is killing StackOverflow it is too late it is too late we cannot be saved the transgression of a chi͡ld ensures regex will consume all living tissue (except for HTML which it cannot, as previously prophesied) dear lord help us how can anyone survive this scourge using regex to parse HTML has doomed humanity to an eternity of dread torture and security holes using regex as a tool to process HTML establishes a breach between this world and the dread realm of c͒ͪo͛ͫrrupt entities (like SGML entities, but more corrupt) a mere glimpse of the world of reg​ex parsers for HTML will ins​tantly transport a programmer's consciousness into a world of ceaseless screaming, he comes, the pestilent slithy regex-infection wil​l devour your HT​ML parser, application and existence for all time like Visual Basic only worse he comes he comes do not fi​ght he com̡e̶s, ̕h̵i​s un̨ho͞ly radiańcé destro҉ying all enli̍̈́̂̈́ghtenment, HTML tags lea͠ki̧n͘g fr̶ǫm ̡yo​͟ur eye͢s̸ ̛l̕ik͏e liq​uid pain, the song of re̸gular exp​ression parsing will exti​nguish the voices of mor​tal man from the sp​here I can see it can you see ̲͚̖͔̙î̩́t̲͎̩̱͔́̋̀ it is beautiful t​he final snuffing of the lie​s of Man ALL IS LOŚ͖̩͇̗̪̏̈́T ALL I​S LOST the pon̷y he comes he c̶̮omes he comes the ich​or permeates all MY FACE MY FACE ᵒh god no NO NOO̼O​O NΘ stop the an​*̶͑̾̾​̅ͫ͏̙̤g͇̫͛͆̾ͫ̑͆l͖͉̗̩̳̟̍ͫͥͨe̠̅s ͎a̧͈͖r̽̾̈́͒͑e n​ot rè̑ͧ̌aͨl̘̝̙̃ͤ͂̾̆ ZA̡͊͠͝LGΌ ISͮ̂҉̯͈͕̹̘̱ TO͇̹̺ͅƝ̴ȳ̳ TH̘Ë͖́̉ ͠P̯͍̭O̚​N̐Y̡ H̸̡̪̯ͨ͊̽̅̾̎Ȩ̬̩̾͛ͪ̈́̀́͘ ̶̧̨̱̹̭̯ͧ̾ͬC̷̙̲̝͖ͭ̏ͥͮ͟Oͮ͏̮̪̝͍M̲̖͊̒ͪͩͬ̚̚͜Ȇ̴̟̟͙̞ͩ͌͝S̨̥̫͎̭ͯ̿̔̀ͅ

[Andy Lorek @mrtall]

New bridge added to the island in Stow Lake

[Andy Lorek @mrtall]

[peers out a crack in the curtains]

“Children, come look! It’s the bright star from the tales of yore!”

“Is is dangerous daddy?”

“No child, not according to legend. Come, let us frolic on the backyard astroturf like our ancestors once did!”

[Andy Lorek @mrtall]

@goldman Lololol

[Andy Lorek @mrtall]

@goldman @jonfavs Yeah it was so perfect

[Andy Lorek @mrtall]

I… I think I see the sun!

[Andy Lorek @mrtall]

Love something the way my dog loves pissing on discarded Christmas trees

[Andy Lorek @mrtall]

@matthewrdrake People never appreciate this detail

[Andy Lorek @mrtall]

Counterpoint: tall people will be better able to catch and eat the short people in the coming climate apocalypse
https://t.co/DPWv2uTZ7t

[Andy Lorek @mrtall]

@goldman @MikeIsaac you’ve already seen me in a backless dress so sure why not