String parsing Memes

Ghost? Fine. Zombie? Whatever. Nuclear war? Slightly concerning. But regex? PURE TERROR . That incomprehensible string of brackets, slashes, and special characters is the true horror story of programming. You start with a simple pattern match and end up summoning an eldritch abomination that somehow passes all your tests but fails spectacularly in production. The character falling off their chair and literally dying is the most accurate representation of regex debugging I've ever seen. The tombstone is for your sanity, not your body.

Oh the beautiful tragedy of regex! First post: "You have A problem. Regex is the solution. Now you have 2 problems." Second post: "There was this saying: the plural of regex is regrets." It's like trying to fix your bike with a flamethrower. Sure, the original problem is gone, but now your bike is on fire and you're questioning all your life choices! The regex rabbit hole claims another victim... *plays tiny violin*

THE HORROR! THE ABSOLUTE TRAGEDY! Someone's marketing team just discovered why camelCase and proper spacing are the HOLY GRAIL of programming! The hashtag #SUSANALBUMPARTY was supposed to celebrate Susan Boyle's album release, but instead created the most catastrophic parsing error in social media history! This is what happens when you skip the code review, people! The difference between SusanAlbumParty and SusAnalBumParty is literally just proper capitalization standing between a music celebration and... something ENTIRELY different. Spaces and camelCase would have saved lives here, but nooo, hashtags don't allow spaces and someone skipped Naming Conventions 101. This is why developers drink.