I also love his explanation of "How Regexes Work": https://perl.plover.com/Regex/article.html https://perl.plover.com/Regex/article.html Before reading it, I c

I also love his explanation of "How Regexes Work": https://perl.plover.com/Regex/article.html https://perl.plover.com/Regex/article.html Before reading it, I could write regexes with decent success, but I was never 100% comfortable that they'd do quite what I expected. After, the fog cleared, and I felt like I finally understood what I was asking the computer to do when I wrote a regex. Also, whenever I think of state machines, in my mind I still see pennies moving around on circles. (FYI, it was written for a Perl programmer audience, but it doesn't involve much Perl.)