One of the benefits of eSpeak-NG is that it doesn't make assumptions like reading "CUP" is Cuban Pesos (hello US OneCore voices) - but the flip side is that eSpeak will read the year 1987 as "nineteen hundred eighty seven". If you'd like it to read that as "nineteen eighty seven" & learn a little #regex on the way, then @fastfinge has you covered with the "Correcting Years With NVDA and Espeak" blog post: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/08/28/…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Tips #Accessibility

Hey Canadian nerds! I have held the domain registration for regex.ca for a very long time. When I lived in Canada it was my primary domain, but I haven't used it for years. Does anyone on the fediverse have a good use for it?

I'm going to release it but if you've got a good pitch I'll pay for a 1 year renewal and then transfer it to your ownership.

[edit: @blakecoverett has put regex.ca to appropriately goofy, human-centric use. huzzah for the Fediverse!]

#canada #regex #perl

#curl sometimes fails to access some servers. In most situations the problem is not in curl itself but on the server side. Example:

1. Fails: curl radissonhotels.com

2. Works: curl -A 'Mozilla/5.0 xx Chrome/119' radissonhotels.com

3. Fails: curl -A 'Mozilla/5.0 xx Chrome/118' radissonhotels.com

4. Fails, too: curl -A 'Mozilla/5.0 xx Chrome/1189' radissonhotels.com

Perhaps they perform #filtering to obtain improved #security? It's hard to tell, but any serious attacker surely knows how to spoof the user agent string and bypass such simple #regex

🆕 blog! “Regular Expressions make me feel like a powerful wizard - and that's not a good thing”

(This is a rant because I'm exhausted after debugging something. If you've made RegEx your whole personality, I'm sorry.) The other day I had to fix a multi-line Regular Expression (RegEx). After a few hours of peering at…

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#ComputerScience #programming #regex

Regular Expressions make me feel like a powerful wizard - and that's not a good thing

(This is a rant because I’m exhausted after debugging something. If you’ve made RegEx your whole personality, I’m sorry.) The other day I had to fix a multi-line Regular Expressio…

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