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ryanblock / @ryan tweetbot regex.md
Created August 29, 2012 02:27
How Tweetbot and regex made my Twitter replies usable again (filed under: #wrongryan)

How Tweetbot and regex made my Twitter replies usable again

As it turns out, most normal humans are incapable of learning to use Twitter @ replies. And in case you don't follow me on Twitter: yes, my handle (@ryan) gets a lot of erroneous mentions. (The most amusing, random ones I've even taken to retweeting under the #wrongryan hashtag.)

Then Tweetbot -- and its ability to use regex as Twitter filters -- came along. Here's how the Tapbots guys and some regular expressions single-handedly made my Twitter replies usable again.

Notes and caveats

  • I'm not a regex expert. Far from it. I suck at regex, actually. If you have suggestions for improvements, please leave them below!
  • Some regex may look a little sloppy, but in actuality was written because TweetBot for Mac's regex filter support is very early, and things like repeats (expression{3,}) are buggy. So everything below should work without crashing Tweetbot for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
  • Obvious, but not everyone should make use of every filter b
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mhart / removed.bin.txt
Last active March 6, 2020 09:49
Binaries and libraries removed from the Lambda 2019-05-14 update (refers to all runtimes except nodejs10.x which is opt-in to a completely new OS)
/bin/dash
/bin/dnsdomainname
/bin/domainname
/bin/dumpkeys
/bin/hostname
/bin/ipcalc
/bin/iptables-xml
/bin/kbd_mode
/bin/loadkeys
/bin/mountpoint