Being a bit smarter on the Tompson's construction to reduce the number of epsilon transitions and redundant states generated. Inspired by swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/...

Before/after comparison in images

I have no word

Adds support for bracketed character classes like `[a-zA-Z_]`

Built a simple regex engine this week, and also threw together a visualizer site

Visualizer website: miniregex.lesleylai.info
Repo: codeberg.org/Lesley/minir...

Whose cat walks like this?

I don't even know which AdBlocker filter to use to block this now unless I want to block all warning banners.

At least I am migrating away from this hell site now. I started using GitHub shortly after I started learning coding. It feels like the end of an era.

Made some updates to my old grass renderer after reading a recent blog post on grass rendering. Clumping the grass with noise and adding specular highlights makes it look much better

hexaquo.at/pages/grass-...

Adopted a new cat. His name is Timo

I spent a few hours creating an end-to-end testing driver for my C compiler project. Initially, I considered using Python but opted for Rust instead. It turned out to be surprisingly well-suited for this kind of "scripting" task.

#pldev

github.com/LesleyLai/mc...

Bitten by strict aliasing (I should know better rather than writing codes like this)

I will put this old photo here