#parsers
Markdown is good, but there is no standard defining how to parse it correctly... GitHub has at least two different parsers (one for files, another one for comments)
February 18, 2026 at 5:48 PM
i can pinpoint learning lpeg as the exact moment i started down this path once i learned writing parsers it was over
February 18, 2026 at 3:42 AM
at the same time I was demonstrating what could be done with parsers/interpreters based on simpler text descriptions to achieve the same outcomes
February 17, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Plus if you put "Evobayesian Probabilistic Parsers" inside of video games, much of this conversation about whether cloud or aerith is really conscious goes away.

Until they reprogram themself of course.
February 17, 2026 at 8:52 PM
In fact if you combined evolutionary bayesian models with probabilistic text parsers, you could make video game enemies that reprogram themselves based on what has the highest priority.

This would be great in Turn Based Tactical RPGs.

Run into incedent you didnt account for? The Evobayesian model
February 17, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Kinophobia, from @brunodias.bsky.social, is a text parser mystery about uncovering the secrets of an old mystery studio. I am not one for Text parsers, but those who are speak very highly of it!

brunodias.itch.io/kinophobia
Kinophobia by Bruno Dias
Explore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates of its tormented souls. End a curse inscribed in blood and celluloid.
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February 17, 2026 at 8:02 PM
February 17, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Woke up thinking about parsers/tokenizers/verilog and boobs,

It sure is a way to start the day
February 17, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Yeah they just have automatic text parsers look for words and hide your post from view if they suspect it has content against their ToS. Which grows its list of prohibited subject matter every year!
February 16, 2026 at 10:03 PM
February 16, 2026 at 9:09 PM
🤺 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲: 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗫𝗦𝗦
If you enjoy parser differential issues, you are going to love this exploit. Don't think "It's a CTF challenge" or "It's just an XSS", read between the lines to find the real gold. blog.voorivex.team/when-two-par....
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February 16, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Which kind of parsers are you interested in? Complex stuff usually doesn't play well with scripted PowerShell, but I could see something for binary PowerShell modules in C#
February 15, 2026 at 11:46 PM
LLMs are simply parsers, you could add the entire knowledge of the universe to it's dataset and it would still be a natural language parser that understands nothing other than matching words. We do not have the technology to create anything that could achieve self awareness.
February 15, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Optique 0.10.0 is out—the largest release yet for this type-safe TypeScript CLI parser.

Highlights: runtime context system, config file integration, man page generation, inter-option dependencies, 11 network value parsers.

Last pre-release before 1.0.0.
Optique 0.10.0: Runtime context, config files, man pages, and network parsers · dahlia optique · Discussion #108
We're excited to announce Optique 0.10.0, the largest release yet! This release introduces a runtime context system for composing external data sources, a config file integration package, man page ...
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February 15, 2026 at 2:02 PM
🛑 Stop writing fragile Regex.
Use frozen LLMs for unstructured data extraction. My tutorial on using Vertex AI + Gemini 1.5 Flash to replace parsers.

discuss.google.dev/t/stop-writi...
#VertexAI #Gemini #Dev
Stop Writing Fragile Regex: Automating Unstructured Data Extraction with Vertex AI (Gemini 1.5 Flash
Handling unstructured data (invoices, emails, messy logs) has always been the bottleneck of automation. For years, we relied on complex Regular Expressions (Regex) pipelines that broke every time a ve...
discuss.google.dev
February 14, 2026 at 7:42 PM
I should never be allowed to write parsers again. For my own health, I hate doing this
February 14, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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February 14, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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February 14, 2026 at 10:36 AM
(oh tbc, it's that LTSes, logics, and TRSes are all equivalent; but also they subsume all of the above

it is NOT the case afaik that parsers, type systems, and effect systems subsume LTSes, logics, and TRSes, tho that may be true, it'd... just be a bit tortured imo)
February 13, 2026 at 11:32 PM
parsers, type systems, effect systems, all of it,

(see also: labeled transition systems, modal logics, a few other equivalent things...)

it's really kinda fucking beautiful when u think about it

almost brings a tear to my eye!
February 13, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Long chat with Al Lowe on Sierra game days. Why constant player death was part of the joke. and how stakes make even text parsers unforgettable spillhistorie.no/202... #gaming #geekculture #author
Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney - Spillhistorie.no
You know he did other things than Larry, right?
spillhistorie.no
February 13, 2026 at 2:12 PM
The early modern period saw the release of crude adventure games with basic text parsers, spreading via increased direct trade with India and China.
February 12, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Heads up, #SUSE homelab and enterprise admins: the February GLib update (suse‑su‑2026:0458‑1) is a bundled memory safety release.
We're looking at integer→underflow in Base64, content type parsers, and Unicode norm. Read more: 👉 tinyurl.com/5cxtfsbn #Security
Critical SUSE glib2 Update: 4 CVEs Patched – Integer Overflows Threaten Enterprise Linux Memory Integrity
Blog com notícias sobre, Linux, Android, Segurança , etc
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February 12, 2026 at 2:22 PM
bsky.app/profile/park...

It’s mainly things like this— and past that, you can run a lot of text parsers on equipment as utilitarian as a Raspberry Pi. You have some fundamental misunderstandings about how all of this works. It’s really not as simple as you seem to perceive it to be.
This is an interesting piece about how NYT is using AI in its newsroom. (tl;dr: they generate transcripts of the podcasts they're tracking, those transcripts gets summarized, those summaries get delivered in a report to journalists)
When actress Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad became a culture war flashpoint last summer, Times journalists noticed, in part through the reports, that right-wing podcast figures were shaping the backlash. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...
February 12, 2026 at 5:14 AM
they're either god parsers or the worst people on the planet (doubly so tank/healer)
February 12, 2026 at 5:04 AM