I seem to have deleted part of the title. The article is titled

>Regex For Noobs (like me!) - an illustrated guide

So I am painfully aware that I'm a noob too, I even call myself one! I wrote this little piece because I felt that regex can be kind of intimidating for a lot of people but that it's actually pretty OK and fun once you get the hang of it. To get people over that initial barrier is what I aim to do with the "guide".

People who are new to a topic and just learned a new thing often do a better job at explaining things without requiring prior knowledge. Experts in a topic often see things as trivial and write introductions that exclude a fraction of potential readers that lack a skill.

I can recommend the articles by Julia Evans[1], which are pretty much like this. She works on a problem that is new to her and describes how she solved it or how she learned something new.

[1]: https://jvns.ca/

It's a great way to reinforce your own learning, share what you just learned, and get great feedback (many of the comments in this thread)

Because noobs wouldn't know to find problems ;)