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This blog post probably makes more sense if you read the earlier blog post first, about the 32bit time_t doomsday coming in year 2038.

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/01/19/time/

Discussed on HN 4 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34496287 (>130 comments)

This may be enough to make the Perl-style regexes comprehensible:

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlre#Character-Classes-and-other-...

Sounds like a great idea, not "bad form" at all. I think it would be a great help to others in the position you're in, as well as worth doing just for your own self edification, without publishing it.

This may help get you started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

Ask ChatGPT to explain it to you.

There's no denying that ChatGPT would do better than some HN commenters.