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Search and replace in multiple files with regular expressions: https://www.abareplace.com

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abareplace··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
* enter the current and the new names,

* turn on the Match whole word and Match case modes,

* review the found occurrences;

* press the Replace button.

https://www.abareplace.com/blog/blog_rename_method/

Disclaimer: I wrote this program.

abareplace··on Everything I wish I knew when learning C
Agreed. Complex declarations (e.g., array of pointers to functions) are non-intuitive:

http://www.ericgiguere.com/articles/reading-c-declarations.h...

https://cdecl.org/

I learned this from the book Expert C Programming by Peter van der Linden.

abareplace··on State of CSS
orange after space-between should be deleted
abareplace··on It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++
No, they don't. We typically use the UTF-16 functions (with the W suffix).
abareplace··on Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?
From my experience as a developer, they rewrite frontends in React because it's cool or because their boss said them to do so. Nobody asks if React is really needed in this project and what would be the best solution.

For example, my bank now has an online banking written in React. It's more buggy than the previous version (e.g., the back button does not work; the payment UI is quite chaotic), but they can boast that they use a modern technology. I doubt that a single page application provides any benefit for this task. Their competitor still uses HTML forms and they work perfectly.

This also reminds me of VB6 era. Back then, many programs were distributed with the runtime and/or an installer that was larger than the actual executable. The history repeats now with the bloated web frameworks.

abareplace··on Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?
The thing is, most web sites are not Facebook. React is usually an overkill; you don't have so many moving parts in a typical web UI.
abareplace··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
I wrote a tool for replacing text in multiple files with regular expressions under Windows. Currently, it's making less than $500/month, but there were months when it made more. It's one of the first regex tools that displays the search results immediately, without pressing a Search button.

https://www.abareplace.com/

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