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workeffortwaste··on Show HN: The Typing of the RegEX
It's using the built in .match() to parse your answers.
workeffortwaste··on Show HN: The Typing of the RegEX
If you simply brute force by typing the words exactly puzzles you won't get the bonuses.
workeffortwaste··on Show HN: The Typing of the RegEX
Thanks for the heads up, I'll see what I can do.
workeffortwaste··on Show HN: The Typing of the RegEX
Thank you.
workeffortwaste··on Show HN: The Typing of the RegEX
Trying to play it on mobile! Okay that's something I hadn't expected.
workeffortwaste··on Show HN: The Typing of the RegEX
I've now made it clearer why /\S/g is different from /.*/

Try on the match start screen to see the different visual feedback between the two.

workeffortwaste··on Show HN: The Typing of the RegEX
I've added match boundary markers now so it should be clearer why your RegEX might not be right.

I've also enabled some of my debugging stuff in the console for those who want to dive deeper into expected outputs of certain puzzles.

workeffortwaste··on Show HN: The Typing of the RegEX
Doing that method disables the bonuses.

Getting bonuses means more points and more time added to the clock.

workeffortwaste··on Show HN: The Typing of the RegEX
/wordone|wordtwo/g

There's a video of it being played here: https://youtu.be/da0GyuwaY_Y

workeffortwaste··on Show HN: The Typing of the RegEX
Video of it being played:

https://youtu.be/da0GyuwaY_Y

workeffortwaste··on Show HN: The Typing of the RegEX
Every word but the marked words, you can see an example of one being solved in this video.

https://youtu.be/da0GyuwaY_Y

workeffortwaste··on Show HN: Tapefear – A new way to discover hidden gems on Spotify
I accidentally left a cronjob running for a decade scraping niche music sites and cross referencing the data with Spotify.

This tool picks random selections from that dataset. The job is still running so you can see new items added to the database in the latest section.

workeffortwaste··on Show HN: Doom-scroller.js – Helping you to avoid endlessly doomscrolling
Now available as a browser extension.