Month: April 2011

Free Web Accessible Visual Regular Expression Generator

Free Web Accessible Visual Regular Expression Generator

Mark is a programmer who hates writing regular expressions. So he wrote a kind of visual regular expression generator that starts with the string to be searched, identifies recognizable patterns in it, and lets you select those you want. Then it outputs a working (albeit probably inelegant) regular expression to get the job done. The commentariat over at txt2re.com is somewhat predictably divided between grateful regex amateurs and annoyed experts. [via Boing Boing]

How-To: Silk Shirt Refashion

Alli of One Pearl Button shares how she transformed a thrifted silk shirt into a stylish top. When I came across this silk shirt on the dollar rack, I knew immediately that it was coming home with me. The fabric was thick, soft, and beautiful – it was clearly the highest quality silk, and I […]

Open-sourced blueprints for civilization

Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters that for the last two years has been creating the Global Village Construction Set, an open source, low-cost, high performance technological platform that allows for the easy, DIY fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a sustainable civilization with […]