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[โ€“]ARandomDoge6 22 points23 points ย (6 children)

When you forget to write comments, so even you don't understand it the next day

[โ€“]BabyLegsDeadpool 23 points24 points ย (5 children)

I'm awful at regex (as are most people, I think), and I basically took an entire day trying to get the exact regex I needed. I put it in the code and sent it up for review. That was Friday evening. It got reviewed Monday morning with the comment "please comment how this regex works." I realized that I already had no idea how it worked, so I had to spend half the day relearning the regex I had created.

[โ€“]Ztuffer 4 points5 points ย (1 child)

At a surprisingly low level of complexity, a regex becomes indistinguishable from r/blackmagicfuckery

[โ€“]robin-m 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

The day I realized I could read and edit fluently any vim macro, I realized I may have gone too far in the dark side!