Wow really cool! Genuinely fun, and educational at the same time.
One usability request: after firing a regex, could the text box be cleared? It's not hard to hit Ctrl+A and start typing again, but it does add a bit of friction. (I can send a PR)
This is fair, although I ask for it to be dark themed to match what I think was the style of typing game I remember growing up with (it's been a while). Bumped up the font though.
Not so useless. In my experience LLMs are about 50/50 on making a regex that actually works and covers the cases you asked it for. Even less when you get into cases needing advanced features like backreferences and lookahead.
This looks like something I would vibe code with Google's Gemini. Interesting concept.
Wow really cool! Genuinely fun, and educational at the same time.
One usability request: after firing a regex, could the text box be cleared? It's not hard to hit Ctrl+A and start typing again, but it does add a bit of friction. (I can send a PR)
Nice game!
We made a similar game several years ago for the Pyweek game competition, but there wasn't the fun "letter invaders" style that this one has.
https://pyweek.org/e/RegExExpress/
I really like your implementation!
Might be good to limit some of the special operators to give more focus -- otherwise the early levels are a bit too solvable with ".*"
Source code!: https://github.com/mdp/regex-blaster
Every vibe coded site is too dark and the text is too small.
This is fair, although I ask for it to be dark themed to match what I think was the style of typing game I remember growing up with (it's been a while). Bumped up the font though.
They all have this rounded box design as well. I wonder where that came from, I don't think it was a predominant style before.
Fun interactive game!
Cool idea! I shall give it a try :)
TL;DR: I think you should still learn regex, even though AI has made it a "useless" skill
https://mdp.github.io/2026/03/17/the-kids-are-alright-and-th...
Not so useless. In my experience LLMs are about 50/50 on making a regex that actually works and covers the cases you asked it for. Even less when you get into cases needing advanced features like backreferences and lookahead.
A little bit early to tell.
Let’s wait how affordable, available and good AI is when the companies turn to profit maximization and enshittification begins