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.
I vibe code web apps with Google's Gemini and I think it actually mimics Google's UI and UX because I see similarities between my vibe coded web apps and Google's web apps.
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 is really funny ;D Gives Tetris vibes and is executed beautifully.
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 ".*"
This looks like something I would vibe code with Google's Gemini. Interesting concept.
Every vibe coded site is too dark and the text is too small.
And all the text is grey-on-grey and basically unreadable. Not to even mention accessibility.
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.
I vibe code web apps with Google's Gemini and I think it actually mimics Google's UI and UX because I see similarities between my vibe coded web apps and Google's web apps.
What evidence do you have that this is vibe coded?
Source code!: https://github.com/mdp/regex-blaster
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
You can go local now with qwen 3.5 9B Q4 powering hermes agent on a used RTX 3060 for the price of two months of ChatGPT Pro and never bother.
https://xcancel.com/sudoingX/status/2033020823846674546#m