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Over the last several years, I’ve rewritten Rust’s regex crate to enable better internal composition, and to make it easier to add optimizations while maintaining correctness. In the course of this rewrite I created a new crate, regex-automata, which exposes much of the regex crate internals as their own APIs for others to use. To my knowledge, this is the first regex library to expose its internals to the degree done in regex-automata as a separately versioned library.

This blog post discusses the problems that led to the rewrite, how the rewrite solved them and a guided tour of regex-automata’s API.

As a sysadmin, you often come across complex tasks that require more than just basic commands. That’s why it’s important to learn some intermediate-level Linux commands that can make your work easier and more efficient.

These commands can help you automate repetitive tasks, manage processes, and monitor system performance, among other things. In this article, we will explore some of these commands and their usage.

In this opinionated series, my aim is to provide a structured path that takes you from a simple NixOS configuration to a more complex one, while explaining the underlying concepts along the way.