{"id":15,"count":15,"description":"<p>Fourteen posts, one theme: understanding the tool well enough that you stop pasting things into it and hoping.<\/p>\r\n<p>Regex is the biggest one. Not a cheat sheet \u2014 an explanation of how the engine backtracks, why <code>(a+)+b<\/code> can hang a server on a 30-character input, and what a lazy quantifier really changes. There is a piece on cron field order that exists because everyone gets day-of-week wrong at least once. There is one on epoch time, timezones, and the 2038 problem. There are posts on what a minifier can and cannot safely remove, and on why two files that look identical produce a diff.<\/p>\r\n<p>These are written for the middle case: you already use the tools, you have hit something odd, and the documentation assumes you know the thing you are trying to learn.<\/p>\r\n<p>Every post links to the tool it explains, so you can test the exact edge case in a tab next door. Start with the <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolict.net\/tools\/advanced-text-regex-tester-debugger\/\">Regex Studio<\/a> if you want the pattern in front of you while you read.<\/p>","link":"https:\/\/schoolict.net\/tools\/developer-tools\/","name":"Developer Tools","slug":"developer-tools","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolict.net\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolict.net\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolict.net\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolict.net\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}