Alex Kirk

Alex Kirk
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  • New Feature for HN Collapsible Threads: Collapse Whole Thread

    I have added a feature to the HN Collapsible Threads bookmarklet that enables you to close a whole thread from any point within the thread: This is useful when you are reading a thread and decided that you are having enough of it and want to move on to the next thread. Before you had…

  • preg_match, UTF-8 and whitespace

    Just a quick note, be careful when using the whitespace character \s in preg_match when operating with UTF-8 strings. Suppose you have a string containing a dagger symbol. When you try to strip all whitespace from the string like this, you will end up with an invalid UTF-8 character: $ php -r ‘echo preg_replace(“#\s#”, “”,…