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How Tweetbot and regex made my Twitter replies usable again

As it turns out, most normal humans are incapable of learning to use Twitter @ replies. And in case you don't follow me on Twitter: yes, my handle (@ryan) gets a lot of erroneous mentions. (The most amusing, random ones I've even taken to retweeting under the #wrongryan hashtag.)

Then Tweetbot -- and its ability to use regex as Twitter filters -- came along. Here's how the Tapbots guys and some regular expressions single-handedly made my Twitter replies usable again.

Notes and caveats

• I'm not a regex expert. Far from it. I suck at regex, actually. If you have suggestions for improvements, please leave them below!
• Some regex may look a little sloppy, but in actuality was written because TweetBot for Mac's regex filter support is very early, and things like repeats (expression{3,}) are buggy. So everything below should work without crashing Tweetbot for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
• Obvious, but not everyone should make use of every filter b

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am ryanblock on github.
• I am ryanblock (https://keybase.io/ryanblock) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is 14F0 9ABC 90E5 7F55 0690 0056 6C27 888B 0369 8554

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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// src/http/get-index/index.js
exports.handler = async function http(request) {
  return {
    type: 'text/html',
    body: 'Hello world!' // 200 status by default
  }
}

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const fs = require('fs')
const join = require('path').join
exports.handler = async function http(req) {
  let module = req.params.module
  let filePath = join(__dirname, 'node_modules', '@architect', 'views', module)
  let exists = fs.existsSync(filePath)
  if (exists) {
    let file = fs.readFileSync(filePath).toString()
    return {
      type: 'text/javascript; charset=utf8',

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let arc = require('@architect/architect')   
let data = require('@architect/data')
let tiny = require('tiny-json-http')                                   
let test = require('tape')
let end // save a ref
test('start sandbox', async t=> {                         
  t.plan(1)                         
  end = await arc.sandbox.start()            
  t.ok('started sandbox')                      
})

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test('can get /', async t=> {                         
  t.plan(1)                         
  let url = 'http://localhost:3333'                         
  let result = await tiny.get({url})      
  t.ok(result.body, 'got a 200 response')          
  console.log(result.body)
})

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test('can list cats', async t=> {                         
  t.plan(1)                         
  let result = await data.cats.scan({})   
  t.ok(result, 'got result')             
  console.log(result)
})

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// This function is everything you need to build a Lambda-based app with Begin
exports.handler = async function http(req) {
  return {
    type: 'text/html; charset=utf8',
    body: `<h1 class="center-text">Hello world!</h1>`
  }
}

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// I like using dotenv locally but that's up to you
require('dotenv').config()
const aws = require('aws-sdk')
const path = require('path')
const fs = require('fs')
const series = require('run-series')
const waterfall = require('run-waterfall')
const requestTemplate = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, 'node_modules', '@architect', 'architect', 'src', 'create', 'aws', 'create-http-route', 'create-route', '_request.vtl')).toString()
const requestFormPostTemplate = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, 'node_modules', '@architect', 'architect', 'src', 'create', 'aws', 'create-http-route', 'create-route', '_request-form-post.vtl')).toString()
const requestBinary = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, 'node_modules', '@architect', 'architect', 'src', 'create', 'aws', 'create-http-route', 'create-route', '_request-binary.vtl')).toString()

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// I like using dotenv locally but that's up to you
// require('dotenv').config()
const aws = require('aws-sdk')

// eslint-disable-next-line
let logs = [
  // Insert your logs here, eg '/aws/lambda/begin-production-foo',
]

const cloudwatchlogs = new aws.CloudWatchLogs()