Shouldn't this line: > "using regular expressions clocks in as taking about twice as long as the hashmap-based solution." be written as the opposite? That the RE takes half as long/is twice as fast?

I think the point is that naive regex are a very generic purpose tool, but it's still in the same ballpark. Having a custom optimized state machine for this specific use case could bring another 5x improvement on top, leading to 2.5x faster, potentially.

As you add additional games, I would include a search bar on the main page.

Good thought, I'll add it to todos.

You should add the fact that you can search with ⌘P to the help.

I didn't even know they were a part of illegal DDoS-for-hire services.

Great read. I could feel the emotion of the character's throughout. The story reminds me of a previous post I saw on HN about a tech support guy trying to solve mysterious bad code appearing in a professors program, only for him to fall down the rabbit whole and discovering a student had tampered with the compiler's code in a similar fashion. If someone could find and link the story, I would be very grateful.

I remember that one too, I was able to find it by searching comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26553390

Old site that I first saw on HN bringing up this issue: https://www.socialcooling.com/

How is this different from previous voice assistant projects designed for the raspberry pi. Projects such as: Rhaspy, Mycroft, and Jasper?

It was mainly a toy project for me; a bone to chew on if you will. I wanted something which I could mess with easily myself and which was heavily pluggable.

Integrating it with various external peripherals should be easy and it's designed to run completely on its own (i.e. no cloud for a lot of things).

I am planning on getting a Google Pixel3a (headphone jack) and ungooglifying it.