A bit different to what you are currently reading but I really enjoyed project Hail Mary and the Martian by Andy Weir. Some classics from the 70s like Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, Gateway by Frederik Pohl, The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

I've ended up writing something like this in the past to time test time + gradle tasks + intellji shenanigans and then wrote the results to a file. So that I could argue why I needed a new work laptop 😅 It worked though, I got my new laptop!

I actually got the idea from a talk you did a while ago!

I noticed that when I looked at a few solutions after, its a nice shorthand. Lets see if I remember it next year when I touch regex again