#namingishard — Public Fediverse posts

Breathe in....breathe out...

Repeat: "I am not snarking at people today. I am not snarking."

"I am especially not snarking at the poster who says the 'United States of America' isn't a 'real' name, and we shouldn't be allowed to use 'American' as our demonym...

Even though he comes from the 'United Kingdom' but calls himself 'British',

despite his country only making up about three quarters of the British Isles.

I will NOT snark at him. I will NOT."

#namingIsHard #UKsians

#namingIsHard

I was again reminded how bluntly excluding everything IT is being built. I wanted to use the phrase "put me in CC of that email". But:
- Does an average person know what it means?
- Or even how to do it in their app?
- What if the field in their app has a different name?

#Emails #NamingIsHard

Little IT naming protip:
🙅‍♂️ Do not use relative project version names like "next", "tng", "legacy", "old". It _will_ eventually confuse people as newcomers won't know if "`old` was before `next`, but that was also before `classic`". It _will_ eventually lose meaning as you release `next-next` and `next-next-next`.
👍 Do use absolute project version names. 1, 2, 3, ... At best irrespective to what new-ism marketing department came with. They want project rebrand? Fine, but we're now on Foo-4.3. So the next one will be Bar-5.0.

#IT #Naming #NamingIsHard

So if this is called a "backspace", shouldn't this be called "forwardspace"?

#NamingIsHard #Consistency

I have a "src" folder for my own source code, or code I've contributed to, but do you have a separate folder for source code from other people? I.e. code you've downloaded just because there are no available binary packages? If so, what do you call it?

#NamingIsHard

It's a good day when you get to crack out the whiteboard and starting figuring out a code structure.

#Code #Programming #NamingIsHard

No like, THE “Madrid”. #NamingIsHard

@postmodern I think it should try to parse it and raise a dedicated/wrapping exception if that didn't work. So, wrapping any parsing error in a PresumablyIncorrectResponseMimeTypeExceptionWrapperExceptionError or so. #NamingIsHard

Oh Frege’s puzzles! #SwiftUI is full of those. And many other frameworks, for that matter.
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2023/08/swiftui-view-is-your-viewmodel/

#namingishard #iknow

I just published a post: The Case for Variables

https://mikemai.net/blog/2023/06/23/the-case-for-variables.html

#DesignTokens #DesignSystems #Config2023 #NamingIsHard

Am I upset that I spent the day push a wet noodle up the wrong hill? Sorta. But I did learn a lot about how the previous IT guy set things up, and where (I think he was headed).

Hopefully the newly gained understanding / knowledge will still be in my head come Monday. 2/2

#EKS #CloudFormation #LoadBalancer #NamingIsHard

Added update and insert capability to my #textual based SQLite app, and turned it into a full Python package. Still very much a work in progress.

Now it's called sqint - SQlite IN Terminal. Yeah, I'm bad at naming things...

https://github.com/cdelker/sqint

#sqlite #python #tui #namingishard

Naming conventions in programming – a review of scientific literature, https://makimo.pl/blog/scientific-perspective-on-naming-in-programming/.

#NamingIsHard

@rem Yup... #NamingIsHard :)

Today I'm starting layout for the "playtest edition" of the new edition of Silver Gryphon Games' Aether RPG.

This playtest edition is meant to be a low-art, pre-editing copy for people to discover the rules.

I still need to figure out a better name than "playtest edition" though.

#SilverGryphonGames #AetherRPG #NamingIsHard

@jg #namingishard

Are the Welsh ever going to confront Team Cymru?

#foss #opensource #melodrama #infosec #NamingIsHard #LoseTheFeather

Hmkay... last time I checked I did not work in the movie business 😂

#python #ogrepower #namingishard

Shortcuts is the *worst* name for an application when trying to look up details about how to use it. #macOS #NamingIsHard

@algo_luca

“thingy to build thingies” sounds like a compiler. Or maybe an orchestrator? #NamingIsHard

@chaosmonster @deadparrot Sure, a good practice. Still, what does better mean: cleaner, simpler, less code, not as condensed, ...
And all is subjective.
I try to find consensus in my team on what we consider good/simple/clean. #namingIsHard

That one file with hundreds of lines of code. You know the one I'm talking about.

Where did it come from? Who did that?

#singleresponsibilityprinciple #godclass #namingishard

Hey UI and HTML friends, how would you name this block showing the name of the selected notes on a musical score 🎼?

#NamingIsHard

fatal: A branch named 'bleh' already exists.

#NamingIsHard