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#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