Nomenclature Nonsense. #naming #error #loops https://loops.video/v/7sHMQrbe9f

There is no doubt one of the most difficult things on software engineering is naming things, 30% of my Gen-AI prompts end with "give me a list of 10 options/names/titles for ..."

New article: Trump’s Wet Fantasies Are Irrelevant For Reality

https://you-will-be-smarter.ghost.io/trumps-wet-fantasies-are-irrelevant-for-reality/

```
 3 ~/g/memoricide-ctf on  main 
❯ ./there.sh && ./back_again.sh
```

I love #naming stuff.

#GulfOfMexico or #GulfOfAmerica? Competitive renaming of seawater is actually already a thing in #geopolitics: See Arabian/#PersianGulf, #SeaOfJapan/ #EastSea, #SouthChinaSea/#WestPhilippineSea. But it implies the country doing the renaming feels threatened by equal or more powerful neighbor.

#geography #hydrology #maritime #nautical #ocean #toponymy #placenames #naming @geography @geopolitics

I wanna set up my own mastodon server using @gotosocial and am wondering what sub domain to use. Halp?

Mild repeated annoyance with #linuxmint (though I still use and love it): Every time I download updated software (i.e., not using APT) I see this.

Which fucking version? I end up searching which command to find this out on my computer, then I always have to do a SECOND search because, due to not living Ubuntu 24/7 I have no fucking clue which numerical version "Jammy" is.

Can we just agree to use ONE version system? Names or numbers, people. Pick! And if you can't do that, it doesn't seem too much to ask that you ALWAYS put both in any document ever. EVER.

Choosing the right download version costs me 5-10 minutes of my life every. damn. time.

#rant over.

Question bête, je me suis demandé quand est-ce qu'il est préférable d'utiliser "get" ou "fetch" dans le #naming de fonction : https://notes.sklein.xyz/2024-11-27_1052/zen/

 
#African #Cosmology & #Planetary Alignment: Dr Zulumathabo Zulu

❛❛ a #naming #ceremony … if there are alignments, or even a #conjunction of #planets … a full moon … then they will show the #baby the full moon ❜❜

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4fgmII7X3A&t=419s 2023 Jan 01 ce
https://GlasgowsAfricanTales.co.uk/history/pregnancy-birth-and-naming-traditions/naming-ceremonies … #NamingCeremony
https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_moon … #FullMoon

Embracing Change
Stop using racist, unethical, and inappropriate names in taxonomy
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2415490121
#naming #biodiversity #nomenclature #taxonomy #ColonialLegacies #ethics #values #science #NomenclaturalJustice

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.

Great software, likewise, requires a fanatical devotion to beauty. If you look inside good software, you find that parts no one is ever supposed to see are beautiful too. I'm not claiming I write great software, but I know that when it comes to code I behave in a way that would make me eligible for prescription drugs if I approached everyday life the same way. It drives me crazy to see code that's badly indented, or that uses ugly variable names.

— Paul Graham

#KnowledgeByte: The naming of #AstronomicalObjects is a complex and fascinating process, governed by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

Here's a brief overview of the #Naming #Conventions for various types of objects.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Naming-convention-for-Astronomical-Objects-67232240f3790b068ce077ac

Australia's semantic struggles over a "one and only" reality or a pluriverse?
From the 'heart of darkness' to the “sanitised” articles of sub/urban place names.

"Some (Wikipedia) editors told us they felt it was their responsibility to include First Nations’ perspectives, even though they met with heavy resistance. One, Lucas, had repeatedly tried to include First Nations place names, often unsuccessfully. He no longer edits Wikipedia. “I just ran out of energy for it”...One or two editors “were going around removing Aboriginal place names from all the articles about Australia and Australian places”.
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https://theconversation.com/we-analysed-35-000-wikipedia-entries-about-australian-places-some-sanitised-history-others-privileged-fiction-over-reality-241364
#wikipedia #SettlerSociety #Australia #SocialImaginary #ImaginedCommunity #fiction #violence #FirstNations #TruthTelling #naming #IndigenousKnowledge #pluriverse #EditWars #WorldMaking #EpistemicInjustice #language #framing #worldviews #AI

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

— Nathaniel Borenstein

Find inspiration for naming things – be that HTML classes, CSS properties or JavaScript functions – using these lists of useful words.

#Software #Programming #API #Naming
https://classnames.paulrobertlloyd.com/

#Development #Techniques
Finding the accessible name of a button · Why it matters and how to do it with Chrome DevTools https://ilo.im/1601up

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#Accessibility #Button #Naming #Chrome #Browser #DevTools #WebDev #Frontend #ARIA

Hmm, on one hand I'm a big fan of coming up with original names for software instead of naming it after some existing thing which then gets poisoned forever on search engines.

On the other hand it's been the third time now when I could not remember what the fuck my new music player was called.

https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet