Dan Fixes Coin-OpsFree software people I am begging you to stop naming your software
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🦝
So you've made a great program that pisses all over the paid alternatives, great, now for the love of god please delegate the naming of that software to someone Normal so you don't end up calling it something like Kalculator
KDE PlasmaFuck you
#kde #foss #open-source-software
Mike McCaffrey@ifixcoinops@retro.social I feel like you are personally calling out @Kalamuna@mastodon.social for our project naming habits, though if we created a calculator module for #Drupal, we'd probably call it Kalaculator.
Daniël Franke :panheart:@ifixcoinops@retro.social While I fully agree, names matter less than I expected if something named ChatGPT can become so popular.
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsThe biggest hurdle towards Jabber adoption is people calling it XMPP
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsLike, saying to your mate down the pub "Oh you should get on Jabber" versus "You should get on ecks em pee pee"
One of these words sounds like a thing for talking about whatever with your mates, the other sounds like a thing for bollocking around with config files so you can talk to other people who bollock around with config files about bollocking around with config files
George B@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu @ifixcoinops@retro.social
When I was a small child, I found out that the letters GPT in French are the same as the words "I farted" and then the height of comedy was "tricking" people into saying it. Since chat translates to cat, ChatGPT is "cat, I farted" which is extremely stupid and makes that whole game redundant.
Cattivo Strega ✅
bonafide🇨🇦
@ifixcoinops@retro.social
I started out in comp sci in uni. I realized that the people I was studying beside could not write documentation. At least not documentation that someone else could understand.
I ended up graduating from communication (strategy, audiences, advertising, and policy).
Get someone separate from the app development to name the app. It will change its trajectory.
Ge0rG@ifixcoinops@retro.social
Torn between the parallel universe where Jabber®
️™
️ isn't owned by Cisco¹ and the one where #xmpp is pronounced as "Zimpy!"²
...said the project janitor of Bruno the Jabber™️ Bear...
Context:
1. https://xmpp.org/about/xsf/jabber-trademark/approved-applications/
2. https://metajack.im/2010/01/31/bitesized-xmpp-news-3/
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsBefore you commit to a name for your free software you should at least once say it aloud in a public place
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐰
fiddling with phone ugh, what did he say it was called, exemplary pee? oh ffs now I gotta confirm my age again...
Farticle Accelerator🇨🇦@ifixcoinops@retro.social Same for commercial software. Pentaho (supposedly pen-taho) used at my last employer became known to us as penta-ho and then five-hoes and "that group of five ladies of the night software"
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐧
Finally, my new search software is finished
🐧 Twice as fast and user friendly as the corpo shit, but free and empowering and only contains useful information
🐧 This is going to change the world🐧 I call it Andrew's New Userfriendly">🐧 I call it Andrew's New Userfriendly Search
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐰 I'm forking ANUS because of the godawful name🐰 My new project is called Pete's (fork of) Andrew's Interesting New User (friendly)">🐰 My new project is called Pete's (fork of) Andrew's Interesting New User (friendly) Search
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐰 fiddling with phone ugh, what did he say it was called, exemplary pee? oh ffs now I gotta confirm my age again...
Farticle Accelerator🇨🇦@ifixcoinops@retro.social Same for commercial software. Pentaho (supposedly pen-taho) used at my last employer became known to us as penta-ho and then five-hoes and "that group of five ladies of the night software"
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐧 Finally, my new search software is finished
🐧 Twice as fast and user friendly as the corpo shit, but free and empowering and only contains useful information
🐧 This is going to change the world🐧 I call it Andrew's New Userfriendly">🐧 I call it Andrew's New Userfriendly Search
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐰 I'm forking ANUS because of the godawful name🐰 My new project is called Pete's (fork of) Andrew's Interesting New User (friendly)">🐰 My new project is called Pete's (fork of) Andrew's Interesting New User (friendly) Search
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐹
Honestly I think the name should be neutral while representing the underlying technology, which is why my fork is called hhgxyxynszzyr
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐹 Honestly I think the name should be neutral while representing the underlying technology, which is why my fork is called hhgxyxynszzyr
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐹 it stands for "hhgxyxynszzyr ain't painus"
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐹 Honestly I think the name should be neutral while representing the underlying technology, which is why my fork is called hhgxyxynszzyr
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐹 it stands for "hhgxyxynszzyr ain't painus"
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐹 it stands for "hhgxyxynszzyr ain't painus"
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐹 It's a bit of a niche name I know but look at Facebook, they had a crap name and millions of marketing dollars and succeeded anyway and all I have to deal with is a crap name
🐹 hhgxyxynszzyr, trips right off the tongue
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐹 it stands for "hhgxyxynszzyr ain't painus"
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐹 It's a bit of a niche name I know but look at Facebook, they had a crap name and millions of marketing dollars and succeeded anyway and all I have to deal with is a crap name
🐹 hhgxyxynszzyr, trips right off the tongue
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐹 It's a bit of a niche name I know but look at Facebook, they had a crap name and millions of marketing dollars and succeeded anyway and all I have to deal with is a crap name
🐹 hhgxyxynszzyr, trips right off the tongue
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐧 As we all know, early intervention is important. Schools are overwhelmingly teaching children to use proprietary software, which in addition to being against the spirit of liberation in computing, can be considered basically equivalent to a competition-stifling government handout to already-rich corporations, ensuring their customer base into the next generation.
🐧 Unfortunately I myself have been banned from the premises but if anybody else wants to bring up ANUS to their local school board at the next meeting,
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐹 It's a bit of a niche name I know but look at Facebook, they had a crap name and millions of marketing dollars and succeeded anyway and all I have to deal with is a crap name
🐹 hhgxyxynszzyr, trips right off the tongue
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐧 As we all know, early intervention is important. Schools are overwhelmingly teaching children to use proprietary software, which in addition to being against the spirit of liberation in computing, can be considered basically equivalent to a competition-stifling government handout to already-rich corporations, ensuring their customer base into the next generation.
🐧 Unfortunately I myself have been banned from the premises but if anybody else wants to bring up ANUS to their local school board at the next meeting,
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐧 As we all know, early intervention is important. Schools are overwhelmingly teaching children to use proprietary software, which in addition to being against the spirit of liberation in computing, can be considered basically equivalent to a competition-stifling government handout to already-rich corporations, ensuring their customer base into the next generation.
🐧 Unfortunately I myself have been banned from the premises but if anybody else wants to bring up ANUS to their local school board at the next meeting,
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsThis isn't as much of a problem with other endeavours as it is with computer endeavours
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🐧 As we all know, early intervention is important. Schools are overwhelmingly teaching children to use proprietary software, which in addition to being against the spirit of liberation in computing, can be considered basically equivalent to a competition-stifling government handout to already-rich corporations, ensuring their customer base into the next generation.
🐧 Unfortunately I myself have been banned from the premises but if anybody else wants to bring up ANUS to their local school board at the next meeting,
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsThis isn't as much of a problem with other endeavours as it is with computer endeavours
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsThis isn't as much of a problem with other endeavours as it is with computer endeavours
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsLike in the pub you might overhear
🐴
You thought of a better name for your handyman business yet
🦊
Well, you didn't like Mister Fingers so,
🐴 Aye I didn't
🦊 It suggested DEXTEROUS and NIMBLE
🐴 No it didn't
🦊 Alright so I had a think, thought "Age, continuity, experience, competence, reassurance,"
🐴 Good, so...
🦊 Daddy Fingers
🐴 No
🦊 ...BIG Daddy Fingers
🐴 No,
🦊 Fat Daddy Slickfingers
But with computers it's just you, alone and naked at 2am, just you and the rubber duck you're holding up like Hamlet with poor Yorick's skull and asking
🐺
Should I name my calculator app Fat Daddy Slickfingers
🦆
no response
🐺 ...do you have any objection to my naming this app Fat Daddy Slickfingers
🦆 ...
🐺 Then it's settled
There's nobody there to tell you no, just the rubber duck and he can't talk, only weep, weep for daddy fingers
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsThis isn't as much of a problem with other endeavours as it is with computer endeavours
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsLike in the pub you might overhear
🐴 You thought of a better name for your handyman business yet
🦊 Well, you didn't like Mister Fingers so,
🐴 Aye I didn't
🦊 It suggested DEXTEROUS and NIMBLE
🐴 No it didn't
🦊 Alright so I had a think, thought "Age, continuity, experience, competence, reassurance,"
🐴 Good, so...
🦊 Daddy Fingers
🐴 No
🦊 ...BIG Daddy Fingers
🐴 No,
🦊 Fat Daddy Slickfingers
But with computers it's just you, alone and naked at 2am, just you and the rubber duck you're holding up like Hamlet with poor Yorick's skull and asking
🐺 Should I name my calculator app Fat Daddy Slickfingers
🦆 no response
🐺 ...do you have any objection to my naming this app Fat Daddy Slickfingers
🦆 ...
🐺 Then it's settled
There's nobody there to tell you no, just the rubber duck and he can't talk, only weep, weep for daddy fingers
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsLike in the pub you might overhear
🐴 You thought of a better name for your handyman business yet
🦊 Well, you didn't like Mister Fingers so,
🐴 Aye I didn't
🦊 It suggested DEXTEROUS and NIMBLE
🐴 No it didn't
🦊 Alright so I had a think, thought "Age, continuity, experience, competence, reassurance,"
🐴 Good, so...
🦊 Daddy Fingers
🐴 No
🦊 ...BIG Daddy Fingers
🐴 No,
🦊 Fat Daddy Slickfingers
But with computers it's just you, alone and naked at 2am, just you and the rubber duck you're holding up like Hamlet with poor Yorick's skull and asking
🐺 Should I name my calculator app Fat Daddy Slickfingers
🦆 no response
🐺 ...do you have any objection to my naming this app Fat Daddy Slickfingers
🦆 ...
🐺 Then it's settled
There's nobody there to tell you no, just the rubber duck and he can't talk, only weep, weep for daddy fingers
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsProgrammer Art: crude, crappy temporary graphics that you put in a game while you figure out if the mechanics are fun enough to bother finishing it and sorting out a proper artist before release
Programmer Naming: a crude, crappy temporary name that you keep forever and ever amen, twenty years later the top question on your FAQ page is NO, we will NOT change the name, in fact we consider that it is YOU SIR who art being CRINGE,
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsLike in the pub you might overhear
🐴 You thought of a better name for your handyman business yet
🦊 Well, you didn't like Mister Fingers so,
🐴 Aye I didn't
🦊 It suggested DEXTEROUS and NIMBLE
🐴 No it didn't
🦊 Alright so I had a think, thought "Age, continuity, experience, competence, reassurance,"
🐴 Good, so...
🦊 Daddy Fingers
🐴 No
🦊 ...BIG Daddy Fingers
🐴 No,
🦊 Fat Daddy Slickfingers
But with computers it's just you, alone and naked at 2am, just you and the rubber duck you're holding up like Hamlet with poor Yorick's skull and asking
🐺 Should I name my calculator app Fat Daddy Slickfingers
🦆 no response
🐺 ...do you have any objection to my naming this app Fat Daddy Slickfingers
🦆 ...
🐺 Then it's settled
There's nobody there to tell you no, just the rubber duck and he can't talk, only weep, weep for daddy fingers
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsProgrammer Art: crude, crappy temporary graphics that you put in a game while you figure out if the mechanics are fun enough to bother finishing it and sorting out a proper artist before release
Programmer Naming: a crude, crappy temporary name that you keep forever and ever amen, twenty years later the top question on your FAQ page is NO, we will NOT change the name, in fact we consider that it is YOU SIR who art being CRINGE,
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsProgrammer Art: crude, crappy temporary graphics that you put in a game while you figure out if the mechanics are fun enough to bother finishing it and sorting out a proper artist before release
Programmer Naming: a crude, crappy temporary name that you keep forever and ever amen, twenty years later the top question on your FAQ page is NO, we will NOT change the name, in fact we consider that it is YOU SIR who art being CRINGE,
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsNow obviously if you write software that you want to change the world, if you want it to be liberating and transformative and affirming and empowering, then you want LOTS of people to be liberated and transformed and affirmed and empowered, so you should name your software something that's ideally inspiring but at the very least not horrifically off-putting
But if you want to make a calculator app called Fat Daddy Slickfingers for a laugh then absolutely go for it lol
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsProgrammer Art: crude, crappy temporary graphics that you put in a game while you figure out if the mechanics are fun enough to bother finishing it and sorting out a proper artist before release
Programmer Naming: a crude, crappy temporary name that you keep forever and ever amen, twenty years later the top question on your FAQ page is NO, we will NOT change the name, in fact we consider that it is YOU SIR who art being CRINGE,
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsNow obviously if you write software that you want to change the world, if you want it to be liberating and transformative and affirming and empowering, then you want LOTS of people to be liberated and transformed and affirmed and empowered, so you should name your software something that's ideally inspiring but at the very least not horrifically off-putting
But if you want to make a calculator app called Fat Daddy Slickfingers for a laugh then absolutely go for it lol
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsNow obviously if you write software that you want to change the world, if you want it to be liberating and transformative and affirming and empowering, then you want LOTS of people to be liberated and transformed and affirmed and empowered, so you should name your software something that's ideally inspiring but at the very least not horrifically off-putting
But if you want to make a calculator app called Fat Daddy Slickfingers for a laugh then absolutely go for it lol
scarlett@ifixcoinops@retro.social it took all of my mental effort to not laugh at this out loud while tipsy on a bus.
I just felt like you should know that I appreciate your posts
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsNow obviously if you write software that you want to change the world, if you want it to be liberating and transformative and affirming and empowering, then you want LOTS of people to be liberated and transformed and affirmed and empowered, so you should name your software something that's ideally inspiring but at the very least not horrifically off-putting
But if you want to make a calculator app called Fat Daddy Slickfingers for a laugh then absolutely go for it lol
scarlett@ifixcoinops@retro.social it took all of my mental effort to not laugh at this out loud while tipsy on a bus.
I just felt like you should know that I appreciate your posts
scarlett@ifixcoinops@retro.social it took all of my mental effort to not laugh at this out loud while tipsy on a bus.
I just felt like you should know that I appreciate your posts
scarlett@ifixcoinops@retro.social it took all of my mental effort to not laugh at this out loud while tipsy on a bus.
I just felt like you should know that I appreciate your posts