Somewhat off-topic, but I find the name somewhat amusing. I would never seriously hold a name against a project, but I’m always curious when one is named something a bit...edgy, without an obvious reason - and at the expense of making it harder to find!
Bear - minimal blogging platform - it's a play on bare
Venom - all terrain quadruped - snakes are all terrain?
Zoox - self-driving-car tech - half the other self-driving-car companies have nonsense names
Facebook - I still find this a smart name for the service
Looking Glass - 3D display - confused me for a second with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Glass_server
Surfboard - audio feature extraction using ML - nonsense name
Plywood - cross-platform C++ framework - nonsense name, okay I sort of get it
I work in the steel fabrication / construction industry, so the material / construction technology related names catch my attention a lot and I wonder about them.
Naming things is hard. Naming things that didn't exist last week must be even harder!
Indeed, this is not something many people appreciate...
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More like a [venomous] spider than a snake I think.
It seems to be the software engineering world, out of all the engineering disciplines, that loves to draw upon fanciful names the most.
I used to troll an old housemate who was in web frontend by making up framework names. "Oh you're using Node.JS? Was talking to someone who's migrating to Polenta, with Shibboleth on the backend." He never did quite catch on.
Shibboleth? Isn’t that still in private beta?
0_____0‘s Law of Software Framework Names
The Laser
I mean, I think it's less of a problem for projects that are not commands... really my whole complaint is that a lot of the commands in my universe used to be super unique; you aren't going to get a lot of off the wall results for lsof or ifconfig; but ss and ip? yeah, even when you limit it to my work context, you get conflicts on those.
IP but not Intelectual Property
SS but not Secret Service
IP -"Intellectual property"I mean if your going to go through the hassle of looking up that certain command, might as well make it easier on future you to alias that foo while you have it fresh in you mind.