Classnames – a site that provides thematically grouped lists of words

PowerShell has an official approved verb list: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/devel...

I'm reminded of my quest for the plural of "status". -us being a Latin singular suffix... There ought to be a plural out there besides "statuses", which may be technically correct but gives no hint about the character of a status. Not like a "murder" of crows does.

I think it sort of branches out in three directions:

- state (all statuses at a single moment)

- gamut (a range of possible (mutually exclusive?) statuses)

- story (all statuses for a single object)

I'm not sure what's the use of such thoughts, but my mind enjoys thinking them: words as elements in a topological space.

I suppose it's handy for naming variables, but my coworkers don't typically like the names I come up with. I had a dict mapping strings to size-limited deques containing timestamps the other day which I called an AmnesicChronology. Didn't survive review.

The hard part is not picking a word, the hard part is correctly understanding what the thing is you are trying to name.

For some reason, creating such collections is joyful. And reading through them too. A glossary, of which kind ever, is an unofficially stable state. That's a toolkit onto which people can base their unsharp experiments with their language. I am just creating such a thing too, while translating a documentation. I often come back to it.

"Naming things needn't be hard" is not a good way to start a project intended to help people name things, because naming things is always hard. It's especially not a good start if the project is just a list of grouped words with no commentary on the process of naming things.

While the site is neat, the headline reads like a total failure to me.

I prefer https://wordassociations.net/en which is also multilingual.

Why not use a standard Thesaurus like https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ ?

Roget’s thesaurus is the granddaddy of thematically grouped lists of words

I like this website.

However, 209kb of javascript? I'm no JS snob, but goodness gracious what in the world?

It's a collection of hyperlinks and a spash of CSS. And it's actually fairly sluggish.

This site links to Wordnik, which is a great site, but lately I've been using WordHippo to find similar words or narrow in on a word that better fits what I'm describing. The way it groups by meaning is much more convenient. Rhymezone (which does more than rhymes) was my favorite prior to finding WordHippo.

So it's basically an ontology? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology

I rather like this collection: https://namingschemes.com/Main_Page

Another nice resource: https://github.com/timvieira/justified-variables

I was thinking it was a site to go along with the Semantle game.

https://semantle.com/

It is even easier: https://www.classnamer.org/

Can’t say I have much issue naming code things but ask me to name a video game character or a server and I’m stuck for ages.

not having to come up with classnames is one of my favorite features of using tailwind

Wait until this person finds out about a thesaurus!

What a pointless website. Basically suggesting people shoehorn their class names into a fixed list.

Much of the website goes into pedantic levels of obscurity, e.g. undecuple most people would have to look that up and its prone to mis-spelling.

Other parts of the website are naïvely over-simplified. For example an animal apparently only has a head, foot and tail.

Sadly the website reads similarly to journalists who write articles in the company of a thesaurus, thinking they can sound smart just by looking up an alternative more obscure option in the thesaurus.