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I thought the name was inspired by a cheap, easily available lubricant that comes in handy for every home.

I've tried many simple servers for experimenting with simple static websites (HTML, CSS, JS). I'm currently settled on LiveReload[1] and BrowserSync[2]. LiveReload attaches to other tooling and is more straightforward, while Brower-Sync when looking across a few multiple browsers (out of habit). I'm not particularly fond of tooling that attaches to an IDE, but I like more of the ones that I can pipe with arguments. But then again, I do straightforward stuff these days.

LiveReload should also be easily attachable to a simple `python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000`.

1. https://github.com/livereload

2. https://browsersync.io

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>I thought the name was inspired by a cheap, easily available lubricant that comes in handy for every home.

It is, especially it's rust-repellent properties. The only 'plug-and-play' static webserver I found was, well... https://github.com/static-web-server/static-web-server/ which is written in Rust (I didn't look around super hard). But, being a gopher, and since it lacked live reload, I wrote my own.

wd-40 is not a lubricant. Stop using it as one. You're just making the problem worse. Use lubricating oils.

Put some wd-40 on your bike's brakes and see if you think it's not a lubricant.

Maybe you think it's not a _good_ lubricant? But a lot of its use is to extract stuck things which requires a thin lubricant

It may temporarily act like a lubricant, but we typically expect lubricants to last longer than a month or so, and WD-40 does not. It's meant as a solvent, and can be followed up with an actual lubricant.

> we typically expect lubricants to last longer than a month or so, and WD-40 does not

Neither does KY and yet here we are.

While WD40 wasn't designed as a lubricant it does function as one.

People using heavy equipment often grease their machines daily but no one claims grease isn't a lubricant.

I have to put bar oil in my chain saw every time I use it, and often have to refill it during the day. Is that not a lubricant?

But you are aware and know that you have to reapply KY every time you want to deal with some ... em... tight situations. And after you're done, you intentionally wash it off, because you don't want those places to be lubricated during non-active times.

But a bike chain is a thing that you want lubricated for a long time, and not have to think about lube every time you want to use it (well.. in a normal, bike-driving way). Is it still lubed? Did it rain the last time you drove a bike? When was the last time you lubed it? Some other lubricant would last much longer and lubricate much better, and with a bike chain, lasting many months is good thing.

That's why we have and use different kind of lubricants for different things, and WD40 is not a "good choice" for most of the stuff some people use it for (like bike chains... or anal).

The point is, different lubricants have a different effective time.

As I said: a chainsaw is constantly adding lubricant to the bar. Meanwhile the swing I built for my son had white lithium sprayed on it and still doesn't make a sound, after full exposure to 3 monsoonal wet seasons.

People use WD-40 for anal?

What else are you going to use to penetrate the joint and loosen up seized nuts?

I'll see myself out.

Apparently it's not recommended: http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~cochran/blackcare/newsflash/gh7-3-...

> Maybe you think it's not a _good_ lubricant? But a lot of its use is to extract stuck things which requires a thin lubricant

The word you are looking for is “penetrating oil”. The problem with a too broad definition of “lubricant” is that I wouldn’t use Coca Cola to lube my engine or KY Jelly to lube my bike chain. WD-40 is a shitty lubricant for metal-on-metal moving parts, so it’s helpful in that context to say that it isn’t a lubricant.

Over 1/3 of WD-40 is made of a lubricant. My salad dressing is over 1/3 oil. Does that make it lubricant, or is it actually still salad dressing?

Not sure who's arguing what and on what side here but when making a sandwich, adding dressing or oil to the sandwich is often referred to as "adding a lubricant" to the sandwich.

Third option: It's possible for salad dressings to be lubricants.

What’s a good lubricant for metal on metal (aluminum in specific)?

Tri-flow. Also good as a penetrating oil, and smells like bananas.

It also has a lot of teflon.

wd-40 brand makes several lubricants now

It would be self defeating if written in Rust

Except "rust" in rust isn't about iron oxidation, but rather a fungi [0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/27jvdt/internet_archa...

Doesn't seem that final in that extract.

> <graydon> > A little. Also big metallic things. And rusts and smuts, fungi. And it's a > <graydon> > nice substring of "robust".

> <graydon> IOW I don't have a really good explanation. it seemed like a good name. (also a substring of "trust", "frustrating", "rustic" and ... "thrust"?)

> <graydon> but then everyone thinks it's a pun on "chrome" so maybe we should stick with that

And given that now all the lore around it is about oxidation, I guess that's what stuck?

These old IRC dumps make me nostalgic instantaneously. There was a time not that long ago when we were still mostly fine with plain text for complex communications.

> … mostly fine with plain text for complex communications

Like on this very website? :)

I think you missed one of the more important lines:

> I think I named it after fungi. rusts are amazing creatures.

Sure, there’s room for doubt, but not that much room.

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