If you are starting a project, but you have no idea how to call it, maybe just a placeholder, how do you name it?
My goto is Douglas1 or test1, how about yours?
If you are starting a project, but you have no idea how to call it, maybe just a placeholder, how do you name it?
My goto is Douglas1 or test1, how about yours?
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I use the word yolo all over my dev environment in various contexts.
When running each loops, I always assign the
each
variable as x, y, or z.Also, a lot of things are called
asdf
or some variation of that.I’m running on the “i”, “j” religion. But I can totally understand that
i, j, k FTW!
Gotta respect that unit vector
I name things based on what I'm thinking right at that moment.
lala
is my favorite!it's:
la
two times)lalalalala
as long you want. I swear)lala
-> customization engine ->lolo
|lili
etc)For times that laziness pass the upper limit,
a
,b
,c
are fine too :pHad a dev on a production app that I had to code review more times than I would have expected because he would use single letter variable names.
Made my heart sad every time I saw it.
If I don't have a descriptive name for something, I won't do it. My manager and I have sat down for over a day before trying to figure out what to call certain things. For us, since we're creating a department, it's important that anyone could walk into the job and know exactly what we mean.
I usually start with a name that I think captures what I'm working on. Maybe a branch name, or a directory name. Then about 2hours, or 2days later, I make a PR with a subject and branch name that absolutely don't line up.
Sometimes I'm right though, and it feels satisfying. But often wrong, for example, from today:
fix/trigger-action
:)
temp or tmp most of the time.
I used i, j, k for loops, and every other letter for other variables.
I don't do it. I will literally sit, flow-stopped, doing nothing, until I think of a good descriptive name.
my first choice while learning a lang or lib is "hello x", like "hellodart".
Then, when I want to do something more involved, its usually dartymcdartface.
The commit-messages for my playaround-projects are mostly some song-lyrics that happen to play either in my head or headphones while i do the commit, like "bluebirds are so natural".
(Same with savegames back when one could name savegames in PC-games)
I use the names of Greek Gods or animals. Like Zeus or narwhal.
Waffles and pickles abound in my projects, be they classnames, logging or project names.
biff
scuzz
junk
whatevs
are a couple I keep returning toFor projects, I pick island names from archipelagos I like.
mine,
Finding project names smartly
Saurabh 💪💤
My go-to word for any placeholder or bogus strings for tests is "banana". If I need more, I go with "apple" and "orange".
I use npmjs.com/package/nsaname/
For truly throwaway things, like tutorials or learning, here's my go-to placeholders:
foo
bar
baz
asdf
zxcv
lkj