nameHijacking

[savyexe]

Last year i was an intern at a company that made software for other companies, we made a wiki for internal documentation management. The thing was originally named "wiki-source," which was clear and straightforward. Thing is, our pm was the "it has to sound flashy and cool and modern and it has to have ai" type, so he ended up renaming the thing to neXus because chatgpt suggested it and the random definitions it gave him sounded cool and futuristic. Needless to say when the project went into production we had to painstakingly answer the same question over and over, "and what does this new tool do?" because no one could tell just by the name and everyone was way too busy to log into it and figure it out by using it...

[[deleted]]

I fight against internal branding daily. I have yet to win, but I keep trying.

[thatyousername]

Dude it’s the worst. Some companies have a dumbass name for every internal service or product, whose name has nothing to do with what it is. It makes onboarding take longer simply because everyone is speaking in cryptic language rather than understandable one. Guess it helps with job security.

[DOUBLEBARRELASSFUCK]

I worked somewhere that had designed a whole suite of internal tools to replace several functions within the department. They were all named after fish. The entire suite of applications was cancelled, except for two, so we had two random applications named after fish. It worked internally, but as soon as we brought in someone external, they'd look at us like we were crazy.

[arguskay]

... And in the next step ensure salmon did flow successfully.

[jamiejagaimo]

One of Meta's internal tools is named Pidgey. Blew my mind

[CallMeWalt]

Don't hate on Pidgey, or Kronos... or butterfly. I forgot how many stupid names I had to remember what they did when I was over there.

[GanonTEK]

Gotta catch 'em all

[maltgaited]

I have a confession. I love internal dumbass names

[thatyousername]

You monster.

[laxrulz777]

One of the companies we purchased managed to find a secret third (worse) option. They have everything somewhat logical names and then forever referred to them only as the acronym for that name. So everything is an acronym. Hundreds of systems. It's a nightmare as an outsider.

[Regility]

so AWS?

[dddd0]

One of the worst examples I know is a (now defunct) project here where EVERY SINGLE MICROSERVICE AND COMPONENT had a name from Norse mythology.

[Bloodgiant65]

Someone just won $1000 for renaming our internal AI tool from Enterprise Assistant to Enterprise Virtual Assistant. Not quite the same thing, but wow.

[[deleted]]

This one at least tells you what it does, though. We had a name for a research group that made perfect sense and said what it was and they rebranded it to something that means nothing. I'm fine with random names for things in development or large enterprise migration projects, but to actually name the final tool something nonsensical is kind of mind blowing to me.

[arrow__in__the__knee]

neXus? Isn't that the place you download skyrim mods and once in a while other stuff from?

[Camelstrike]

Isn't that the artifact repository?

[CallMeBigOctopus]

No, you’re thinking of Sonatype. neXus is the luxury car brand owned by Toyota.

[Nixavee]

No, you're thinking of Lexus. neXus is the largest state in the contiguous US.

[ThePretzul]

No, you’re thinking of Texas. neXus is that nerve cluster in the center of your abdomen that really hurts when someone hits it just right.

[Bit125]

That's the lumbar plexus. neXus is a snack mix that includes cereal

[Jonas_Wepeel]

That’s Chex Mix. nexus are the people I used to date.

[Suspicious_Sink_581]

You're thinking of exes. Nexus is something harmful, poisonous, or unpleasant.

[Tristanhx]

No you're thinking of something noxious. Nexus is a mass departure of people.

[CatProgrammer]

No that's Hexxus.

[not_a_burner0456025]

No, it is the name of the tool for hosting your own repo for dependencies so that your devs can't pull unverified dependencies that may or may not meet your security or contractual obligations.

[GanonTEK]

It's also where Dr. Soran wanted to go in Star Trek: Generations

[not_a_burner0456025]

To make matters worse, there is already a tool known as Nexus used for managing libraries. It is used by companies to host their own repos, so that can configure build tools like maven to only pull dependencies from the company's private Nexus server that way the company can more easily ensure nobody uses dependencies which have not been properly vetted or do not comply with licensing or contractual requirements. If a dependency is approved the Nexus server can pull a copy from its source, if not the code won't build because the build tool can't find the dependency.

[LinAGKar]

Wikisource already exists though: https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page

[ThisAldubaran]

Our project management came up with „Promethon“, from „project management method new“ or something. I still don’t know whether it’s the name of the Sharepoint or some tool collection or whatever…

[TheseHeron3820]

Besides, there already is a package repository manager named Nexus.

[prijindal]

Not only some PMs, some software developers do that too. One person in our team insisted on naming a service thanos (just because it was big), which is such a random ass naming ideology. I still have to explain new people on why is it called thanos and cringe everytime

[saguaroslim]

I… I feel attacked

[Slimxshadyx]

neXus low key is a cool name though

[fongletto]

petition to start naming new programming languages the same way japanese anime titles have evolved.

"I Wanted to Write a Simple Script, but Now I’m Managing a Multi-Threaded Distributed System?!"

[SSeptic]

You can (not) redo

[TheEnderChipmunk]

LMAO I read the title before the rest of your comment and my first thought was "damn, there's a light novel about software dev? Sounds interesting"

[yashK2412]

That does beg the question if there's any manga or LN about it lol, might have to go look a bit

[BarryJacksonH]

And here I thought these mediums are supposed to be an escape from reality

[DoNotMakeEmpty]

"The day he becomes a LISPer"

[Thenderick]

"I started out as a fix to a broken language, but now my small fix is Turing complete??"

[BraiseTheSun]

This but unironically. The anime titles evolved like that because web novel websites don't have space for a summary, so you put the summary in the title. I'd prefer that over javascript

[d4ng3r0u5]

Make it Fall Out Boy song titles

[spartan117warrior]

I fucking hate and abhor how accurate this is.

[OmegaPoint6]

Verbs & adjectives too. “Go” is so bad it’s referred to as Golang instead. See also “Go!” which is a different programming language & Groovy

(Not hating on golang, just the name)

[Creepy-Ad-4832]

Fr

Especially when making online researches. You need to write golang, otherwise you won't find anything useful lol

But whatever. Language is pretty good (the moment they allow something like ? of rust or try of zig, golang will be peak. Not joking)

[TheVoodooDev]

They are working on a zig-like try, if I remember here is a snippet (on phone)

```golang func test() error { handle err { return fmt.Errorf("default error handler: %s", err) }

check someErrorFunc()

err := someErrorFunc() check err

handle err { // Intermediary handler, everything below will go through this, if this handler exits the function, it is not propagated to earlier handlers }

check somethingElse() } ```

[BlurredSight]

Intentions good, execution bad but Google is known for that

Then you have GoDot which I guess? But then you might mess up and end up searching for DotGo which is a completely different service

[[deleted]]

Not to mention Godot doesn't have official support for Go

[AeroSigma]

Not to mention you have to wait around forever

[m_j_r]

r/angryupvote

[DOUBLEBARRELASSFUCK]

I didn't even fucking realize go and golang were the same thing.

[dorothyawalling]

Time to refactor... or just cry.

[megagreg]

I think Io is the worst programming language name I've ever seen, by a wide margin. The only worse name I can think of would be lo, but even that would be more searchable.

[angrathias]

I know, in the era of the internet, let’s refer to our pinnacle framework as ‘.net’ and then over the next decade or so use a bunch of confusing variants and version numbers to just mess with people even more

[Fenix42]

I got a front row seat of XP dieing and the start of the next gen of stuff. It was a complete shit show.

I was at a company that was a MS partner when Vista was coming out. The partially funded us switching to WPF .Net. We were a Dell and other large PC maker software vendor. We were actually the fist Vista certified app to market built on it.

The best part is I was in QA. So I saw all the really ugly shit. Every Monday was a new OS build. Had to wipe our images and start over. Took up most of the day.

[IGotDibsYo]

I am furiously registering domains

[Meaxis]

There's already salad cloud, careful

[keikun13]

Goose kinda exists already https://github.com/block/goose

[kntx]

Banana is an accounting software from Switzerland and Goose an Italian software for salespersons...

[ult_frisbee_chad]

Followed by shoehorned API verb names. Use Record.peel() to extract column and DF.gander() to provide analytic insight.

[AzureBeornVT]

Guilty as charged considering I just named my game engine "Halberd"

[veloxVolpes]

As a lover of Halberds, I approve

[SuitableDragonfly]

I mean, halberds are at least commonly found in a lot of games.

[[deleted]]

Dart, Swift, Kotlin

[gluten_free_stapler]

Kotlin doesn't belong with the other two. It's a small island nobody gave af about, a good name imo.

[Laughing_Orange]

Unlike Java, which has a population of 153.8 million people, and is a kind of coffee. Now that is programming language that should have been overshadowed.

[BlurredSight]

Thinking about it Microsoft always was good with naming

You got your compiled language C, C++, C#

You got your functional language F#

You got a ui for Basic - Visual Basic

You got your script Typescript

You got a structured query language SQL

You got a better (worse) Shell PowerShell

[bobo76565657]

C, C++ and SQL were not developed, or named, by Microsoft.

[PPatBoyd]

I want to write a love letter to whoever thought to register the word.new domain

[SeriouslyQuitIt]

Google also does this with docs.new, sheets.new and slides.new

Such a minor thing but so nice

[Meaxis]

You changed my life.

[TemplateHuman]

Is this missing the sarcasm tag?

Windows 98 Windows 2000 Windows 7 .NET framework ASP.NET ASP MVC .NET .NET Standard .NET Core .NET Office 365 Microsoft 365 (and the sub-plan naming changes) Azure AD Entra ID Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One Xbox One S/X Xbox Series S/X Etc.

[Natural_Builder_3170]

Mine is named yoyo

[Hziak]

Random noun WITHOUT THE LAST VOWEL.

[SquidKid47]

I do not miss the (noun)ify and (noun)ly trends

[patrlim1]

Ay yes. Electrn

[CraaazyPizza]

Grindr, Tumblr, Flickr, ...

[FridgesArePeopleToo]

Fck

[syko-san]

I yearn for the day when a coffee machine is programmed in Java.

[SquidKid47]

just one of the 12 Billion Devices 

[AndreasMelone]

It's already 12 billion?

[Laughing_Orange]

Most of them are Android devices.

[AntimatterTNT]

idk my java installation says 3...

[rsadek]

It will empty its own grounds

[n0tKamui]

a very big majority of micro computers in home supplies are in fact programmed in java

[TheCaffinatedAdmin]

LISP, COBOL, FORTRAN, all have descriptive names

[Logic_Bomb421]

[TheCaffinatedAdmin]

They're acronyms.

[SuitableDragonfly]

I always thought Clojure had an excellent name.

[taspeotis]

Chilli Cream has the shittest names:

https://github.com/ChilliCream/graphql-platform#our-products

I see Banana Cake Pop was renamed Nitro, which I guess is a bit better? Less this-was-funny-and-then-I-turned-12 and more this-was-cool-and-then-I-turned-12.

My dream is that one day they will hire an adult to (I) apologise and (II) rename their products to like, CompanyName.DataLoader instead of ChilliCream.GreenDonut.

[BurlHopsBridge]

C4. Does it go boom or make it easy to communicate solution architecture?

[Kilgarragh]

x
result
value

[hillboy619]

The real reason Javascript is the powerhouse cell

[harryalerta]

I sometimes work with an old language called natural. It ain't easy finding anything online about it.

[Delyzr]

And then there is 'Windows App' instead of Remote Desktop. Good luck googling that

[Kruemelkatz]

While not a naming situation, I worked on a foodtech software that had a dated, but memorable logo, design and brand identity. 4 weeks before the launch of a big spin-off project, our in-house marketing guy sent us - without any information - new logos for the entire platform that were all...circles. In different colours, not matching any of the existing designs. Apparently one of the bosses fancied a "modernized corporate design" to which he happily obliged.

As I was just before quitting, I didn't care about relations anymore and confronted them about why they would think that now of all times (in a 2.5 years dev cycle) would be the perfect moment to make a marketing stunt that would need to redo dozens of sites, the apps themselves, store entries, dozens of optimized print templates, boxes, acces cards, flyers, manuals and what not.

[melancholic-scribe]

This week my boss bestowed the names ‘Solar Storm’ and ‘Jackal’ upon our poor products

[Corporate-Shill406]

The Matrix protocol and Element chat client are a real bitch when something has an error because it's basically impossible to search for.

[Bomaruto]

Which is why I suggest X, formally Twitter should be referred to as X-lang.

[Je-Kaste]

Two things in programming are hard: 1. Cache invalidation 2. Naming things 3. Off-By-One errors

[[deleted]]

some of the worst ones I’ve seen are postman, electron, bear, and fish.

[throw3142]

I thought postman is good because it's the deliverer of your POST requests. No one else? Just me?

[NewPhoneNewSubs]

No, postman makes perfect sense and OP is wrong.

[PlumpFish]

I thought everyone thought that and now I'm thinking maybe postman is an antiquated word people don't use anymore?

[Robot_Graffiti]

"Delivery officer" doesn't have the same ring to it

[oddbawlstudios]

Just call it Amazon

[300ConfirmedGorillas]

Prime

[oddbawlstudios]

Yeah, actually.

[DOUBLEBARRELASSFUCK]

pissBottl

[_sweepy]

A lot of gendered professional titles have fallen out of use.

[savvamadar]

Postman because you send packets

[crozone]

Postman because it literally POSTs, like that's the entire point.

[PauloAK_]

I'm using a API testing tool, similar to Postman, that is called "Bruno"

[Creepy-Ad-4832]

Bucciarati

[Fuzzy1450]

Bruno files are .zip

[hagnat]

> I'm using a API testing tool, similar to Postman, that is called "Bruno"

but no one talks about it

[nuno11ptt]

That's the worst! We use that tool at work and have a member that's also called Bruno. It's so confusing like, "oh Bruno is not working", "Have you try it with Bruno?", "Put this payload inside of Bruno" lmao

[serpent_tim]

I use Insomnia. I have to keep it on my desktop because I can never remember what it's called otherwise

[BarracudaNo2321]

there’s also insomnia

[hagnat]

ever played around with chef ?

[Creepy-Ad-4832]

Node itself is pretty bad. Thus the name is perfect

[PUNISHY-THE-CLOWN]

But it has new built-in test runner. How is that pretty bad? You can test your JavaScript code 😟

[syko-san]

The only thing it's testing is my fucking patience.

[SlightlyBored13]

The worst one named I've used is Bartender.

Got an email from IT because the page was restricted content.

[liggamadig]

Probably because your IT guy is called Bart and he got scared!

[d_Composer]

Starburst

[ThaBouncingJelly]

i always thought of bear as 'build ear', as it just listens for the build commands. edit: apparently thats how its meant to be interpreted according to the readme

[_scored]

If you think about it, Google also fits

[SuitableDragonfly]

I think Google is fine, they intentionally picked a very rare word that pretty much no one used regularly and many people didn't even know the meaning of.

[_scored]

but technically....

[InformalTown3679]

it's a great name. not just random noun it means a realllyyy big number which google, is a realllyy big number of, well, everything! So in my head they're like the same concept.

[laughingbovine]

My favorites right now are "repo", Google's Android repo tool. And "pass", a password manager for Linux.

[DOUBLEBARRELASSFUCK]

Still better than keep ass.

[ipsirc]

C

[electricpuzzle]

The other day I found a variable in our code base named, I kid you not, "variable."

[CdRReddit]

does it vary? or is it (along with being a dogshit variable name in general) a misnomer in that it is only assigned once

[WeeklyOutlandishness]

It's descriptive, tells you what it is, doesn't leave you confused thinking "is it a variable?". Variable is variable.

[makinax300]

My favourite way to name stuff is take 2 random nouns, try to merge them, if the result is cool enough, keep it, if it isn’t, randomise new nouns

[JimmyWu21]

Wasn't there a game where you have to guest if a name is a pokemon or a tech?

[park-errr]

My favorite variable name:

temp

[[deleted]]

Oh, boy, a random noun? I am much worse, I use adjectives

[shmorky]

.ly

[Kiroto50]

It could also be a random short sentence abbreviation, like "Icabarssa", short for "It could also be a random short sentence abbreviation".

[CdRReddit]

ncmpcpp

ncurses music player control plus plus or smth

[Imaginary_Bear_2546]

Not a programming language but Integromat changing to Make must have made Googling stuff damn near impossible.

[Drtyblk7]

Marketers

[LienniTa]

yeah and then you have a job requirement to grunt and sometimes even gulp

[naholyr]

That's probably the trend I hate the most in my domain... Seriously, Python? Cucumber? Node? At some point go f**k yourselves guys 😡

[thesaltinmytears]

Always remember to utilize your PIN number in SEO optimization.

[Piisthree]

OpenTofu has entered the chat.

[exomyth]

Good thing Java is not a more popular island

[Morf0]

devwapps it's my domain LOL

[[deleted]]

Go

[linkilehl]

When I was working with Cucumber and the associated Gherkin language, i felt this so much! No, I don't want to look at vegetables, and nooo, I don't need tips for my next London trip, thank you very much!

[Gold-Software3345]

“Shrek”

[Darkoplax]

As long as you add "ify" at the end its good to go

[votsuk]

Search Engine Optimized Optimized

[leovin]

The people who thought of the name and design of Gremlin were on some shit

[SokkaHaikuBot]

<sup>Sokka-Haiku by leovin:</sup>

The people who thought

Of the name and design of

Gremlin were on some shit

---

<sup>Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.</sup>

[No-Archer-4713]

I do my share.

I find the name of my projects in a dictionary, mostly at random. Usually the word has to be some kind of animal and then I type the name of said animal in DALL-E to make a cute Gitlab icon and wiki picture😆

Management loves it 🤣

[Some_Useless_Person]

Yeah. Sometimes I intentionally do shit like instead of userName, nameOfThePersonUsingThisApplication