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What's the most creative module or class name you have seen?

Molly Struve (she/her) on March 06, 2019

At Kenna, we have a module called Mr. Radar. We use it to run two cron jobs, one nightly and one every 30 min. Each job looks for anomalies in data...
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Aaron Powell

I love naming things for my own internal jokes, even if no one else will! 🀣

I have an OSS project (in C#) where the IoC container is called ShittyIoC because it's a really poor implementation of a container (but served my needs). That project also has an interface for implementing help called IProvideDirections.

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Molly Struve (she/her)

IProvideDirections πŸ™ŒπŸ˜‚

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n0idea

IProvideDirections is brilliant. πŸ˜‚

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Tyler V. (he/him)

My favorite is a friend of mine was showing me a Python program that he had written for one of his Physics classes, but instead of a main() he had Baymax(). When I asked why it was named that, his reply was "Because it is not fast"

Baymax hugging Hiro

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Molly Struve (she/her)

πŸ˜‚ I love that and I love Baymax!

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maccappo • Edited

In a team project I worked on, I used to name all classes I extended with "Bat...". Then CString became BatCString, CComboBox became BatCComboBox, and so. Noone ever knew that to me that empowered classes were my "Bat" tools, named after the cool stuff used by Batman (Batmobile, batarang, and so).

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Molly Struve (she/her)

I'm in love with that naming convention!!!!

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Heiker

I like folktale. A set of utility functions and data structures for people who likes functional programming style in javascript. It's cool because the data structures that implements live in fantasy land.

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Tyler V. (he/him)

This is a really fun repo!

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Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer

haha nice one βœ”

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Rafael Medeiros

Once I needed a class to purge orphan records in a MongoDB Collections. I called it Anakyn.

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Ian Wilson

I came here for Mr. Radar. I am pleased to see that you have a module called Mr. Radar. I'm now tempted to write one called BlazingSaddles or KeepFiringAssholes.

I'm uncertain if it would pass code review.

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Molly Struve (she/her)

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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Chris Stringer

we have a suite of modules which applies quite monochromatic color contrast themes to the app (white on blue, red on white, etc.) which is affectionately named Warhol πŸ™‚πŸŽ¨

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Sophie The Lionhart

I wrote a model to see how fast new family names can die out and it had lovely things like getMostPlentifulGender() or I have an issue open for better incest detection... Had some weird vars going on haha.

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Marcos Aguilera Ely

fuckingMunator because that class was a messy and nightmare to refactor the code.

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Daragh Byrne

IAmSparacus was always a fave