The GNU kernel was not originally supposed to be called the Hurd. Its original name was Alix—named after the woman who was my sweetheart at the time. She, a Unix system administrator, had pointed out how her name would fit a common naming pattern for Unix system versions; as a joke, she told her friends, “Someone should name a kernel after me.” I said nothing, but decided to surprise her with a kernel named Alix.
Refactor them guts. Get naked.
I made my wife a magic mirror.
Have all of your functions named after loved ones and/or nicknames for your genitalia - that way you can say stuff like “muh dick needs to call shawty in order to work”.
duuude, one of my favorite devices ever was a pre-ipod mp3 player (empeg), and it had "wendy filters".. which were essentially 'my girlfriend is in the car, dont play this shit'.. but i seem to recall that was the name of the feature 'wendy filters'
Unit test dummy data is full of it. Need an arbitrary date? Pick a special birthday. Location? Wherever you first met.
Not the most public dedication, but perhaps more impactful than yet another song about the one that got away.
"hello beautiful"
Debian would like a word.
I'm a handy man, I was thinking of you when I was spackling drywall baby.
automate your life's menial tasks
I once made a little animation apology thingy with libGDX for a friend
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