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I thought they were contributing to the Python web framework called Tornado (quite popular especially before asyncio caught on, but still well-known nowadays).



I was like "what's a tornado repo? a reference I don't know about to a whirlwind of activity? maybe a bot attack of some kind."

+1 disambiguation needed


Some of my repos look like they were hit by a tornado and frankly deserve to be deleted


When your code is so bad that the US Government sanctions you, specifically


i thought it was like a tornado warnings repo


Just reading the comments, I also was thinking this was about Python's tornado library until I recognized it wasn't that. The title needs improvement.

CC @dang


I emailed a title suggestion switching to "... Tornado Cash ..." for clarification.

I wish typing "cc @dang" did something, but to the best of my knowledge it does not / isn't monitored vs email.


Same. Confusing title.




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