I’m working on a name generation tool that uses 83 structured naming methods. Examples: React (Verb-based), Vue (Obsolete English), Facebook (Compound), Netflix (Portmanteau), Lyft (Creative Misspelling), Alexa (Personal First Name), etc.
I wasn’t happy with the slop generated by the overly general name generators or my own prompting/brainstorming. I went on a tangent and read the top (5) books on naming from Amazon. From there I was able to create very specific and detailed prompts which started producing consistently good names, the odd great one, and a small amount of crud.
Eventually this escalated from a large spreadsheet of detailed prompts to a side project.
Please give it a try, I’d be happy for any feedback on this early version. (I recommend the options tabs for some granular tweaking)
(The name was inspired digital music samplers where there is a lot of rapid experimentation and tweaking similar to this app)
Mid 40s and I can do short tests on Monkeytype at about 145+ WPM with 100% accuracy when conditions line up. My regular daily typing speed is quite a bit lower though.
I use a split ergo keyboard, blank key caps, and correct fingers for every key. I highly recommend all three.
My ideal keyboard would be taking a Magic keyboard (in black or space gray) and splitting it into two. This is the closest I have seen. I'm too committed to a standard layout to go ortho linear at this point, but I admit it looks the most sleek and modern for sure.
> My ideal keyboard would be taking a Magic keyboard (in black or space gray) and splitting it into two.
Me, too. I feel there's a lot of us who want precisely this. I want every key that's on the Magic Keyboard. I already have a number of other Karabiner bindings, like the Hyper key, so I'm adding "layers" that way.
It's being used to this day (or until very recently, at least) in some countries, generally running under dosbox because DOS software can no longer run natively in modern PC OS's.
I've read it a few times. I would recommend reading:
Talk One: Harvard School Commencement Speech (aka Prescription for Guaranteed Misery in life)
Talk Eleven: The Psychology of Human Misjudgement which is the most important talk in the book. Interestingly enough it doesn't have any illustrations or sidebar notes like the other talks.
Super interesting, I didn't know it was a reaction. Looking at Usenet thread screenshots, I think the UX issue with their threads is that they actually listed the title, not the actual message in a branch format. Whereas Reddit has the actual message content in a branch format.
I think the flat sequential thread works fine with a limited number of messages.
Eventually with enough replies it degrades to being very unwieldy like traditional forums.
