Mo Bitar Mar 7, 2024

I am starting a Mastodon campaign 

Every time I see a post with only the #Rust tag, I will kindly ask the poster to use #RustLang instead πŸ˜‡

My feed is full with unrelated content about the film, the game and of course photography of rusty metal 🀬

I will also only post using the #RustLang tag starting from now 😀

You can join me! πŸ€—

The goal is to let the usage of the #Rust tag vanish so people can only follow #RustLang πŸ˜ƒ

Show threadMo Bitar May 20, 2024

The above campaign about promoting the #RustLang tag instead of #Rust failed. At least I will not try to push it anymore 😞

Newcomers often just use the #Rust tag first. So the correction will never end.

Decentralization has its bad sides. Are there any ideas to improve the situation of using a too general tag on #Mastodon?

Thanks for your support anyway πŸ€—

Show threadMo Bitar 

To all developers, not only of programming languages: Please pick a unique name for your software 

Python, Rust, Go, Julia, etc are bad names for searchability 

Pick a name where you get almost no results on a search engine. Something like OxiTraffic. Not the most sexy name, but unique. I searched for the name first before choosing it.

May 20, 2024 at 3:11pmWeb
Show threadAlvaro  May 20, 2024
@mo8it R is a fun one 😬
Show threadMadMike77May 20, 2024
@mo8it once in a while I wonder why I've got pictures of rusty objects and abandoned places in my timeline... 🀷
Show threaddorotaCMay 20, 2024
@mo8it Better not look at GNOME.
Show threadTimothy WolodzkoMay 20, 2024
@mo8it No. First of all, picking a name is not about searchability. If it were, the best name would be a long chain of completely random characters (100% unique). Even brands and commercial products, that want to be easily discoverable because they make money on it, don't do it like this. Second, searchability is not about unique names. 1001 factors influence your position in search results.
Show threadMoritz Poldrack May 20, 2024
@mo8it any search for LaTeX is a gamble whether you get what you are looking for, or some kinky clothing.
Show threadMo Bitar May 20, 2024
@mpldr Julia and LaTeX are a good combination xD
Show threadMoritz Poldrack May 20, 2024
@mo8it I mean, the second result was https://juliapackages.com/c/latex not too bad. The image tab is more of the expected though.
LaTeX.jl

One stop shop for the Julia package ecosystem.

Julia Packages
Show threadMark Nichols (LGBTQIA+ Ally)May 21, 2024
@mo8it How about the Chef infrastructure automation tool. Its command line tool is called "knife”, the code is made up of recipes that are collected in cookbooks. Oh, and test kitchen is, you guessed it, where you can test.
Show threadπŸ’‘πš‚π—†π–Ίπ—‹π—π—†π–Ίπ—‡ π™°π—‰π—‰π—ŒπŸ“±May 21, 2024

@mo8it
"Pick a name where you get almost no results on a search engine"

Similar issue with dotNetMAUI and Maui - never liked the name from the beginning for that very reason (but MS people thought it was a real cool name. Argh).