Numeronyms are fun, but they have one major problem: namespace collision.
What is a11y? Is it accessibility? Associatively? Axiomatically? Autobiography?
This is obviously a problem that needs solving.
My solution? SHAsum hashing.
We can avoid the ambiguity of "a11y" with this unique, cryptographically sound alternative:
Accessibility? a884a5f3609f2cca635fed56d4ec5795da56fb970y
Axiomatically? a20c4bcee8f977a3f5a3b6b499d52d7dd32584771y
Simple, easy to visually distinguish, everyone wins.
I was actually racking my brain for 'starts with a, ends in y, same length' words to make this dumb joke but then I remembered that /usr/share/dict has _huge_ flat-file lists of words of many languages in it, so I could just get them from that?
Ninety seconds of grep, awk and sort later, there it is. For future reference there's 223 of them, alphabetically going from abdominoscopy to axiomatically.
Y'all these computers have so much in them already. _So much_. But nobody knows.
@mhoye @shawnhooper i know, right?! i recently used /usr/share/dict/words to help find the longest word you can type using only the top row of a qwerty keyboard.
There are 3:
proprietory
proterotype
rupturewort
mhoye
Andrew Woods