> I’ve been told multiple times in multiple jobs that I’m good at naming things, and I love whimsical names.
As long as you're naming products and features, rather than variables.
oh yeah, definitely. for variables its best to exclusively use obscure unicode.
The winner takes it all!
- if it’s hard to name, that’s a good sign that you haven’t clearly delineated use case or set of responsibilities for the thing
- best case for a name is that it’s weird and whimsical on first encounter. Then when somebody tells you the meaning/backstory for the name it reveals some deeper meaning/history that makes it really memorable and cements it in your mind
- the single best tech naming thing I’ve encountered (I didn’t come up with it) was the A/B testing team at Spotify naming themselves “ABBA”