Choosing a Name for Your Computer

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  • nsaname

    🕵 Like petname, but for naming secret projects and tools.

  • One of the many nearly useless things I built:

    https://github.com/rbanffy/nsaname

  • awesome-unique-id

    A curated list of awesome Unique IDs

  • My first thought was "all this goes out the window once you scale from pets to livestock," but my second thought was that, of course, we can automate these things, too.

    eg human-readable-id[0] and some others I in a markdown page.[1]

    0. https://www.npmjs.com/package/human-readable-ids

    1. https://github.com/grantcarthew/awesome-unique-id

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • Moby

    The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems

  • Formlabs does this as well for their 3d printers, my earliest encounter of this was when Docker started getting popular: https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/pkg/namesgenerator/...

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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