| ▲ | 8,400 GitHub repos share a naming convention that traces back to South Park joke(github.com) | |||||||
| 4 points by robbyrussell 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ||||||||
| ▲ | robbyrussell 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
I know this because I'm the guy in the middle. Let me explain. 2006: Trey Parker and Matt Stone write "Oh My Science!" into two Season 10 episodes... a joke about replacing religious expressions with scientific ones. 2008: A coworker and I think this is hilarious. We build a Twitter side project called Oh My Science. It fetched tweets from the API and awarded gold stars to anyone caught thanking science for something they might have otherwise credited to a deity. 2009: I have a messy folder of Zsh configuration files. I want to convince a few coworkers to install it on their laptops so I don't have to remember all the verbose git commands we kept typing while pairing on their machines. I need a name for the repo. I glance over at our oh-my-science private repo. I shrug. "oh-my-zsh" it is. Today, there are 8,400+ public "oh-my-..." repositories on u/GitHub. There's a decent chance you've used one. There's a chance you've built one. If you have, I'd love to know... did you know where the name came from? | ||||||||
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| ▲ | robbyrussell 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
https://github.com/search?q=oh-my-+in%3Aname+is%3Apublic&typ... | ||||||||
| ▲ | damnitbuilds 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
"Oh my god" is a possible alternative source for some of those repo names, as well as the more obscure: | ||||||||