6 ms·
It's 100% intentional wordplay! "Doxxing" documents by exposing their contents in the terminal instead of keeping them locked in Microsoft Word. The whole proje
by w108bmg 1y ago
It's 100% intentional wordplay! "Doxxing" documents by exposing their contents in the terminal instead of keeping them locked in Microsoft Word. The whole project is about "liberation from Office" so the pun felt perfect. I'm honestly not too creative so I was bouncing around with Google Gemini on some "clever" names.
- rafram 1y agoSome people may not want to have a tool called "doxx" installed on their work machines, FWIW.
- KomoD 1y agoThis is such a non-issue, it's just a name. If someone asks about it "It's a tool to view docx files", end of conversation
- 8organicbits 1y agoWe've got `git` (an insult), `kill` (violent), `slack` (not doing work) and `fsck` (looks like fuck). Doxx seems ok to me too.
- paavope 1y agoI've seen the `itsdangerous` [1] package (which is a dependency for lot of Python projects) raise some eyebrows several times. [1] https://itsdangerous.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/ https://itsdangerous.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/
- jahsome 1y agoI get the sense you've never worked under the oppresive thumb of dashboard-driven enterprise IT, heh