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It was a great opportunity to name a unix tool "mcfly" or just "Marty" for time manipulation. Better luck next time, I guess.

• burntsushi 4mo ago
  That's... not terrible. Biff isn't exactly popular (yet?), so a name change isn't out of the question. Both of those names (and `biff`) are already taken on crates.io. Which is maybe not a huge problem. IDK. Naming is hard.
  • Terretta 4mo ago
    https://crates.io/search?q=bttf https://crates.io/search?q=bttf // backronym bttf stands for biff time to format
    • burntsushi 4mo ago
      I like this
      • christoff12 4mo ago
        also: back to the future
        • bbkane 4mo ago
          Burntsushi to the future
        • nicce 4mo ago
          Intersting to notice that the name has been changed now when reading the post 12h late :-D
      • hnlmorg 4mo ago
        This is the fastest rebranding after a Show HN I think I’ve seen haha
    • burntsushi 4mo ago
      You win the naming contest. The project has been renamed: https://github.com/BurntSushi/bttf/pull/14 https://github.com/BurntSushi/bttf/pull/14
      • burntsushi 4mo ago
        @dang - Could you update the post title please to say "bttf" instead of "Biff"? Thank you!
        • sphars 4mo ago
          I don't think @ tags have any effect on HN, you'll want to email the mods directly: hn@ycombinator.com
  • mehackernewsacc 4mo ago
    Naming is hard, sure, but doing some due diligence up front to see what's already being used isn't very difficult. Very neat tool.
    • burntsushi 4mo ago
      I did. I always do. I just missed this one. Or if I saw it, it didn't register for me and felt like it was just an old archaic tool. Which... is probably still true, but I under-estimated its mindshare. Just an honest unknown unknown.
• dredmorbius 4mo ago
  docbrown would be more appropriate, as the character who's actually doing the time manipulation.