A long time ago I wrote a little web app that takes a search string and finds all the words in the dictionary that have overlap with its spelling. Sort of a portmanteau generator. It was just a fun project at the time, but I have used it on countless occasions to brainstorm unique names for projects, websites, etc.

You can try it from the link below. Just type any word or name and it will populate the results.

https://dev.djdupriest.org/name-combinator/index.html

Somebody call Randall Munroe.

Poor VR support. I’d probably switch if it ever becomes stable.

Smullyan would be proud.

Squid: “Nobody at home’s ever gonna believe this.”

First I just want to say, that is a damn beautiful website. No ads, no popups, just pure information.

And second, as a former back end developer who has spent a huge amount of time working on input sanitization and building database schemas, that list gave me mild PTSD for a job I have never even had.

Somethin’ like a fish.

Me too. Whenever I get a complement on it from a stranger I instantly know we will get along.

Integrated development environment, or a glorified code editor. Your welcome for introducing you to the phobia.

The dog died

I am glued to my IDE more often than not, including weekends. Lemmy is my little respite to get a random sampling of posts on all kinds of topics. Don’t get me wrong, I think AI generated images are pretty fascinating. It’s just that some can trigger a trypophobia type response with their eerie realism.

I really wish these nightmare fuel AI images were tagged NSFW.

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