Is it just me or the name is a wee bit insensitive?
hopefully it's just you
Show HN: PatchGirl – QA for Web Developers
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Re: Show HN: PatchGirl – QA for Web Developers
#12I would avoid gender-izing business or product names. There is a trend in the tech industry to remove gender and racial terms from our dictionary. examples: factory girl was renamed to "factory bot". https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/921 github is renaming `master` git branches to `main` https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-...
I'd rather my product name fly in the face of that crap, to be honest, since I feel like avoiding it is condoning bad behavior.
Re: Show HN: PatchGirl – QA for Web Developers
#13I would avoid gender-izing business or product names. There is a trend in the tech industry to remove gender and racial terms from our dictionary. examples: factory girl was renamed to "factory bot". https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/921 github is renaming `master` git branches to `main` https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-...
Author here!
Never realized that was why factory-girl changed its name... That's interesting thank you!
PatchGirl was initially only a rest client so it was just a stupid pun (because of postman). But it stick and now I like the name :-P
Re: Show HN: PatchGirl – QA for Web Developers
#14I would avoid gender-izing business or product names. There is a trend in the tech industry to remove gender and racial terms from our dictionary. examples: factory girl was renamed to "factory bot". https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/921 github is renaming `master` git branches to `main` https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-...
How did we progress from "two genders" to "unlimited genders" to "no genders"?!
The two genders people backlashed against the unlimited genders and there was then a war between them - the unlimited genders want references to the two genders to be removed as they seem to promote the viewpoint that two genders exist and not unlimited.
Companies and powerful organizations are wary of the unlimited genders people as there is a worry that they may control enough economic power to make things unpleasant, therefore any organization that is not strongly on the two genders team chooses no genders as the compromise in the war.
Re: Show HN: PatchGirl – QA for Web Developers
#15I don't fully understand what this is.
This seems to be a tool to allow me to semi-automate repetitive tasks that access a REST API; is that correct? Can I download it and fill it in with my own endpoints, etc?
Re: Show HN: PatchGirl – QA for Web Developers
#16I would avoid gender-izing business or product names. There is a trend in the tech industry to remove gender and racial terms from our dictionary. examples: factory girl was renamed to "factory bot". https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/921 github is renaming `master` git branches to `main` https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-...
Author here! Never realized that was why factory-girl changed its name... That's interesting thank you! PatchGirl was initially only a rest client so it was just a stupid pun (because of postman). But it stick and now I like the name :-P
Shouldn’t you have gone with “PatchWoman” if you were playing off of “PostMan”?
Re: Show HN: PatchGirl – QA for Web Developers
#17I don't get the gender backlash here, personification has been a thing for a long time and there doesn't seem to be any malfeasance (intended or otherwise) here. It's not lewd, doesn't play to stereotypes, etc.
To me, a basic litmus test is whether you could easily swap the gender without reworking anything. If you can't, it's probably offensive, if you can it's practically gender neutral (naming aside). It's not a catch all, obviously, as it's no replacement for awareness of history, culture, stereotypes etc.
It's easy enough to maintain a rebranded mirror synced to upstream. Instead people seem to want to take offense just for the sake of virtue signaling.
Re: Show HN: PatchGirl – QA for Web Developers
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
How did we progress from "two genders" to "unlimited genders" to "no genders"?!
The two genders people backlashed against the unlimited genders and there was then a war between them - the unlimited genders want references to the two genders to be removed as they seem to promote the viewpoint that two genders exist and not unlimited. Companies and powerful organizations are wary of the unlimited genders people as there is a worry that they may control enough economic power to make things unpleasa…
If somebody wants to be a girl or a boy, or some creator wants to call their creation a boy or a girl - what's wrong with either? Again, we're spending a tremendous amount of energy and attention on things that future generations will laugh at. This is no similar than the billions of people who can't learn to wear a face mask properly. We're the laughing stock of the future. Should I refer to my boy or girl to they to be PC-compliant, too? How shameful is to associate your children with specific genders, right? As typical flawed humans, we're blowing everything out of proportion, we keep pressing and pressing, until matters burst into uncontrollable chaos!
Re: Show HN: PatchGirl – QA for Web Developers
#19I don't fully understand what this is. This seems to be a tool to allow me to semi-automate repetitive tasks that access a REST API; is that correct? Can I download it and fill it in with my own endpoints, etc?
Kind of :-)
The idea behind PatchGirl is to allow developers to combine REST and SQL requests to populate your database to a desired state.
The goal is to make "database seeding" and "API testing" reproducible and ease manual testing :-)
All PatchGirl's features are enabled by running a little proxy (called patchgirl-runner) on your computer which you can find here https://github.com/patchgirl/patchgirl/releases/tag/v3.0.0
Feedbacks are much appreciated!!
Re: Show HN: PatchGirl – QA for Web Developers
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Author here! Never realized that was why factory-girl changed its name... That's interesting thank you! PatchGirl was initially only a rest client so it was just a stupid pun (because of postman). But it stick and now I like the name :-P
Shouldn’t you have gone with “PatchWoman” if you were playing off of “PostMan”?
PatchGirl felt kind of neat to me!
Back then, I pictured a young rebel pirate girl on a boat filled with adults (postman, pow, insomnia, ...) and she just looked cool in my head :-P