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Re: Pygfx

#21

Post by CoastalCoder »

> Pygfx (pronounced “py-graphics”)

Major tangent, but am I the only one who bristles at someone telling me how to pronounce an abbreviation they invented?

I must have encountered this a few times in brand marketing within the tech world and gotten pissed off at feeling manipulated.

Re: Pygfx

#22

Post by gjm11 »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #21

> Pygfx (pronounced “py-graphics”) Major tangent, but am I the only one who bristles at someone telling me how to pronounce an abbreviation they invented? I must have encountered this a few times in brand marketing within the tech world and gotten pissed off at feeling manipulated.

You aren't.

I feel inclined (especially because they're trying to tell me otherwise) to pronounce it in a rather different way which I shall not make explicit here beyond saying that it splits as pyg/fx rather than as py/gfx.

Re: Pygfx

#23

Post by esperent »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #21

> Pygfx (pronounced “py-graphics”) Major tangent, but am I the only one who bristles at someone telling me how to pronounce an abbreviation they invented? I must have encountered this a few times in brand marketing within the tech world and gotten pissed off at feeling manipulated.

I can't say you're the only one, but I've certainly never bristled over this before. Or even spared it any thought. And now that I am thinking about it, I find it quite helpful actually, not bristle-worthy at all. I still have no idea how to pronounce GIF or several other acronyms that I commonly use.

Re: Pygfx

#24

Post by ffsm8 »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #21

> Pygfx (pronounced “py-graphics”) Major tangent, but am I the only one who bristles at someone telling me how to pronounce an abbreviation they invented? I must have encountered this a few times in brand marketing within the tech world and gotten pissed off at feeling manipulated.

You're angry because the author tried to make the library searchable by removing a few letters..?

And they didn't even come up with the gfx shorthand for graphics, its admittedly an old one and barely seen nowadays... But it's always been the sister to sfx/sound effects

Re: Pygfx

#25

Post by anileated »

prideout wrote: post #3

Am I the only one who is irked by by ads on Read the Docs pages?

Let’s put it this way: I would consider myself eligible to be irked by ads on Read the Docs pages if I paid whoever maintains the project.

If they bother you enough, absolutely no one’s going to frown if you estimate how much they would be making on ads from traffic volume yearly, email the maintainer and suggest to pay that in return for turning off the ads for a year.

(Some people might frown if you just block the ads, since after all it is robbing a fellow open-source dev of some income.)

There are two points I am curious about:

— I would like to know if RTD forces the ads. Considering they have a business tier, it would be funny if they had to finance OSS project hosting from ads.

— EthicalAds started as an ad platform for developers, but apparently is now an “AI ad network”. I wonder if Python OSS project owners know about the 180 degree turn that’s happening there…

Re: Pygfx

#26

Post by nighthawk454 »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #21

> Pygfx (pronounced “py-graphics”) Major tangent, but am I the only one who bristles at someone telling me how to pronounce an abbreviation they invented? I must have encountered this a few times in brand marketing within the tech world and gotten pissed off at feeling manipulated.

I mean that seems a bit uncharitable. I don’t think the author communicating their intent behind the name is aggravating or manipulative. It’s simply an explanation. Shouldn’t be worth more than an ‘ah, I see what they’re going for’ and move on.

It’s a sign, not a cop. Doesn’t seem like any undue pressure to control people, or prevent the reader from doing what they will with.

One wonders if the IPA pronunciations on Wikipedia is similarly bristling

Re: Pygfx

#27

Post by nighthawk454 »

hmaarrfk wrote: post #17
blt wrote: post #5

this looks similar to VisPy ( https://vispy.org/ ), are there any major differences?

From the same developer ;)

Oh thanks, I didn’t realize that. Having recently evaluated Vispy that really helps me place what this tool might be for

Re: Pygfx

#28

Post by anileated »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #21

> Pygfx (pronounced “py-graphics”) Major tangent, but am I the only one who bristles at someone telling me how to pronounce an abbreviation they invented? I must have encountered this a few times in brand marketing within the tech world and gotten pissed off at feeling manipulated.

Whether you are a user bristling at a library author telling you how to pronounce the name of the project, or library author bristling at people mispronouncing the name of the project, in OSS world we all have our things to bristle about but differ in our abilities to influence them.

Re: Pygfx

#29

Post by fulafel »

blt wrote: post #5

this looks similar to VisPy ( https://vispy.org/ ), are there any major differences?

Seems this needs a newish graphics driver stack to work.
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