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https://crates.io/search?q=bttf // backronym bttf stands for biff time to format
I like this
This is the fastest rebranding after a Show HN I think I’ve seen haha
Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife
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From the excellent "A Quarter Century of UNIX" (by the late Peter H. Salus): Heidi would bring her dog with her to class and to her office. He was a very friendly dog, and a lot of the students enjoyed throwing a ball for him down the corridor to fetch. He even had his picture on the bulletin board with the graduate students: the legend read that he was working on his Ph.Dog. John decided to name the program after th…
Yeah this was before my time. I never did email from a terminal. Which probably explains why I was okay with naming it Biff. In any case, I've renamed the project to bttf: https://github.com/BurntSushi/bttf/pull/14
I dont think it's part of the unix standard. Biff sounds perfect
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From the excellent "A Quarter Century of UNIX" (by the late Peter H. Salus): Heidi would bring her dog with her to class and to her office. He was a very friendly dog, and a lot of the students enjoyed throwing a ball for him down the corridor to fetch. He even had his picture on the bulletin board with the graduate students: the legend read that he was working on his Ph.Dog. John decided to name the program after th…
Yeah this was before my time. I never did email from a terminal. Which probably explains why I was okay with naming it Biff. In any case, I've renamed the project to bttf: https://github.com/BurntSushi/bttf/pull/14
Thank you for helping maintain the Unix lore.
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As the author of a different project also named Biff, I do have to warn you that half the comments on your HN posts will be people quoting back to the future--though I haven't decided yet if that's annoying or an engagement hack! [1] https://github.com/jacobobryant/biff
Back to the Future jokes never get old. I love it. I still want one of those hover boards!
hellooo short-shorts
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You win the naming contest. The project has been renamed: https://github.com/BurntSushi/bttf/pull/14
@dang - Could you update the post title please to say "bttf" instead of "Biff"? Thank you!
I don't think @ tags have any effect on HN, you'll want to email the mods directly: hn@ycombinator.com
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Yeah this was before my time. I never did email from a terminal. Which probably explains why I was okay with naming it Biff. In any case, I've renamed the project to bttf: https://github.com/BurntSushi/bttf/pull/14
I dont think it's part of the unix standard. Biff sounds perfect
My decisions about naming aren't limited or prescribed by what is in a standard or not. :-)
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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.
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.
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.
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also made ripgrep
So this is who I get to "blame" for LLMs constantly saying "I want to use `rg` but I see that it's not installed on this system...".
ripgrep is a required dependency of codex when installing it via brew on macOS. So you should at least not see it if you fall into that scenario. :-)
Re: Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife
#70Everyone talking about "biff" should be aware that it's actually "bttf" like "back to the future"