Purple Mastadon. Shivering Shrew. Quick Penguin. What is the source?

raindog308

I've run into several providers/services where when you provision something, you get a url like green-grapevine.example.com or delighted-shrew.example.com. Recent examples off the top of my head are URLs I've gotten from Netlify and PikaPods (maybe @m4nu can answer).

Is there a standard library that is used for generating these names, or are all these different projects scanning thesauruses and writing their own libraries?

aiden1

https://github.com/usmanbashir/haikunator#language-ports

Daniel15

Pretty much every Linux system has a dictionary file at /usr/share/dict/words or /usr/dict/words so they probably just pick random words from that.

On a default Debian installation in English, it's symlinked to /etc/dictionaries-common/words which is itself symlinked to /usr/share/dict/american-english (unless you uninstall the wamerican package).

GoatSeller

I have 2 lists, one contains adjectives, the other animal names. both can be found on public gists. a simple function generates the name depending on how many adjectives i want.

https://gist.github.com/hugsy/8910dc78d208e40de42deb29e62df913

https://gist.github.com/borlaym/585e2e09dd6abd9b0d0a