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Purple Mastadon. Shivering Shrew. Quick Penguin. What is the source?
raindog308
Administrator, Veteran
in General
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?
Comments
https://github.com/usmanbashir/haikunator#language-ports
Pretty much every Linux system has a dictionary file at
/usr/share/dict/wordsor/usr/dict/wordsso they probably just pick random words from that.On a default Debian installation in English, it's symlinked to
/etc/dictionaries-common/wordswhich is itself symlinked to/usr/share/dict/american-english(unless you uninstall thewamericanpackage).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