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Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by yakshaving_jgt on Monday January 23, 2023 @12:46PM (#34492236)
I'm assuming just about everyone is aware of the meaning of the word.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shite

Kind of depressing that people find this amusing.

Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by adityaathalye on Monday January 23, 2023 @01:12PM (#34492615)
This remark prompted me to go rewatch (make sure you have headphones on)...

this bit of fry and laurie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVe3fTL1cPM

this bit by atkinson and cleese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGFz9gt0-Fc

and this bit by atkinson alone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7OxTxAvvLw

made my day :)

Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by badcppdev on Monday January 23, 2023 @02:12PM (#34493478)
It's sad because it's not hard to pick a name for a project that isn't a swear word.
Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by 082349872349872 on Monday January 23, 2023 @03:35PM (#34494604)
I once had a gig someplace where the tradition was to name Hamming Distance 1 away from swear words. Best of both worlds?
Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by mrlonglong on Monday January 23, 2023 @02:17PM (#34493543)
Oh do one mate quit griping and get with it!
Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by nmeofthestate on Monday January 23, 2023 @04:04PM (#34495004)
I suggest a SFW rename to "connery"
Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by talideon on Monday January 23, 2023 @05:11PM (#34495851)
You might want to look that up in French, but replace the 'y' with 'ie'...
Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by pragmatic8 on Monday January 23, 2023 @08:41PM (#34497947)
Could you please expound on why you believe that to be depressing?
Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by yakshaving_jgt on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:04AM (#34499530)
Sure. It's not the coarse language that I object to — it's the lazy, juvenile humour. It's similar to penisJS[0] — a software analogue to children defacing the chairs in their school classrooms with drawings of genitalia.

I think it's a pretty bad look for the industry.

Not to say there shouldn't be humour — there should be more humour. Personally, my most popular software projects are purely comedic, and they're also a little more coarse than this.

To put it another way: I'd prefer the software humour to be a little more Sean Lock and a little less Beavis and Butt-Head.

[0]: https://github.com/edankwan/penis.js/

Re:Show HN: Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site make... by adityaathalye on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @05:29AM (#34501911)
I hear you. Thank you for sharing your thinking. All I will say is, from where I stand, it is all working as intended; the code and the phraseology :)