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Re:Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client fo... by kortex on Monday July 01, 2024 @03:14PM (#40849413)
What's stupid about it?

Dig was an early and widespread DNS CLI tool. "dog" is a logical name for a next-gen dns cli, and of course that exists. "Doggo" is both a pretty standard linguistic drift pattern of English slang (random -> rando, weird -> weirdo), a common internet term of endearment for "dog", and a logical derivation of *-go for go-based tools and software.

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Re:Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client fo... by sadops on Monday July 01, 2024 @11:01PM (#40853188)
Surprised nobody went for "dug", à la DigDug.
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