It's even worse than it appears..
Tuesday August 22, 2023; 9:36 AM EDT
appConsts.urlTwitterServer#
  • When I started building my Node.js codebase nine years ago, one of the first things I did was build a server to connect to Twitter for identity and to allow my apps to post stuff to Twitter. #
  • Over time more functionality was added to this blob of server software, because it was easier to add it to a server that I was already running, than to create a new server for each new function. Eventually I cleaned it up and properly modularized things, but the name stuck. The server was still named appConsts.urlTwitterServer in my client software. It was never on my todo list to come up with a better name for it. #
  • Anyway at the end of last year I had to get my ass off Twitter asap, and I did it pretty cleanly, but the name persists. I just had to use it in a bit of maintenence for FeedLand. I thought this could be the day, that for just this one app, I could give it a new name. I thought about it for a few seconds and deleted the idea. I decided to write a blog post instead. There's only so much damage I can do in a blog post. #
  • And anyway, who's to say the name Twitter isn't now in the public domain? #
  • Maybe we should start naming all kinds of things Twitter. #
  • Just a thought. #

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