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Stories by MooseyAnon on Medium is a personal blog at mooseyanon.medium.com about programming and career. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “GitHub, fuck your name change”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Medium blog's GitHub post, which covers renaming branches and offensive terminology in tech. One commenter calls it a great take on that debate.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- GitHub, fuck your name change6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-03-17
What Hacker News says?
That article doesn't support the headline. The closest it gets is saying nobody asked her beforehand, but she doesn't say after the fact that she wants people to stop. Meanwhile, from the people who actually bothered to talk to her[1]: > In her view, the photograph is an immense accomplishment that just happened to take on a life of its own. “I’m really proud of that picture,” she said. This whole situation reminds…
Comment linking /github-f-ck-your-name-change-de599033bbbe
on “Ethically Sourced Lena Picture”Submitted GitHub, fuck your name change as a story · 3353 points
HN discussion"The term man (from Proto-Germanic *mann- "person") and words derived from it can designate any or even all of the human race regardless of their sex or age." [1] As with most things Google does this will set some kind of precedent that a non-trivial subset may follow on with. Where does this stop though? Human -> Huperson? What do we rename the `kill` command to? How will that affect scripts that use it? The result…
Comment linking /github-f-ck-your-name-change-de599033bbbe
on “Word usage guidance and alternative terms”Submitted Reflections on Quitting My Job as a story · 8 points
HN discussionhttps://mooseyanon.medium.com/github-f-ck-your-name-change-d...
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on “Show HN: Use GitHub Actions to serve a serverless service”Submitted Developers Should Learn Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhile I am a little surprised by some of the words on the list, as a WEIRD [1] white hetero male I do not think my opinion on some of the terms is earned. What I would really like to know, however, is if people from various backgrounds have been consulted. If not, the authors of that list have fallen to the very same fallacy I described: only a person of background X should have the right to decide whether an expres…
Comment linking /github-f-ck-your-name-change-de599033bbbe
on “Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative”https://mooseyanon.medium.com/github-f-ck-your-name-change-d... had a greate take on this. > We’re going to change the branch name because it could be seen as offensive but we’re still going to sell police facial recognition software that is biased against black people and women. Facial recognition software that misidentifies black people as gorillas. Facial recognition software that was used to identify unmasked BL…
Comment linking /github-f-ck-your-name-change-de599033bbbe
on “‘Master,’ ‘Slave’ and the Fight over Offensive Terms in Computing”