I forked an opensource project to add a couple features for my wife. 😊

Pay for dinner

"Girl, I named no variables after you, because you're my only Constant"

Once when I was still a kid, I told a woman I loved her so much that I could only love her more if she was a robot.

She did not think that was romantic.

You can also combine your names into a Linux distribution.

Deb + Ian = Debian.

The creator of MySQL, MaxDB and MariaDB named them after his children My, Max and Maria, so why not

I made a website for my wife with a list of a ton of reasons why I love her and each time she taps the screen it shows a new one.

So... that is a thing you can do for the cost of a domain name and some cheap hosting.

“The two hardest problems in programming are cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.”

The GNU kernel was not originally supposed to be called the Hurd. Its original name was Alix—named after the woman who was my sweetheart at the time. She, a Unix system administrator, had pointed out how her name would fit a common naming pattern for Unix system versions; as a joke, she told her friends, “Someone should name a kernel after me.” I said nothing, but decided to surprise her with a kernel named Alix.

Source: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.en.html

Name a linux distro after her and yourself. Always works.

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hooking up with artists is hot cuz theyll be like "i thought of you when i wrote this song". what are tech guys gonna do? name a git branch after you? the fuck

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When I was learning programming I wrote a small program that I called for_you.exe. It printed an animated ASCII penis ejaculating on some boobs. I emailed it to my girlfriend and thankfully she thought it was hilarious. We're still together.

MySQL, MariaDB, and MaxScale are all named after Ulf "Monty" Widenius' kids

I use friends and family as sample data for unit/integration tests.

At a previous job, I tested an automated email system by scheduling fake events for various US presidents. I've long left that position, but I never cleaned up the test data. Every month I still get a reminder for Nixon's upcoming reservation at the Watergate Hotel.

I was thinking about you when I cleaned up this codebase and removed a lot of redundant functions.

Unit test dummy data is full of it. Need an arbitrary date? Pick a special birthday. Location? Wherever you first met.

Not the most public dedication, but perhaps more impactful than yet another song about the one that got away.

I’d feel very wooed if my wife named a Linux distro or some open source project of hers after me

Well, I made my girlfriend a GUI app that converts subtitles from Windows-1251 to utf-8 encoding so that she doesn't have to remember how to do it. And I didn't even name it after her...

Make their birthday a magic number

A lot of projects are named after spouses and family lol

I once made a little animation apology thingy with libGDX for a friend