chapmanjacobd/library

What is "xk"?

yyolk opened this issue · 2 comments

yyolk commented

I just stumbled onto this repository today and think it's pretty cool!

Please excuse my ignorance, what does "xk" stand for in the repository description? As in, "xk media library".

I spent a few minutes searching but I think it might be a code name or old project name.

I wanted to see if I was missing something obvious and thought maybe this was part of a larger ecosystem of stuff, but plan to dive into trying this out nonetheless, as the "autotainment" idea resonates with me.

Thank you!

chapmanjacobd commented

Interesting question!

  • Country code (ISO 3166) of the Republic of Kosovo
  • XKCD?
    • What does XKCD stand for?
      It's not actually an acronym. It's just a word with no phonetic pronunciation -- a treasured and carefully-guarded point in the space of four-character strings.
  • crosswalk: cross is x, walk ends with k. A defunct crowdfunding project but the wiki might have some interesting thoughts. YC somewhat related.

I'm not sure exactly why I felt "crosswalk" needed to have a shortened name but I put those two letters together without thinking about Kosovo or Randall Munroe. But I resurrected that acronym while trying to find a short pypi package name. In some ways xk is my name because it is my username on the computer.

However, I am in the process of renaming the package to library once that becomes available.

yyolk commented

Thank you for the detailed answer :)

I really hope you get the namespace!