Your hyperspecific brainstorming-focused word generator.
I love the unix style of binary names: they either have a cool history behind them, or they're a cute pun.
And see, I'm pretty bad at coming up with those on the spot when creating a new project, so I wanted to have a word generator to aid my inspiration.
Your usual word generator will give you 5 two-letter words before it gives you anything useful though, so I decided to make it give you only the more uncommon words.
With those, I now can generate brainstorming material at will!
It prints a random words to stdout. Very simple.
If you specify a number after the command (uclanr 5), it will print that many random words, separated by spaces.
The words this program uses are ranked by popularity: from 1001st most common word to the 10000th.
From there, I removed all words that are 4 letters long and below, leaving us with words that are at least 5 letters long.
And in the end, we have 7165 possible words. Hyperspecific, I know.
Run uclanr --help to see the help menu.
By default, the random words are joined by a space.
You can change that using --joiner or -j.
It doesn't necessarily have to be a single character.
If you specify \n in --joiner, it's treated as a newline character; \t is a tab character.
Use --raw or -r to disable this functionality.
Use --case or -c to specify the case of the words. Supported values are caps for Capitalized words, title for Title case words and lower for lower case letters which is a default.
I haven't figured out how to publish packages yet, and idk how github releases work; so far I have this barebones solution:
Have git and rust installed
cargo install --git https://github.com/Axlefublr/uclanr.git
``` $ uclanr --help A word generator that specializes in useful words
Usage: uclanr.exe [OPTIONS] [AMOUNT]
Arguments: [AMOUNT] Amount of random words to print [default: 1]
Options:
-j, --joiner
git pull the dev branch before any changes, please