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by wbsun 552 days ago
The magic and mighty asdfasdf..., it is like foo/bar in naming, Alice/Bob in security, deadbeef in bit ops.
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My order is, and has been for decades: foo, bar, baz... and then I don't know anymore and make stuff up.
quux is my go-to after baz, sometimes I'll throw in a frob for good measure...
foo, bar, baz, quux, fleem ... then I get stuck.

Well, more usually, then I ask myself wtf I'm doing that needs that many metasyntactic variables and try and figure out an approach that doesn't.

(I have no idea whatsoever where I got fleem from anymore)

My favorite is lakjsdf... Since I just press random keys on the home row.
Just realized that one can make up a lot of plausible JS library names without leaving the home row.