Wow, I wrote this code so long ago it's got the wrong name in the credits!

(the code is 7 months old)

It's normal to have published source/software under FIVE different names, right?

1. A few very early bits of code under my birth name (1998-2003)
2. A few VN extractors & APNG hate code under my 4chan nickname, late 2000s
3. A bunch of software under my 3D Movie Maker name (1999-2008ish)
4. Everything else from 2008-2026 under Foone Turing
5. Everything since April 2025 under Alice Averlong.

God I hope I'm not forgetting anything. I have more names than this but I don't think I published any software as them

@foone Yeah that's a thing :-P

@foone when you need version control to keep track of your own names

I get a new name approximately every decade and I'm 41 and I've been coding since before I had a computer to touch, so I've published a LOT of shit under a LOT of names

Maybe I should start my own calendar system, like how the japanese era names work, but based on my own names?

(after all, I'm a pope, creating new calendars is one of my jobs)

We're currently in the year of Alice 0, with Alice 1 starting January 1st.

@foone never published code, but I support new online names.

@foone rookie numbers rookie numbers

@foone Five different names... *so far* :D

@foone china has historically had multiple eras within the rule of a single emperor, so it's not entirely out of the blue.

@noisytoot I was very mad about APNG when it came out and how badly mozilla acted with regards to deploying it as a web standard, so one of the things I did was write some code for a couple different languages to make it easier for people to block APNGs from being uploaded to their site.

4chan deployed it, as did a couple other imageboards I was connected to.

@foone @superflippy nope, it’s Alice 1 NOW. Anathema! The schism starts now!

@revndm @foone @superflippy, schism no. 2: it doesn't start 1 January. Instead, it starts on 1 January.

@foone names alice, who lives in a pile of keyboards adn has 5 million names,

@revndm @superflippy hell yeah, schism time!

@foone @noisytoot i wanna know more about what mozilla did there

@lp0_on_fire @foone @superflippy

@foone
Does that mean everything before is B.A.E.? Before Alice Era?

@heathen_cat No, it's just a different era.

1983 is Jesus 1983 (or Common 1983 if you're nasty)
1984 and onward are the <deadname> era, then 2000 we switch to Travis Wells 1, which lasts until 2007, and <4chan name> 1 starts with 2008, with 2012 being Foone 1, up until this year, Alice 0.

@foone The big question: Do you zero-index your eras? Are we in year zero or year one of The Alice Era?

@Canageek Of course they're zero indexed, I'm a programmer!

The year I take on the name, it's Year 0, then Year 1 begins on the first of the next year.

@foone How is the final/ first year of the new name labeled? If you change your name on November 3rd, when does year 2 start? Do they match the calendar year, or does the next 365 days start with the name change?

@Canageek
The final year technically has two names. It's the old era, and 0 of the next era.
So this year is Alice 0 (since I name changed back in march/april), but it's also Foone 13.

@foone Very sensible

@foone I'm also curious what apng hate code is, I recall people talking about it as replacement for gif, but it never seemed to catch on

okay I made a spreadsheet to explain my Era System

@Canageek I just was pissed at mozilla for how they rolled APNG out at the time, and wrote some code to keep APNGs out of several sites

@foone 3D Movie Maker!

@foone are you implying yourself to be an abrahamic prophet

@rudi No, I'm just a pope.

@foone i mean i know you're a pope but being a prophet is a whole different ballgame

@foone naming Gantt chart

@foone If you repurpose names, do they get epithets? 4chan the Lame, Alice the Elder?

@Rgsharpe that'd be neat. so far I've never reused names, though

@foone oh dear, how can people even get it right if they travel in time?

@foone So what you're saying is you've been hogging all the names for yourself, is what you're saying.

@ryan yes.

@foone "et al" should cover it

@foone see also: having a billion different keys under different names on pgp keyservers