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I could only imagine what the default:'friend' actually is on the backend.

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[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

There is no default:’friend’ on the backend. This is a template language that basically takes a first name, returns the first word, replaces any special characters with ASCII equivalent ones (e.g., ö => o), title cases it, and if it’s blank it will return ‘friend’ instead of an empty string.

[-] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 month ago

There is no default:’friend’ on the backend.

It's deep in so many ways... Indeed, there is no default:'friend' on the backend. 🥲

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

🍻

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 6 points 1 month ago

Seems so. But a } is missing, which is why it's showing like that.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Oops, someone forgot a curly brace!

[-] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Hey, { first_name|truncatewords: 1|slugify|title| default:'friend' } was my father, call me Mike!

[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

What the heck is slugify

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

This is my best guess. I have never used it. NPM and JS are not fun for me. Like look at those dependencies.

[-] SickDisturbence@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 month ago

Hmm, I see zero direct dependencies in that npm page. Were you looking at dependants? Packages that need the slug package?

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Awh shit, well I can't read. Which is also why I dont use JS or NPM.

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Some systems define a slug as the part of a URL that identifies a page in human-readable keywords. It is usually the end part of the URL (specifically of the path / pathinfo part), which can be interpreted as the name of the resource, similar to the basename in a filename or the title of a page. The name is based on the use of the word slug in the news media to indicate a short name given to an article for internal use.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I'm really learning a lot by posting this! Thats interesting for sure. I think I'm just more than happy my own career never involves me in this side of tech lol

[-] lime@feddit.nu 7 points 1 month ago

that format would mangle so many names. my legal name is my middle name, so it would fail. my grandfather's first name was Jan Erik (with a space, it's still a single name), it would fail on that. i know a guy named Göran, it would fail on that (ö is not an accented o, it is a separate letter, but it will slugify to o due to browsers being browsers).

actually, come to think of it, wouldn't this also mangle the default due to 'friend' not being properly capitalized?

basically, we've learned nothing since 'falsehoods programmers believe about names'. that was 14 years ago.

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