Adoption curves
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 14:52. 0 comments
A pretty good indicator of where I am on the various adoption curves for internet technologies/meme-du-jours is what usernames are still available to me when I go to sign up. “Chris Cooper” is reasonably common as names go, so there is some degree of contention for the obvious contractions.
If “coop” is still available, I likely wrote the tool myself. Sometimes the tool is even named after me. If I end up with “ccooper,” I’m probably still ahead of the adoption curve, but tending towards the meaty section in the middle. If the tool in question start spitting out a suggested username with random combinations of letters like “chrisijcooper064,” I concede failure, and jump directly to “coopcoopbware,” which is a contraction of the wrestling name I was assigned in college, and as a username is rarely already taken for some reason.
