Repokémon – Showcase of GitHub Repos with Pokémon Names

[pepijndevos]

These are some of the best repos actually about Pokemon

https://github.com/pret/

[noahmorrison]

I had a project[1] that was named after a Pokemon. It was a mustache[2] parser so I named it Entei because he has a very fashionable mustache. I changed the name[3] to chevron because I didn't want to deal with Nintendo's lawyers.

[1] https://github.com/noahmorrison/chevron [2] https://mustache.github.io/ [3] https://github.com/noahmorrison/chevron/commit/42a028f597171...

[jofer]

If you're worried about lawyers, why change it to the name of one of the largest companies in the world?

[zero_iq]

Because giant international oil companies' lawyers are famously a pushover compared to Nintendo's...?

[AdmiralAsshat]

Related: My company recently announced that they were phasing out our VMWare licenses in favor of something called Metapod:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-managem...

I still can't take it seriously.

[j2kun]

Would a company send a DMCA notice for a github repo whose title is a trademarked character's name? (Is there a MickeyMouse project?)

[x1798DE]

I don't think DMCA can be used for trademark infringement, just copyright.

[jychang]

Yes. I have previously made a simple Chrome extension that contained Pokemon stuff, but certainly derivative work that should not be considered copyright infringement. (The extension replaced facebook reactions with Pokemon faces, if you're wondering).

I got DMCA'd by Nintendo anyways. I didn't bother fighting it, since it wasn't worth my time for a one-day project. Nintendo of America has overzealous paralegals that WILL go DMCA anything pokemon related.

[chimeracoder]

Ever since learning how Java's Swing got its name[0], Pokemon are actually my go-to for project codenames. They're fun and memorable, and Nintendo is litigious enough that there's no way you can actually release something with the name of a pokemon.

[0] https://blogs.oracle.com/thejavatutorials/entry/why_is_swing...

[vnchr]

Related: I had an evening project making a Pokémon Go icon set / emoji pack for Slack:

https://github.com/israelvicars/pkmn-go-emoji

@andyjiang / @lambtron was kind enough to add them to the emojipacks project:

https://github.com/lambtron/emojipacks

[bitwize]

Lambtron? Named after the Chinpokomon?

[antoineMoPa]

What happens when many repos by different Github users have the same pokémon's name?

[cheeaun]

Yeap, the one with most stars. I was thinking of getting most forks if say multiple repos with exact same number of stars, but I guess I was lazy.

[m3Lith]

It takes the one with the most stars.

[hackerling]

I'm sorry but could someone explain to me the point of this?

I can see it be amusing to have repos with pokemon names, but for practicality, I would have no idea what they are for by reading the name.

[slazaro]

There are a TON of names for projects and companies that are not related at all to what they do. Is Apple a fruit company?

[rosstex]

This is cool! Is there a way to sort by popularity?

[cheeaun]

Thanks! Currently no sort/filters. I'm planning to add those soon :)

By popularity, do you mean the repos or the pokemon?

[libeclipse]

How does it find the repositories?

[cheeaun]

I wrote a script to call the GitHub search api for every single name https://github.com/cheeaun/repokemon/blob/master/scripts/rep...