It's a nitpick but I wish everyone stopped spelling it like that and call it Actually Portable Executable at least. That kind of spelling really messes up with my reading comprehension, and I think it does for many people.
No inside knowledge here but I figured Justine intends it as a shibboleth.
I use a magic string somewhere, which has control codes, three ASCII digits for versioning, and an RTL UTF-8 character, and is exactly eight bytes wide.
Anything munges my file, I'll know. Meanwhile I can just mask it.
> No inside knowledge here but I figured Justine intends it as a shibboleth.
I would not call it a shibboleth, but vague, generic terms are known to be for most purposes unsearchable, and having a really unique string identifier for your thing could make it more valuable.
Obviously we're from different tribes because clearly you're wrong, and I'm compelled to cut your throat and throw you in the Jordan river. I think. Been awhile since I've reviewed the source material.
My screen reader doesn't pronounce it the way you'd expect, because it's not using Greek characters the way they should be, but it is the name. Transliterating it, is as wrong as using the original, but the author prefers the original, so that one wins out.
Screen readers can surely handle Greek just fine, the only problem with the given spelling is that it uses "lookalike" glyphs instead of corresponding characters from the Greek alphabet (eg. use of "mu"/µ for "u").
Of course, I am sure some screen readers will simply take a custom text preprocessor that will turn l337sp34k and similar spellings like this one into regular text, but I am certain none of them have it as the default.
Well, αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε is what the author calls it. I appreciate it when people respect author's choice of naming. If I had a wish, it would be for the author to change the name.
The Greek delta being used as a "o" irks me a bit too, because to me it looks very much like a consonant, but I make a one-off exception for this project.
SEO has become such a tainted word that clearly it cannot be used anymore to shorten "Making something useful easy to find in search engines by anyone who might be interested" - people think anything mentioning SEO is from narcissists or scam artists, and downvote.
What other term would people suggest then? Surely it's a real concern for projects to be easily accessible by people looking for them.
