Software producer specialized in data and distributed systems.
Past: tech lead for Disney+ DRM (NYC), consulting and contracting (NYC), startup scene, Salesforce, full-time lab staff.
Yep, regardless of the little arguments about the legacy terms, it's not super hard to think of intelligent alternatives 🧠 🌟 🙏🏻 allowlist/denylist is very clear to read and understand.
I'm pretty happy that we have open-source projects like Alex for checking against these words. Here's what the CLI tool had to say about words.txt file containing words whitelist and blacklist.
❯ alex -t words.txt
words.txt
1:1-1:10 warning `whitelist` may be insensitive, use `passlist`, `alrightlist`, `safelist`, `allow list` instead whitelist retext-equality
2:1-2:10 warning `blacklist` may be insensitive, use `blocklist`, `wronglist`, `banlist`, `deny list` instead blacklist retext-equality
I've set up Alex to lint my blog posts on publishing via GitHub Actions. It isn't flawless, though, but there's plenty of room for configuration.
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Allowlist / denylist.
Good ideas:)
Yep, regardless of the little arguments about the legacy terms, it's not super hard to think of intelligent alternatives 🧠 🌟 🙏🏻 allowlist/denylist is very clear to read and understand.
I'm pretty happy that we have open-source projects like Alex for checking against these words. Here's what the CLI tool had to say about
words.txtfile containing words whitelist and blacklist.I've set up Alex to lint my blog posts on publishing via GitHub Actions. It isn't flawless, though, but there's plenty of room for configuration.