gonetia

Gonetia is a simple command-line utility for generating a list of planet names issuable from an Urbit star. It is inspired by Venetia, but written in Go instead of JS.

Preview

gonetia_demo-2022-09-16_19.15.49.mp4

Setup

Prerequisites

This project requires Go 1.18+. One option is to use gvm. Alternatively, on MacOS it is simple to install Go with homebrew.

Once brew is installed, install Go like so:

brew install go

Instructions

1. Clone this repo
2. git submodule update --init --recursive
3. go build

Usage

Enter a star in patp format (e.g., ~marzod) either as a command line argument, or in response to the interactive prompt.

Command Line Argument

./gonetia "~marzod"

Interactive Mode

./gonetia

# Enter a star in patp format
>Which star? (e.g., ~marzod):

~marzod

Output

A planet identity is a four-syllable name composed of two six-character segments, such as ~sampel-palnet.

The script uses urbit-wordlists and various strategies to generate output:

• AnyEnglish: at least one segment matches wordlists/name/english-single or wordlists/name/english-double.
• OnlyEnglish: both segments match wordlists/name/english-single or wordlists/name/english-double.
• AnyApprox: at least one segment matches wordlists/name/approx-single or wordlists/name/approx-double.
• OnlyApprox: both segments match any of the wordlists.
• Doubles: both segments are identical (e.g., ~datnut-datnut)

Output for each is written to ./output/[star]/[strategy]_planets.txt, for 5 total files per run.

Special Thanks

• Thanks to @tylershuster for creating Venetia
• Thanks to @deelawn for creating urbit-gob
• Thanks to @ashelkovnykov for creating urbit-wordlists
• Thanks to @michelleylai for feature ideas, feedback, testing, and proofreading docs