#almanac#

A small, handy collection of simple text files that are useful to devs.

Every so often it's handy to have a list of easily-parsable data items, especially for one-off hacks. /usr/share/dict is one such example. This is an attempt to provide a more useful basic set of info for developers.

#Layout# There are many types of information that we'd like to have as developers--common names, lists of states, lorem ipsum text, etc.

Miscellanous info

Information that doesn't fit cleanly into other structures goes into the /misc/ folder.

• /misc/lorem_ipsum is several lines of the familiar lorem ipsum text.

Geographic information

Information about countries can also be very useful.

• /geography/country_codes is a list of the ISO316601 alpha 2 codes and the countries they represent. These codes are used to index the rest of the directory.
• /geography/$(COUNTRY_CODE)/states is a list of the states/provinces in that country.
• /geography/$(COUNTRY_CODE)/territories is a list of territories in that country.
• /geography/$(COUNTRY_CODE)/first_names_male is a list of common male first names in that country.
• /geography/$(COUNTRY_CODE)/first_names_female is a list of common female first names in that country.
• /geography/$(COUNTRY_CODE)/last_names is a list of common last names in that country.