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When artists romanticize their creative process with "you inspired this masterpiece," developers immortalize their crushes in the most practical way possible: branch names. Nothing says "I'm thinking about you" quite like typing git checkout feature/sarah-login-fix forty times a day.

The real power move? When that branch gets merged into main and becomes part of the production codebase forever. Your crush's name is now in the git history for eternity, timestamped and commit-hashed. Way more permanent than a song that might get lost in someone's Spotify library.

And that Reddit comment warning about Rebecca Purple? Yeah, that's a real CSS color (#663399) named after Rebecca Alison Meyer, daughter of CSS expert Eric Meyer, who passed away at age six. So naming conventions can get... unexpectedly emotional. Maybe stick to feature names instead.

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