The SciTE text editor has an option in its configuration files called "tab.timmy.whinge.level".
What's the story behind this name?
As I understand it, "whinge" is a British-ism for "whine" -- Google defines it as "complain persistently and in a peevish or irritating way". So who exactly is Timmy, and what is he whining about? There's got to be a story there.
It's not really relevant to anything, but every time I see that option in the docs, I have to wonder.
According to the definitive source: Neil Hodgson, lead developer of Scintilla:
I shouldn't have named a feature after a real person.
The standard Python module for checking indentation is 'lib/tabnanny.py' which was implemented by Tim Peters.