The origin of the name 'freno' is discussed in the README: https://github.com/github/freno#whats-in-a-name https://github.com/github/freno#whats-in-a-name

The origin of the name 'freno' is discussed in the README: https://github.com/github/freno#whats-in-a-name https://github.com/github/freno#whats-in-a-name What's in a name? "Freno" is Spanish for "brake", as in car brake. Basically we just wanted to call it "throttler" or "throttled" but both these names are in use by multiple other repositories and we went looking for something else. When we looked up the word "freno" in a dictionary, we found the following sentence: Echa el freno, magdaleno! This reminded us of the 80's and that was it.