Partner works. There are many different types of partners, like business partner, gaming partner, conversational partner, romantic partner, and sexual partner (with some possible overlaps of course)
To me the credit thing is less about "oh they made it so they deserve the credit", and more about spreading word about the free software movement. Software freedom is good, and GNU is all about software freedom, but people won't find that by searching for "Linux"
I mostly just had some rules for names I wanted to avoid: names of people I knew personally, names that sound weird/unusual in english or swedish (where I'm from).
I considered a bunch of names via the usual methods like baby name lists and random name generators but didn't find one that felt right for me, until one day one just occured to me
I had some past experience with Blender, but for functional designs I picked up OpenSCAD
I'm not sure how old I was, I just remember where I was, and we moved away from there when I was 6.
My family wasn't outright transphobic or homophobic, but they were generally insensitive and talking to them about it didn't feel safe. I also reasoned with my limited knowledge at the time that there probably wasn't much that could be done about it even if it was accepted.
So it took until I was 18 or so before finding out about other trans people, and about HRT (this was many years ago, before the current awareness)
Not unless I notice it printing poorly
You can embed SVG in HTML, but I'm not sure well you can animate that. Might require javascript
Maybe if your printer is perfectly tuned and never has any issues. I don't have that luck with mine
I currently have mine almost on the floor and it's a terrible idea for ergonomics