Jargons #
This is a growing list of words that I came across and I thought to myself, I’ll probably forget about this but it’s nice, better keep a note somewhere. This list is domain agnostic.
- Slashdot effect: Also known as slashdotting, occurs when a popular website links to a smaller website, causing a massive increase in traffic.
- HugOps: It is a way to celebrate the human, empathetic side of building, shipping, and running software.
- Watchdog timer : Used in Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 🚀 See also Dead man’s switch.
- Unsolicited daemon : A daemon process that sleeping for a long time, legends say it can sometime have 0 RES memory.
- opcode : abbreviated from operation code, it is basically the portion of a machine language instruction that specifies the operation to be performed. Apart from ISAs, bytecode specifications also use opcodes.
- exploratory programming : programming that is not actually solving a problem but primarily aims at finding how things are working, btw the name is self explanatory ;)
- tarpits : a network service that intentionally inserts delays in its protocol, slowing down clients by forcing them to wait.
- architecture astronauts
- complexity merchants
- SBOM: Software Bill of Materials
- Heisenbug: Software bug that seems to disappear or alter its behavior when one attempts to study it.
- Bozo bit - Wikipedia
- embrace/extend/extinguish move
Internet Laws #
- Cunningham’s Law: “the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.”
Neologisms #
A collection of interesting words that have recently been coined. In my case, this is just to keep up with gen-z folks.
- Link : To connect with friends or people in person and chill.
- data-aged : Aged but only in respect of information you have .