greathammer

From great + hammer. Probably modeled on greatsword, greathelm, etc.

A knife may inflict 5 points on a hit, but a Greathammer would inflict 25 points of Damage, shatter bone, and severely dent a suit of armour. This reflects the differences in size, weight and design of various weapons.

1993, David B. Pilurs, Sun and Storm: The Enchiridion, page 60

[…]some gigantic man spinning a polearm or greathammer—struck her sister a solid blow in the chest, knocking the woman to the floor. The hammer danced, and the woman holding it rushed to capitalize on the heavy strike she had just landed.

2011, Christopher Rowe, Sandstorm: A Forgotten Realms Novel, Wizards of the Coast

Just to the left of these is the final Rhogar Statue we can destroy with the Tor Greathammer for the final piece of the Armour Set (Chest - Last Traitor).

2015, GamerGuides.com, Lords of the Fallen - Strategy Guide, Gamer Guides

White Hair Ancestor looked carefully, only to see that in Qin Feng's hand, a pitch black octagonal greathammer had already appeared. "Hello..." "Then ..." Qin Feng bellowed, and threw the Sky-splitting Hammer over to the other party.

2019, Deng XiaWuYu, Supreme Emperor: Volume 8, Funstory

Ti'erra went to the middle of the tavern and placed the head of her greathammer on the floor, with the haft in the air. When it was set this way, at the top of the greathammer was a leather loop, […]

2021, Nicholas Stanosheck, Vhaidra & the DRAGON of Temple Mount, Notion Press

(fantasy and video games) A gigantic (combat) hammer; a particularly large or powerful hammer.


quadrify

en-verb

quadrify (third-person singular simple present quadrifies, present participle quadrifying, simple past and past participle quadrified)

quadrifies (present singular third-person)
quadrifying (participle present)
quadrified (participle past)
quadrified (past)

(computer graphics, transitive) To convert into one or more quadrilaterals.


shadow acne

(computer graphics) An undesirable striped or moiré appearance in shadow mapping, resulting from the use of a relatively low-resolution shadow map.


relex

programming language
programming language

(programming, by extension) A programming language that differs from another only by the names of keywords, functions, etc.


studygram

Along with rewritten notes, Chen's studygram is full of colorful bullet journal pages.

2018, Paulina Klubok, Chloe Huang, & Jennifer Lu, "Behind the Photos: A Look Inside the Studyblr Community", The Stuyvesant Spectator (Stuyvesant High School), 2 February 2018, page 3

"It's mainly science or law students that have studygrams, and not a lot of arts students. […]

2019, Diana Lajenko, quoted in Caoimhe Killeen, "Study and Chill: A look at the studygram community", SIN: Student Independent News (National University of Ireland, Galway), 31 March 2020, page 9

Originating around 2014 on sites like Tumblr, the advent of studyblrs and studygrams has brought with it a culture of academia centered on thoughtful encouragement, aestheticism, and wellness.

2020, Aliza Li, "Study Culture", Her Culture, Fall 2020, page 39

(Internet slang) An Instagram account focused on studying or academia.


studyblr

As opposed to the average gifset, studyblrs tend to post or reblog aesthetic pictures of personal workspaces.

2015 October 22, Christine Chow, “It's all a blr: Motivating your study”, in The Silhouette, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, page 22

Her studyblr serves as a visual diary of the work she puts into studying, and looking over it makes her proud of how far she's come.

2018, Paulina Klubok, Chloe Huang, & Jennifer Lu, "Behind the Photos: A Look Inside the Studyblr Community", 2 February 2018, page 3

However, studyblrs do acknowledge the difficulties that accompany being a student, especially those in graduate school.

2018, Bonnie Wong, Study Breaks, volume 30, number 5, page 39

(Internet slang) A Tumblr blog focused on studying or academia.


studygrammer

Like many other studygrammers, student Lydia of @lydia.studies presents many of her neat flashcards, notes, and flowcharts through her Instagram account.

2018 April 24, Catherine Seok, “Study Instagrams”, in The Prospector, Cupertino High School, Cupertino, CA, page 11

Take a look at the hashtag on Instagram, and you'll find that these “studygrammers” love particular brands of Japanese pens, […]

2019 October 12, Moe Yagihara, “Get Back to School in Style”, in ORIGAMI Magazine, page 22

The next “studygrammer” was a user under the name @studyingindigital, aka Amy Kilner, who lives in the United Kingdom as well.

2020, Fatima Jalloh, "Digital Notetaking", The Eagle Talon (Paxon School for Advanced Studies), November 2020, page 7

An Instagrammer whose account focuses on studying and academia.


Studyblr

The essence of studyblr is that it makes studying easier even in the face of your most hateful midterms and final exams.

2017, Fae Angelie Nas, "Studyblr: Studying with Pics and Figures", The Auditor (Bicol University, Legazpi City, Philippines), July 2017, page 6

Studyblr also has a large focus on collecting unique school supplies, particularly colorful writing utensils produced by many Japanese stationary companies.

2018 February, Sophia Liang, “Take note of new 'studyblr' trend”, in Eastside, Cherry Hill, NJ: Cherry Hill High School East, page 21

Though the reign of the Lilly Pulitzer planner is long past, we still manage to convince ourselves every year that we will become the next icon of "Studyblr" and commence a desperate search for pastel highlighters, rainbow Post-it notes and, of course, the perfect gel pen.

2021 September 14, Abbigale Evans, Lexi Solomon, “Hokie, Hokie, Hokie buy: CT staffers' picks to peruse when your parents are in town”, in The Collegiate Times, Virginia Tech, page 5

(Internet slang) The community of academic and studying-oriented blogs on Tumblr.


Studygram

Yet, Diana would definitely encourage a lot more arts students to join the Studygram community.

2019, Caoimhe Killeen, "Study and Chill: A look at the studygram community", SIN: Student Independent News (National University of Ireland, Galway), 31 March 2020, page 9

[…] when she'd attempted to distract herself in religious studies by replicating a revision page with the neatest handwriting she'd seen on a Studygram page; […]

2021, Lucy Powrie, Ready with Pride: Book 2, unnumbered page

Popular “Studygram” accounts showcase elaborately designed notes adorned with calligraphed titles and pastel color pallets.

2021 November 9, Noah Do, “Noah's Arc”, in The Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell University, page 5

(Internet slang) The community of academic and studying-oriented accounts on Instagram.


tabulating machine

en-noun

tabulating machine (plural tabulating machines)

(accounting, computing, statistics, historical) An electromechanical machine used to summarise information and perform accounting calculations.


data processing machine

data processing machine (plural data processing machines)

(computing, accounting, dated) An accounting machine or tabulating machine.


buttery smooth

en-adj

buttery smooth (comparative more buttery smooth, superlative most buttery smooth)

more buttery smooth (comparative)
most buttery smooth (superlative)

Today I hear gamers using the words “buttery smooth” to describe the effect of high refresh rates.

2008, Bernard Perron, Mark J.P. Wolf, The Video Game Theory Reader 2, page xii

In today's parlance, Rosenthal's Space Wars was “buttery smooth” full frames presented at 30 frames a second, full frames containing glowing sticks of light that you felt you could touch.

2012, Mark J. P. Wolf, Before the Crash: Early Video Game History, page 141

One technique for buttery smooth footage is to edit high frame rate (60 or 120 frames per second) footage to play back in slow motion by changing the frame rate to 24 or 30 frames per second.

2017, Jordan Hetrick, GoPro KARMA: How To Use The GoPro Karma Drone

In addition, thanks to its highly-optimized game engine Doom ran buttery smooth even on the primitive PCs of the era.

2017, David Snyder, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Speedrunning: Interviews with the Quickest Gamers

Every game has a target frame rate to hit so that the gaming experience is buttery smooth.

2021, Paul Jones, Game Artist: The Ultimate Career Guide

(computing, video games) Having a high refresh rate so that the subjective experience does not include flickers or pauses as the video changes frames.


data breach

Coordinate term: data leak

A Verizon report on data breaches found that nearly four-fifths of intrusions in 2012 were of “low difficulty,” meaning hackers found trespass remarkably easy.

2014 January 25, “Preventing the Next Data Breach”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Password manager giant LastPass has confirmed that cybercriminals stole its customers’ encrypted password vaults, which store its customers’ passwords and other secrets, in a data breach earlier this year.

2022 December 22, Zack Whittaker, “LastPass says hackers stole customers' password vaults”, in TechCrunch

(computer security) A successful cyberattack to obtain sensitive data.


data leak

Coordinate term: data breach

The parallel was not lost on Google, and the company chose not to disclose the data leak, the Wall Street Journal revealed Monday, in order to avoid the public relations headache and potential regulatory enforcement.

2018 October 12, Julia Carrie Wong, Olivia Solon, “Google to shut down Google+ after failing to disclose user data leak”, in The Guardian

One phone that has contained signs of Pegasus activity belonged to our esteemed Mexican colleague Carmen Aristegui, whose number was in the data leak and who was targeted following her exposé of a corruption scandal involving her country’s former president Enrique Peña Nieto.

2021 July 18, Paul Lewis, “Huge data leak shatters lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance”, in The Guardian

(computer security) Accidental exposure of sensitive data.


Zawinski's law

Attributed to American computer programmer Jamie Zawinski.

(computing) The wry observation that "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."


(computing) Ellipsis of PowerPC G4; the PowerPC G4 microprocessors produced by Apple.


Soulslike

From Souls + -like, referencing the Dark Souls video game series, after the pattern of roguelike (“any of a genre of computer role playing games influenced by Rogue”).

Amid the tsunami of Soulslikes, Deck13's The Surge stands out as the one game to take the genre in a new direction.

2018 April, “The Surge 2 gets tooled up”, in PlayStation Official Magazine, UK, page 11

And that's what you ultimately want from a soulslike. Challenge, struggle, and ultimate triumph. And in that sense, "Hollow Knight" is a soulslike.

2020 April 28, James Hamilton, “Hollow Knight Video Game Review”, in TechNews, Illinois Institute of Technology, page 13

Beyond its cuteness, what makes Tails of Iron stand out from other Soulslikes is how forgiving it can feel – relatively, anyway.

2021 October, Chris Wallace, “When We Made...Tails of Iron”, in MCV Develop, page 64

(video games) A subgenre of action role-playing video games influenced by the Dark Souls trilogy, characterized by high difficulty, trial-and-error progression, esoteric enemy movesets, environmental storytelling, and complex lore.


doomscroll

en-verb

doomscroll (third-person singular simple present doomscrolls, present participle doomscrolling, simple past and past participle doomscrolled)

doomscrolls (present singular third-person)
doomscrolling (participle present)
doomscrolled (participle past)
doomscrolled (past)

From doom + scroll, probably a back-formation from doomscrolling.

You doomscroll about all kinds of things including pandemics, racial injustice, natural disasters, wars, and political unrest.

2020, Robert West, chapter 1, in Stop Doomscrolling: How to Break the Cycle to Relieve Stress, Decrease Anxiety, and Regain Your Life, Annus Mirabilis Publishing

“Why are you doomscrolling?” I ask. ¶ “I’m not doomscrolling.” Swipe, swipe...

2021, Jesse Gordon, “We’re All in This Together”, in El Cassetto, Cream-Colored Coffee Cup

Keep a book in your bag to avoid the temptation to doomscroll.

2022 January 1, “100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying”, in The Guardian

(transitive, intransitive, social media, technology, neologism) To engage in the act of doomscrolling.


mining pool

The hashrate at major crypto mining pools – groups of miners in different locations that team up to produce bitcoin – including AntPool and F2Pool was on Thursday at 1215 GMT down around 14% from its level late on Tuesday, according to data from mining firm BTC.com.

2022 January 6, “Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation”, in The Guardian

The pooling of resources by cryptocurrency miners who share their processing power and split the reward.


digital scarcity

Until 2009 digital scarcity did not exist in any meaningful way. If I had a file on my computer – a picture of a cat, say – I could copy that file for as many people as I wanted at a price too low to calculate.

2018, Simon Dingle, In Math We Trust: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and the Journey To Being Your Own Bank, Jonathan Ball Publishers

With this technological design, Nakamoto was able to invent digital scarcity. Bitcoin is the first example of a digital good that is scarce and cannot be reproduced infinitely.

2018, Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, John Wiley & Sons, page 177

The CryptoKitties team addressed the concept of digital scarcity for singular items by way of their digital collectibles. No two CryptoKitties are alike—each one is unique.

2021, Tiana Laurence, Seoyoung Kim, NFTs For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 22

(cryptocurrencies) A limitation, imposed through software, of digital information; in particular, the limitation on the total supply of a cryptocurrency or other crypto-based tokens.


Zoomland

From Zoom + -land, popularized during the COVID-19 pandemic when the video teleconferencing software Zoom became an increasingly common way to communicate.

Fun times in zoom land. #arbonne #goals #dreamchaser #herewegomarch #bettertogether #nation #team #determined [inlcuded in the post is a photo of a computer screen displaying a Zoom meeting]

2017 March 1, Sara Lytle, Instagram, retrieved 2022-01-10

"And now the kids are back in Zoom-land with classes. They're doing it remotely," she [Michelle Obama] said in September.

2020 October 23, Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, Virginia Chamlee, “The Obamas Share Rare Family Photo as Barack Says Sasha and Malia Have Bonded as 'Great Friends'”, in People, Meredith Corporation, archived from the original on 2020-12-01

We had so much time when we were in Zoomland where we had to think, “Wait, why am I waking up and doing this again?”

2021 October 15, Jennifer Lu, “Workers quitting en masse is ‘a great thing,’ says workplace happiness expert—here’s why”, in CNBC, archived from the original on 2021-10-15

(neologism) The proverbial place video teleconferences, particularly using the software Zoom, take place.


cryptosphere

The core-team Apes describe the graffiti-covered bathroom of the club itself — which looks like a sticky Tiki bar — in a way that echoes that project’s broader mission: “Think of it as a collaborative art experiment for the cryptosphere.”

2021 November 1, Samantha Hissong, “How Four NFT Novices Created a Billion-Dollar Ecosystem of Cartoon Apes”, in Rolling Stone

The following became obvious quite quickly – the cryptosphere needed a nonvolatile peg.

2022, Simon Dingle, Steven Boykey Sidley, chapter 7, in Beyond Bitcoin, Icon Books

(informal, cryptocurrencies, collective) The cryptocurrency community.


Ask Jeeves

Ask Jeeves (third-person singular simple present Asks Jeeves, present participle Asking Jeeves, simple past and past participle Asked Jeeves)

Asks Jeeves (present singular third-person)
Asking Jeeves (participle present)
Asked Jeeves (participle past)
Asked Jeeves (past)

From Ask Jeeves, a search engine named after Jeeves, a fictional valet in the works of P. G. Wodehouse.

Back then Google was still only a small private American company set up by two Stanford University students rather than a globally-recognised verb for finding information online. When we Asked Jeeves about progeria only 2,200 web pages appeared and many of those lacked hard information and facts.

2011, Hayley Okines, Kerry Okines, Alison Stokes, “Kerry; Learning to Live with Progeria”, in Old Before My Time, Accent Press Ltd, page 23

I’ve Googled it, Binged it, and Asked Jeeves. They all say the same thing, but I’m not convinced.

2015, Sarah Weeks, Honey, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Press, →LCCN, page 53

“Is Magda dead?” I Asked Jeeves. What I found were 626,000 web pages,[…]So I Asked Jeeves, “Does anyone named Magda live in Levant?” and found an African American woman named Magda Levant, living in Lubbock, Texas.[…]I clicked open the browser and Asked Jeeves, not the answer to my prayers—for there to be no death, for Walter to be here, with me, for me to return to my life back in Monlith, my life before Charlie, before any of this—for I knew no computer could deliver that. No, instead I Asked Jeeves for a way to take action, some help in my effort to make the world a better place, death and all. Walter would have been so proud. “How does one solve a mystery?” I typed. And then, for good measure, I added the word “murder” before “mystery,” since this was indeed what I was dealing with. I scrolled down the search results.[…]I thought to offer the neighbor my wisdom, everything I had learned since I had Asked Jeeves how to solve Magda’s murder.

2020, Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands, pages 70, 71, 78, and 206

To search for (something) on the Internet using the Ask Jeeves search engine.


anon meme

For the past several years, the anon meme weighed in on each and every one, replacing the norms of the broader fanfic community about constructive feedback with sometimes brutal attacks on the writing, the art–and the fan writers themselves.

2012, Katherine Larsen, Lyn Zubernis, Fandom at the Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/producer Relationships, page 120

LJ’s spnanonhaven is an anon meme community where fans comment anonymously on posts related to all aspects of Supernatural fandom.

2014, Joseph Brennan, 'Fandom is full of pearlclutching old ladies' : Nonnies in the online slash closet, volume 17, number 4

On the anon meme failfandom_anon many fans describe how they have left their fandom or, at least, have stopped reading and engaging on Tumblr because of the highly aggressive atmosphere.

2018, Kristina Busse, “Afterword: Fannish Affect and Its Aftermath”, in Rebecca Williams, editor, Everybody Hurts: Transitions, Endings, and Resurrections in Fan Cultures, page 217

(fandom slang) An online space (typically a LiveJournal or Dreamwidth community) used for anonymous fannish discussion.


ask box

One post on Tumblr by user penfairy begins with an ask-box submitted question reading "I didn't know there were Austen gay otps (I'm very sheltered). Could you tell me what they are, please?" […]

2019, Holly Luetkenhaus, Zoe Weinstein, Austentatious: The Evolving World of Jane Austen Fans, page 102

I whip out my phone. “Here, I'll message you on Tumblr right now.”
Gabi opens her ask box. "Touch your clit?"

2020, Amanda Harlowe, Consensual Hex, unnumbered page

[…] “I may not like Real Madrid, but if a Madridista [a fan of Real Madrid] comes into my askbox and asks me politely for art of their fave, the chances that I’ll oblige them are pretty good.”

2021, Anna, quoted in Jessica Kunert, "The Footy Girls of Tumblr: How Women Found Their Niche in the Online Football Fandom", Communication & Support, Volume 9, Issue 2, pages 255-256

(Internet) The inbox in which asks (messages) sent to a Tumblr blog are received.


concept drift

en-noun

concept drift (countable and uncountable, plural concept drifts)

Concept refers to the hidden relationship between the inputs and outputs of the model.

Regarding collection usage, frecency metrics are employed, combining frequency and recency, to effectively capture concept drift and temporal trends.

2010, Mounia Lalmas et al., editors, Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries […], Springer, page 544

Concept drift is an important issue to be considered in data stream mining. In a real environment, the data distribution is constantly changing, and the model needs to be continuously updated to adapt to the new environment.

2020, Zhiwen Yu et al., editors, Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing […], Springer Nature, page 115

(statistics, machine learning) The tendency of a statistical model to become less and less accurate over time in real-world conditions.


Yasha

(computing, Internet) nickname for Yandex (Russian slang)


HLAI

HLAI (countable and uncountable, plural HLAIs)

On the other hand, if HLAI leads machines to automate rather than augment human labor, it creates the risk of concentrating wealth and power. And with that concentration comes the peril of being trapped in an equilibrium where those without power have no way to improve their outcomes, a situation I call the Turing Trap.

2022 January 12, Erik Brynjolfsson, “The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence”, in Stanford Digital Economy Lab

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence#English

(artificial intelligence) Initialism of human-like artificial intelligence.


EduTwitter

Once upon a time, “EduTwitter” was full of promise and highlighted teaching at its best.

2018 October 22, Joseph Bispham, “Don't get sucked into trad vs prog on EduTwitter”, in Times Educational Supplement

EduTwitter is an incredible source of information for educators. I know I wouldn't be in teaching any more if I hadn't joined Twitter in September 2014.

2019, Victoria Hewitt, Making it as a Teacher: How to Survive and Thrive in the First Five Years, unnumbered page

When one scrolls through the EduTwitter feed and witnesses the amount of self-flagellation and denigration going on at our own hands, one realises the power that a sprinkling of self-compassion could have for our workforce.

2020, Angela Browne, Lighting the Way: The Case for Ethical Leadership in Schools, page 92

(Internet) The community of teachers and education-focused users on Twitter.


costware

There are two paths to travel in Eudora-land. The 1.* versions are freeware, the 2.* versions are costware. The big difference between the two is filtering, a darn useful feature. 2.1 is the latest and greatest costware version.

1994 September 27, Michael Sattler, San Francisco, “Why All The Different Eudora Versions?”, in comp.sys.mac.comm (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18

Anybody know of any shareware (or costware) that will create 3D fonts for Autocad?????

1997 February 10, Vinal Applebee, “3D Fonts”, in comp.cad.autocad (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18

The plugin has (AFAIK) always been costware for commercial use.

1997 July 6, Chris Cox, “plugin is costware now?”, in comp.lang.tcl (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18

Now my questions:
1) wich components should I install on the publishing server?
2) where do I get it?
3) do I need to restart the server after setup?
4) is the software I install costware?

1999 March 23, Andrea Gasperi, “Please Help (Tomorrow on pubblishing)”, in microsoft.public.vinterdev (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18

I recently bought T+, went for the costware version, without trying it out.

2000 May 2, pegleg, “CompuPic Pro vs ThumbsPlus”, in rec.photo.digital (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18

(computing, slang, rare) Commercial software.


pornware

How can I delete rb32.exe popup adware(pornware). Says access denied. File properties show as archive. How do these programs prohibit access to delete them.??

2003 February 12, Frank den Ouden, “Cant deltere Rapid blaster”, in alt.windows-xp (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18

For real excitement, however, you simply cannot beat Windows XP! Mysterious crashes, data loss, strange cryptic messages, spyware, pornware, gatesware, all abound. And if you listen attentively, you can hear viruses, worms, and Trojan horses stampeding through the registry. Or simply use Outlook email client as instructed, and you'll be able to see the little buggers...right on your screen. And any update is an adrenalin-pumper. Egads, I miss it!

2004 March 9, bill, “Linux and future.”, in alt.os.linux.suse (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18

Neo Security Flash allows an efficient detection of cyber threats and virus through advanced algorithms. It includes protection against Spyware, Adware, Pornware and Riskware allowing you to easily scan files in your portable device.

2009 April 28, submissio...@rambler.ru, “Neo Security Flash 1.3.1”, in comp.software.shareware.announce (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18

>>I am trying to create an application for the Windows Mobile 5.0 (or
>>higher)
>>platform. One of the features of the application is that it has a panic
>>button that automatically closes down the application and deletes the
>>executable.
>
> Why does this sound like you're trying to build malware?
Or "pornware"?

2009 November 20, Scott M., “Creating a self deleting executable using .NET”, in microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18

(computing) Pornographic software or malware.


MCN

(Internet) Initialism of multichannel network.


Nintendo hard

en-adj

Nintendo hard (comparative more Nintendo hard, superlative most Nintendo hard)

more Nintendo hard (comparative)
most Nintendo hard (superlative)

Notably, the fairness of difficulty in Nintendo hard games has been called into question in recent years (Lessel 2013), highlighting that such designs can sometimes serve more to infuriate players through frequent unfair death rather than provide an appropriate challenge.

2020, Barbaros Bostan, Game User Experience And Player-Centered Design, page 267

(video games, informal) Having an extremely high level of difficulty.


unplot

en-verb

unplot (third-person singular simple present unplots, present participle unplotting, simple past and past participle unplotted)

unplots (present singular third-person)
unplotting (participle present)
unplotted (participle past)
unplotted (past)

If the last pixel was plotted automatically, it would be harder to unplot it in the cases in which this behavior was not desired.

2005, Richard Harrison, Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones, volume 1, page 326

(transitive, computer graphics) To erase (a point previously plotted).


metaprogrammer

Template metaprogrammers in C++ have demonstrated that compile-time computation is an important technology, but they've had to jump through hoops of syntactic fire to practice it.

2010, Andrei Alexandrescu, The D Programming Language

(programming) One who uses the technique of metaprogramming.


danmaku

(Internet) A form of moving subtitles used on videos posted on social media.


petfluencer

That is why there are so many cat videos on the internet, creating cat celebrities and “petfluencers,” animals that help to sell products online.

2021, Penelope Rich, Cat Tales: True Stories of Fantastic Felines

[…] And as you all know, petfluencers are increasingly attractive to film companies.' 'Wasn't there a hairless cat in an Austin Powers film once?' someone asks.

2022, Kirstie Pelling, Life's a Catastrophe

(social media, marketing) An animal used as an influencer.

You see, it's too late for me to become one of those 'petfluencers' – a tastemaker, babbling on about the latest trends in sundresses for coonhounds or why you should be using jewel-encrusted poop bags.

2019, Vincent J. Musi, The Year of the Dogs, page 146

(social media, marketing) A human influencer who uses an animal for this purpose.


foodstagrammer

Below is a list of my top ten favorite foodstagrammers (in no particular order) who inspire me in all my food photography endeavors.

2015 March 17, Michelle Banayan, “Food Instagrams”, in The Justice, Brandeis University, page 24

Amateur foodstagrammers may also attempt to build popularity through their photos and break into the professional realm.

2016 November, Beth Steinmann, “Are Food Selfies Out of Control?”, in Benicio Magazine, page 18

But even this foodstagrammer can struggle to find new places to eat, great bars that aren't my normal haunts, places to take a date, or even just a new cafe with WiFi.

2019 July, Michael Muñoz, “Eaters of Habit”, in W42ST, page 41

An Instagrammer whose account focuses on food and cooking.


foodstagram

en-noun

foodstagram (countable and uncountable, plural foodstagrams)

One recent "Overheard of the Week" encapsulates foodstagram culture, as one friend remarks to her breakfast companion: "Get the toast, it's more photogenic."

2014, Michelle Salzman Boston, "Foodstagram", USC Dornsife Magazine (David and Dana Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences), Fall 2014/Winter 2015, page 25

In the 'foodstagram' generation, where photos from cafés and restaurants are shared more for their artful design than for their bold or daring flavors, Dans Le Noir is a reminder of the importance of taste.

2016, Emily Bull, "Eyes For Food", Woroni (Australian National University), Week 3, Semester 2 (2016), page 25

Come try out these great restaurants to capture that next foodstagram shot and make all your followers crave your foodie lifestyle.

2016 May, Danielle Gumina, Sara Hyland, “Appetite For Aperture”, in Locale, page 36

(uncountable, Internet slang) The community of foodies and food-oriented accounts on Instagram, characterized by artful photos of food.

I decided to make my foodstagram a team effort by inviting my roommate to join me.

2018 April 24, Christina Mitchell, “Using 'foodstagram' to explore city, Main Campus”, in The Temple News, Temple University, page 5

Running a “foodstagram” has helped me expand my tastes and push me outside my comfort zone.

2018, Meredith George (@Omaha.Feast), quoted in "Meet Our Instagram Foodie Consultants", Omaha Magazine, July/August 2018, page 65

Yu created her foodstagram after she came to college and realized that living in D.C. provided her with a special opportunity to experience new cuisines and different cultural foods.

2020 February 28, Emma Ginsberg, “Foodstagrams Offer Tasty Recipes, Detailed Reviews”, in The Hoya, Georgetown University, page B10

(countable, Internet slang) An individual food-focused account on Instagram.

In a food-driven city like Austin, posting a foodstagram is almost inevitable.

2015, Ashley Lopez, "A Taste of Koko", Orange Magazine, Spring 2015, page 38

The creative donuts are worth the long line and the shameless compulsory foodstagram.

2016 March 22, Kallyn Hobmann, Rachel Finegold, Amanda Yoo, “Spring break in L.A.”, in The Arrow, Westlake High School, West Lake, CA, page 7

Users are sharing “foodstagrams” with their social media networks in unprecedented numbers.

2016, Sarah Emily Gilbert, "Too Pretty Too Eat", Urban Agenda Magazine, Summer 2016, page 13

(countable, Internet slang) An artful photo of food posted to Instagram.


foodstagram

en-verb

foodstagram (third-person singular simple present foodstagrams, present participle foodstagramming, simple past and past participle foodstagrammed)

foodstagrams (present singular third-person)
foodstagramming (participle present)
foodstagrammed (participle past)
foodstagrammed (past)

Mike Madison “foodstagrammed” one of his favorites from La Belle Vie: Pata negra with marcona almond, toasted sesame and apple.

2013 February 6, Aimee Blanchette, “Local chefs say their food is camera-ready”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXI, number 308, page E1

So what’s the most foodstagrammed meal?[…]When tastes are broken down on a city-by-city basis, London comes out as the most popular place for foodstagramming burgers, accounting for five per cent of posts worldwide.

2016 November 9, James P. Hall, “Bringing our food into focus”, in Vancouver Sun, page C7

So when you’re settling down to beachside dinner or home takeout this long weekend, say “no” to unsustainable packaging you don’t need, and “yes” to foodstagramming and celebrating the delicious food Vancouver’s diverse culinary scene has to offer.

2019 May 22, Robert Phelps, “Enjoy great food in sustainable packaging”, in Vancouver Sun, page A11

(Internet slang) To post a photo of food on Instagram.


RHEL

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
w:Red Hat Enterprise Linux

(computing) Initialism of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.


GPGPU

graphics processing unit
graphics processing unit#English

(computing) Initialism of general-purpose computing on graphics processing units.


CUDA

Compute Unified Device Architecture
w:Compute Unified Device Architecture

(computing) Acronym of Compute Unified Device Architecture.


FAAMG

en-noun

FAAMG (countable and uncountable, plural FAAMGs)

(technology) One or more of the technology companies Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google.


POS terminal

payment terminal
payment terminal#English

(computer hardware) Synonym of payment terminal


credit card terminal

credit card terminal (plural credit card terminals)


TVL

(cryptocurrencies, finance) Initialism of total value locked (“sum of all assets deposited in a protocol”).


DApp

In this chapter, we will build a full DApp from scratch.

2019, Santiago Palladino, Ethereum for Web Developers, Apress, page 17

decentralized application
w:decentralized application


proof of burn

Proof of burn is used to destroy (burn) coins. To burn bitcoins means to send those bitcoins to a verifiable yet nonspendable address.

2015, David Lee Kuo Chuen, Handbook of Digital Currency: Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data, Academic Press, page 47

The third approach to ensure the integrity of a blockchain is proof of burn, first used by Counterparty. The Counterparty tokens, XCP, were distributed proportionally to everyone who destroyed bitcoins by sending them to an unrecoverable address during the proof-of-burn period in January 2014, see counterparty.io.

2017, David Lee Kuo Chuen, Robert H. Deng, editors, Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, volume 1, Academic Press, page 151

(cryptocurrencies) A process for verification on a blockchain that requires the destruction (“burning”) of tokens.


digital gold

Moores says part of the currency’s power is in its use as a speculative instrument for trading – a digital gold – but also as a way for companies to make payments more cheaply and perform other functions.

2017 May 15, Simon Usborne, quoting Simon Moore, “Digital gold: why hackers love Bitcoin”, in The Guardian

If bitcoin was digital gold, Ethereum was digital silver.

2020, Jeff John Roberts, Kings of Crypto, Harvard Business Press

(finance, cryptocurrencies) A cryptocurrency seen as a safe store of value.


PvE

player versus environment
player versus environment#English

(video games, roleplaying games) Initialism of player versus environment.


pvp

(video games) Alternative letter-case form of PvP.


pve

(video games) Alternative letter-case form of PvE.


PvP

player versus player
player versus player#English

(video games, roleplaying games) Initialism of player versus player.


player versus environment

(video games, chiefly roleplaying games) The situation where a player battles computer-controlled opponents rather than other human players.


buyware

There is Business Basic (BBX). But it's buyware. If you find GNU licence Basic - let me know.

1999 November 10, Chris Notz, “Is there a "BASIC programming language" compiler available for AIX?”, in comp.unix.aix (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30

Don't forget Thoroughbred (www.tbred.com) which is also buyware.
Otherwise, look on the bonus pack CD that comes w/ AIX 4.3+...
...There's a copy of Visual Age Java (not the enterprise edition, which is buyware). Not having played with it, I can't vouch for it.

1999 November 10, John R. Campbell, “Is there a "BASIC programming language" compiler available for AIX?”, in comp.unix.aix (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30

ANY OS - buyware or freeware - has a learning curve.

2001 May 15, Lewin A.R.W. Edwards, “any free OS for embedded system?”, in comp.arch.embedded (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30

Not everything on this site is freeware. Some trailware and shareware, and buyware.

2003 March 5, Andrew C. Cooper, “New Freeware Site”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30

Is buyware evil ? Absolutely not. People put money, skills and effort in developing software. They have the right to get compensation for that. That's how the world works. The hippie-era is behind us.
And buyware also puts the freeware in a different perspective, if there was no buyware, freeware programmers would probably be slaughtered together with Bill G. for mistakes we call minor annoying bugs now.

2004 December 28, Rod, “Freeware and only freeware?”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30


multidictionary

(programming) Synonym of multimap (“data structure”)


shocked Pikachu

shocked Pikachu (plural shocked Pikachus)

From an Internet meme based on a screencap of Pikachu with a shocked expression from the 1997 episode "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village" of the animated series Pokémon: Indigo League.

Olivia's shocked-Pikachu face shifts into a full-on scowl.

2020, Anna Meriano, “Just Tell Them You Play Soccer”, in Game On: 15 Stories of Wins, Losses, and Everything in Between, page 180

I swear to god I had both of my eyes bulging out with my mouth wide open looking like a shocked Pikachu.

2021, Sunehar Aneja, Angela Mathew, editors, And The Dandelions Fell Apart, page 83

She didn't have to look so friggin' surprised about it. Like a shocked Pikachu.

2021, Yayoi Ogawa, translated by Rose Padgett, Knight of the Ice 7, page 56

(Internet slang) A Pikachu with a specific open-mouthed, erect-ear expression signifying shock and astonishment, especially regarding something that one should have expected.


ortholinear

(computing, of a keyboard) Having keys that are aligned in a perfect grid.


subcomment

(Internet) A comment posted on a forum etc. that is hierarchically beneath another comment, and usually in reply to it.


CIPA

(US, law, Internet) Acronym of Children's Internet Protection Act.


busy loop

(programming) A loop that actively consumes CPU cycles while waiting for an event.


DASH

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP
w:Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP

(web development, video) Acronym of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP.

web development; video; web development; video


Elo hell

(video games, uncountable) The supposed phenomenon where a rating range or skill group is atypically hard to escape from.

(video games, countable) A rating range where this phenomenon occurs.


frame-perfect

Immediate decision-making, twitch reactions, tight timings, microtemporal awareness and frame-perfect [4] performance characterize competitive play behaviors in fighting games, first-person shooters, MOBAs and real time strategy games.

2018 December, Matt Knutson, “Backtrack, pause, rewind, reset: Queering chrononormativity in gaming”, in Game Studies, volume 18, number 3, →ISSN, pages 1–15

It also requires frame-perfect precision in execution, with particular inputs having to coincide with in-game timers and triggers.

2019, James Newman, “Wrong Warping, Sequence Breaking, and Running through Code Systemic Contiguity and Narrative Architecture in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Any% Speedrun”, in Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, volume 4, number 1, Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 7–36

Moment #37 is famous in Street Fighter 2, for instance, because its execution required virtually frame-perfect inputs, which very few players had the dexterity to perform. Another norm is that the sport be regimented and codified.

2021 May 20, Stephen Mumford, A Philosopher Looks at Sport (A Philosopher Looks At), Cambridge University Press, →LCCN, page 60

(speedrunning) Of an input, trick etc.: performed accurate to the duration of a single frame.


code up

en-verb

code up (third-person singular simple present codes up, present participle coding up, simple past and past participle coded up)

codes up (present singular third-person)
coding up (participle present)
coded up (participle past)
coded up (past)

(computing, transitive) To create by coding or programming.


incremental game

en-noun

incremental game (plural incremental games)

A video game where a player or the game itself performs simple actions such as clicking repeatedly in order to progress, with elements unlocked as the game progresses.


subscriptable

If the container is subscriptable and you remember the position where a particular piece of data was stored, you can use the subscript to efficiently retrieve the data.

2012, Robert Robson, Using the STL: The C++ Standard Template Library, page 249

(programming) Capable of being subscripted.


self-deletion

self-deletion (countable and uncountable, plural self-deletions)

(computing, programming) The act of self-deleting.


self-delete

en-verb

self-delete (third-person singular simple present self-deletes, present participle self-deleting, simple past and past participle self-deleted)

self-deletes (present singular third-person)
self-deleting (participle present)
self-deleted (participle past)
self-deleted (past)

(computing, programming, intransitive) Of code, to overwrite itself upon completion, usually with 0x00 or 0xFF bytes that represent an unwritten region.


black MIDI

So called because of the black (note-heavy) appearance of such compositions when displayed in staff notation.

A style of music composition involving the creation of MIDI files where extreme numbers of musical notes are played simultaneously.


HODL

HODL (third-person singular simple present HODLs, present participle HODLing, simple past and past participle HODLed)

HODLs (present singular third-person)
HODLing (participle present)
HODLed (participle past)
HODLed (past)

Bitcoin, in particular, has always bounced back from previous dips, and investors who HODLed (held on for dear life to their coins, despite falling prices) have ended up with huge capital gains.

2022 May 17, Paul Krugman, “Crashing Crypto: Is This Time Different?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN


app store

(computing) A digital marketplace where computer software can be purchased and downloaded.


buy the dip

buy the dip (third-person singular simple present buys the dip, present participle buying the dip, simple past and past participle bought the dip)

buys the dip (present singular third-person)
buying the dip (participle present)
bought the dip (participle past)
bought the dip (past)

Referring to the "dip" (fall) in a stock's market value, which allows an investor to purchase its shares at a cheaper price and possibly earn better gains if the stock rebounds to its previous high.

Many traders are told to “buy the dip and sell the pullback” but not exactly when to execute this. It has been left up to the trader to enter when he or she feels the time is right.

2009, Ken Wood, Trade the Patterns: The Revolutionary Way of Trading the CCI, Traders Press, page 31

During upward-sloping cycles in the Investment Rate, a long bias with proper diversification should result in positive portfolio returns, without drawn-out setbacks, if investors are willing to buy the dips, especially the big ones, at all times.

2009, Thomas H. Kee, Buy and Hold Is Dead: How to Make Money and Control Risk in Any Market, John Wiley & Sons, page 35

(slang, finance) To purchase a financial asset after its market value drops.


gimmick account

en-noun

gimmick account (plural gimmick accounts)

(Internet slang, social media) An account dedicated to posting a specific niche of (usually humorous) content.

A social media account that parodies a public figure or brand.


Wojak

Etymology tree
Proto-Balto-Slavic *wajas
Proto-Slavic *vojь
Proto-Slavic *-akъ
Proto-Slavic *vojakъ
Polish wojakbor.
English Wojak
From the Internet meme Wojak, a cartoon drawing of a bald man with a wistful or melancholic expression. The original image was posted on vichan, a Polish imageboard, in 2009, and was later reposted to the German imageboard krautchan in 2010 by a Polish user called "wojak"; the username is from Polish wojak (“soldier; fighter”).

etymon

From the original manifestation of a wistful look to the meme of two Wojaks hugging with the tag “I know that feel bro,” he has taken on contexts in male-dominated internet spaces that signify a brotherhood of sorts.

2020, Soham Gadre, “Inside the Male-Dominated Meme Hijacked by Lib-Bashing Trumpsters”, in Daily Beast

Owing to their coarsely drawn, unyielding masculine outlines, Wojaks are especially compatible with efforts to channel aggression.

2021, Jeffrey Demsky, Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture, 1945–2020, page 112

These figures, which regularly appear as characters in other meme formats, make variants of Doomer (male, female, boy, etc.) one of the most prevalent meme tropes of the early 2020s, with both a vertical reach (as straight copies of the original Doomer format) and a horizontal one (as variants in form, gender, and age, and, since late 2020, race – with Black Wojaks going viral).

2021, Mike Watson, The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What To Do About It, page 50

(Internet slang) An online image of a crudely-drawn person, often with a melancholic expression, with an art style based upon the original Wojak.


datastack

(computing) A stack (LIFO data structure) of data items


lapware

From lap + -ware, lap in reference to a child sitting upon a caregiver's lap.

(software) Software designed for young children.


blogazine

Jezebel began in 2007 as a feminist break-out from the blogazine Gawker.

2014, Sarah Himsel Burcon, Fabricating the Body, page 136

(Internet) A website that publishes articles, with elements of a blog and a magazine.


clusterhead

(computing) The head (principal node) of a cluster.


hypernavigation

(computing) Navigation by means of hyperlinks.


Tumblrer

“I actually was just reading on Tumblr ... someone said, ‘Oh my god, I just finished Husk. I was empathizing with zombies, what’s wrong with me?’ ”[…]But much like that horrified Tumblrer, we do find ourselves on his side throughout, from his first taste of a morgue attendant to a surprisingly touching finale.

2012 October 25, David Berry, “In a zombie state of mind”, in National Post, volume 14, number 300, page B7

Various Artists, “Christmas Rules” – At last, a Starbucks comp for everyone, from skinny-jeaned Instagrammers to Dockers-hugged Tumblrers.

2012 December 21, Albany Democrat-Herald, volume 146, number 306, page 9

Tumblr emails me to say that I wrote the only Tumblr post ever to cause the White House to release a statement about it, and I email her back to say that this has been a pretty wild ride and I am a very lucky Tumblrer so far.

2014, David Shapiro, You’re Not Much Use to Anyone, New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 157

A user of the microblogging and social networking site Tumblr.


transwiki

en-verb

transwiki (third-person singular simple present transwikis, present participle transwikiing, simple past and past participle transwikied)

transwikis (present singular third-person)
transwikiing (participle present)
transwikied (participle past)
transwikied (past)

From trans- + wiki; coined in 2003 in the Wikimedia context.

Teams offers the option of a wiki for each team, so go ahead and use those wikis and we'll just transwiki as needed.

This is the Wikia Pro Wrestling transwiki log.

2007 June 29, Jaydvb, “Pro Wrestling:Transwiki”, in Fandom, retrieved 2022-02-16

This project or template has a transwiki guide to help editors adapt it to a remote wiki when this cannot be done by simply copying the codes of one single template.

2018 January 15, Robertinventor, “Template:Transwiki guide”, in Encyclopedia of Buddhism, retrieved 2022-02-16

(originally Wikimedia jargon, wiki jargon) To move content from one wiki to another, on sites such as Wikimedia projects, Fandom, or PBworks, or in apps such as Microsoft Teams (wiki function therein).


coinbase

The transaction that created new Bitcoins would be referred to as the coinbase of each block.

2015, Nathaniel Popper, “Technical Appendix”, in Digital Gold, 1st edition, New York: Harper, →OCLC

The authors randomly sampled 100 coinbases from the last 20,000 blocks of the blockchain that by the time of the experiment had the highest block-height at 247,054.

2016, Ghassan O. Karame, Elli Androulaki, Bitcoin and Blockchain Security, Artech House, page 92

Coinbase transactions have nothing to do with the US company of the same name. Coinbase is the required first transaction of every block and is the only transaction allowed to bring bitcoins into existence.

2019, Jimmy Song, Programming Bitcoin: Learn How to Program Bitcoin from Scratch, O'Reilly Media, page 164

(cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin) The transaction that is automatically created in every Bitcoin block to reward the miner.


UTXO

Since our application maintains a single private key per wallet, all the UTXOs of the user will be referenced to a single public address, […]

2019, Koshik Raj, Foundations of Blockchain: The pathway to cryptocurrencies and decentralized blockchain applications, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 138

unspent transaction output
w:unspent transaction output

(cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin) Abbreviation of unspent transaction output.


Instamom

2015 November 14, Hayley Krischer, “Meet the Instamom, a Stage Mother for Social Media”, in The New York Times:

My advice for new mamas is to take all those beautiful Instamom photos with a grain of salt, because a carefully cropped square leaves the rest of a person's reality out of the frame.

2019, Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You, unnumbered page

The sampling consisted of five Instamoms with more than 100,000 followers recruited using purposive sampling.

2021, Arzu Kalafat Çat, “Virtual Identities And Self-Presentation In Social Media Instagram Mothers”, in Enes Emre Başar, Pınar Bacaksız, editors, New Paradigms within the Communication Sciences, page 181

(informal) A mother who runs an Instagram account focused on her child/children or motherhood in general.


BookTok

The biggest difference between the other communities and BookTok is the length of the videos.

2021 February 23, Carly Pearce, “BookTok? A Gen-Z guide to literature”, in Epigram, Bristol University, page 20

Frazier agreed, saying BookTok has the power to determine what novels are popular […]

2021 September 9, Maddy Franklin, “The rise of BookTok”, in The Red & Black, University of Georgia, page A7

BookTok seems to be a gateway to a reading hobby for many users.

2022 February 1, Lara Mellett, “Inside the World of BookTok”, in Trinity News, Trinity College Dublin, page 13

BookTok is not dominated by the usual power players in the book world such as authors and publishers but by regular readers, many of them young, who share recommendations and videos of themselves talking about the books they love, sometimes weeping or screaming or tossing a copy across the room.

2022 July 1, Elizabeth A. Harris, “How TikTok Became a Best-Seller Machine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

The community of book- and reading-oriented accounts on TikTok.


BookTok

As you consider the ways you might include BookToks in your classroom, we ask that you are mindful of these critical components that make BookTok so unique and relevant to its users[…]

2021 October 8, Sarah Jerasa, Trevor Boffone, “BookTok 101: TikTok, Digital Literacies, and Out-of-School Reading Practices”, in Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy

In my case, the BookToks I see thanks to the algorithm are related to my genres of preference such as historic fiction, young adult, sci-fi, and books popular in my age group.

2021 November 3, Scharina Bencosme, “The Enchanting World of BookTok”, in The Outlook, volume 94, number 7, Monmouth University, page 8

Blogging, YouTubing, vlogging, instagramming, microblogging and podcasting—or, more specifically, book blogging (Driscoll, 2019; Steiner, 2010), booktubing, (Tomasena, 2019; Vizcaíno-Verdú et al., 2019; de Leusse, 2017; de Lourdes López López, 2017; Sorensen & Mara, 2014), bookstagramming (Jaakkola, 2019), sharing BookToks (Merga, 2021) or booktwittering—are distinct practices of using social media, and reviewing—or, for example, reviewing books—embedded in these forms of communication.

2022, Maarit Jaakkola, Reviewing Culture Online: Post-Institutional Cultural Critique across Platforms, Palgrave Macmillan, page 110

A book- or reading-oriented video on TikTok.


Instamum

She marvelled at how lucrative kids-as-content seemed to be. Instamums at Disneyland and on cruises, snaps showing improbably perfect houses filled with improbably perfect children.

2019, Sophie White, Filter This, unnumbered page

It's little wonder that so many of us struggling with parental burnout became attracted to the rise of imperfect parenting blogs and these 'real' Instamums.

2021, Kate Baily, Mandy Manners, Dawn Nickel, Love Yourself Sober: A Self Care Guide to Alcohol-Free Living for Busy Mothers, unnumbered page

I never planned to be an Instamum. For a long time, I wasn't sure I'd be a mum at all.

2021, Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her, unnumbered page


cleanfluencer

Instagram 'cleanfluencer' Mrs Hinch says cleaning helped her tackle her anxiety.

2019, Laura Jane Williams, The Life Diet: How to Let in What Makes You Happy, and Let Go of Everything Else, unnumbered page

He will never understand the joy I feel at being a cleanfluencer, nor feel the buzz I get when tens of my followers contact me to tell me how I've encouraged them to organise their clutter.

2020, J. A. Andrew, Behind Her Smile, unnumbered page

In comparison to the Zoflora-scented cult that's grown up around @mrshinch, Lynsey Crombie, aka @lynsey_queenofclean, a blonde 40-year-old cleanfluencer from Petersborough, offers a cosier roster of domestic aphorisms.

2020, Sally Howard, The Home Stretch: Why It's Time to Come Clean About Who Does the Dishes, unnumbered page

(neologism, rare) An influencer who gives advice on housekeeping and cleaning products.


Instafame

A perfect example of “Instafame” or a social media celebrity is Benjamin Lasnier, a teenage boy from Denmark, who achieved fame almost entirely through Instagram and YouTube.

2015, Pavica Sheldon, Social Media: Principles and Applications, page 43

Ulman's project was an acerbic take on “Instafame,” a phenomenon that is reshaping and redefining the very idea of a “star” and their relationship to their audience.

2019, Daniel Palmer, Kate Warren, “Scarlett Johansson Falling Down: Memes, Photography and Celebrity Personas”, in Janice Loreck, Kirsten Stevens, Whitney Monaghan, editors, Screening Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre, Stardom, page 127

Race is both a visible and invisible element of [rupi] kaur's social media success and journey to Instafame.

2021, L. Aya Saraswati, Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie, page 50

The state or quality of being well-known or popular on Instagram.


sharent

Back-formation from sharenting. Analyzable as Blend of share + parent.

If you're not one yourself, you've probably come across one, perhaps even taken advantage of apps such as Unbaby.me, which helpfully replaces the endless feed of baby pictures with images of cats or, if you prefer, bacon. Because sharents have a tendency to get a little … carried away.

2013 May 18, Nione Meakin, “The pros and cons of 'sharenting'”, in The Guardian

During the interview, Maya told me that she was a passionate sharent; she loved to post about her son and tell stories about his life.

2020, Veronica Barassi, Child Data Citizen: How Tech Companies Are Profiling Us from Before Birth, page 134

Through YouTube channels, blogs, Instagram accounts, and other digital platforms, commercial sharents use their families' everyday experiences to create revenue-generating content that is available to the public.

2020, Leah A. Plunkett, Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk About Our Kids Online, page 55

(neologism) A parent who documents their child's upbringing on social media, typically by posting photos, videos, etc.


sharent

sharent (third-person singular simple present sharents, present participle sharenting, simple past and past participle sharented)

sharents (present singular third-person)
sharenting (participle present)
sharented (participle past)
sharented (past)

If you are going to sharent, it's worth being careful about the privacy settings you establish.

2016, Suzie Hayman, John Coleman, Parents and Digital Technology: How to Raise the Connected Generation, page 46

Adults are sharenting because the structure of the online world makes it very easy to do and even encourages it.

2020, John Palfrey, forward of Leah A. Plunkett, Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk About Our Kids Online, page X

Thus, this study aimed to ascertain how Australian parents are sharenting on social media, and to understand both their awareness of risk, and their perceptions of their children's rights to privacy.

2021, Anna Potter, Renee Barnes, “The 'Sharent' Trap: Parenting in the Digital Age and a Child's Right to Privacy”, in Catherine Archer, Donell Holloway, Francesca Stocco, Karen Murcia, Michele A. Willson, editors, Young Children's Rights in a Digital World: Play, Design and Practice, page 286

(neologism) To document one's child's upbringing on social media, typically by posting photos, videos, etc.


Instadad

With Instadads making their mark on social media, Catherine Hudson checks out their must-haves

2017 March, Catherine Hudson, “Who's the daddy?”, in Gurgle, page 81

The Instadad (@therealburrmartin) has more followers than his daughter, standing at almost 153,000.

2018 March 1, “5 questions for...Instadad Burr Martin”, in Big Daddy, page 11

As torchbearers for an unapologetically involved form of fatherhood, the Instadads congregate, share advice, and provide support to each other, as well as a growing audience of male and female parents on Instagram.

2020, Mario Campana, Astrid Van den Bossche, Bryoney Miller, “#dadtribe: Performing Sharenting Labourto Commercialise Involved Fatherhood”, in Journal of Macromarketing, volume 40, number 4

(informal) A father who runs an Instagram account focused on his child/children or fatherhood in general.


variabilize

variabilize (third-person singular simple present variabilizes, present participle variabilizing, simple past and past participle variabilized)

variabilizes (present singular third-person)
variabilizing (participle present)
variabilized (participle past)
variabilized (past)

(programming, databases, transitive) Rewrite (a database query, etc.) as a variable.


BookToker

Local romance and New York Times bestselling author Katee Robert has always had a devoted fanbase, but, this past year, her readership has grown to include an ever-increasing number of “BookTokers,” that is, TikTok users and accounts devoted to reading recommendations.

2021 May 30, Stephanie Hammett, “Romance writer ‘mildly obsessed with fairy tales and retellings’”, in The Spokesman-Review, 138th volume, number 356, Spokane, Wash., page D1

"She puts her characters through the most insane situations," says Kendra Keeter-Gray, a 23-year-old Los Angeles-based BookToker and associate producer.[…]"I feel like we all just want to feel something so badly," says 19-year-old college student and BookToker Samawia Akhter.

2022 January 24, Stephanie Merry, “On TikTok, crying is encouraged. Colleen Hoover gets the job done.”, in The Boston Globe, volume 301, number 24, page C10

BookTokers aestheticise not only the reading lifestyle, but the books themselves, with many members of the community choosing to buy books from-new.

2022 February 1, Lara Mellett, “Inside the world of BookTok: Where social media meets the printing press”, in Trinity News, volume 68, number 6, page 14

A member of the BookTok community on TikTok.


foodstagramming

Dayton maintains the policy isn’t designed to prohibit all foodstagramming.

2013 February 6, Aimee Blanchette, “Local chefs say their food is camera-ready”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXI, number 308, page E10

How ‘foodstagramming’ has changed the way we deal with our grub writes James P. Hall.[…]At the same time, certain restaurants in the U.S. and France have banned customers from taking pictures of their dishes, or “foodstagramming,” as it has become known.[…]Pizza tops the list when it comes to foodstagramming:[…]

2016 November 9, James P. Hall, “Bringing our food into focus”, in Vancouver Sun, page C7

Nowhere as in the current era of food porn and foodstagramming, star-chefs and cooking TV show, can the short-circuit between seeing and tasting be observed.

2018, Andrea Pavoni, “Introduction”, in Andrea Pavoni, Danilo Mandic, Caterina Nirta, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, editors, Taste (Law and the Senses), University of Westminster Press, page 31

On the one hand, the trend of “foodstagramming” is still going strong, with 69 per cent of millennials capturing the perfect foodie snap before eating.

2019 May 22, Robert Phelps, “Enjoy great food in sustainable packaging”, in Vancouver Sun, page A11

Despite the popularity of foodstagramming, the studies about this social phenomenon are rare, with little if any academic literature reporting on it to date (Wong et al., 2019). In this study, the subject of sharing food experience is examined by addressing the related social media platforms. It focuses on foodstagramming as a prominent subject and its possible effects in terms of user-generated content (UGC) and electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM).

2022, Sevinc Goktepe, Merve Aydogan Cifci, Mehmet Altug Sahin, “Sharing photos of food traveler experiences: a case study of foodstagramming”, in Dogan Gursoy, Rahul Pratap Singh Kaurav, editors, Handbook on Tourism and Social Media (Research Handbooks in Tourism), Edward Elgar Publishing, page 437

(Internet slang) The act of posting photos of food to Instagram.


Red Dragon Book

The textbook was originally published with a red dragon on its cover art.

(computer science, slang) The first edition of Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (1986), a notable textbook about compiler construction.


(computing, networking) an obsolete EUI used to address hardware interfaces within existing IEEE 802-based networking applications


(computing, networking) an EUI currently used for IEEE 802-based networking and is also used to identify other devices and software


(computing, networking) an obsolete EUI which originally encompassed both MAC-48 and EUI-48 identifiers by a simple translation mechanism


EUI

(computing, networking) Initialism of extended unique identifier.


working directory

en-noun

working directory (plural working directories)

(computing) The current directory (container for files etc.), on which commands will operate unless otherwise specified.


unconcatenate

en-verb

unconcatenate (third-person singular simple present unconcatenates, present participle unconcatenating, simple past and past participle unconcatenated)

unconcatenates (present singular third-person)
unconcatenating (participle present)
unconcatenated (participle past)
unconcatenated (past)

However, since we are going to save this combo box back to the file, this would require “unconcatenating” the names before writing them to file, something we would like to avoid.

2001, Patrick G. McKeown, Craig A. Piercy, Learning to Program with Visual Basic, page 181

The collapse argument tells R to “unconcatenate” the individual lines and create a single string vector.

2014, Larry Pace, R Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, page 65

(programming, transitive) To undo the process of concatenation.


private message

en-noun

private message (plural private messages)

By then I was receiving dozens of private messages in the game every hour from players I had never met who could see that my guildmate and I were out front: “OMG how did you level so fast?,” “Hey you must have a lot of gold, can I have some?” and of course “You guys are huge nerds.”

2007 January 19, Seth Schiesel, “O Brave New World That Has Such Gamers in It”, in The New York Times

(Internet) A message sent to another user of a social media or chat platform through a private channel as opposed to a publicly accessible area or chatroom.

privaatboodskap

communication to an individual social media user


private message

en-verb

private message (third-person singular simple present private messages, present participle private messaging, simple past and past participle private messaged)

private messages (present singular third-person)
private messaging (participle present)
private messaged (participle past)
private messaged (past)


unexport

unexport (third-person singular simple present unexports, present participle unexporting, simple past and past participle unexported)

unexports (present singular third-person)
unexporting (participle present)
unexported (participle past)
unexported (past)

Stopping the Web server and unexporting the remote object are tasks you are already familiar with.

2001, Rickard Öberg, Mastering RMI, page 252

(computing, transitive) To cease to export; to remove from a list of things to be exported.


type theory

en-noun

type theory (usually uncountable, plural type theories)

Coordinate term: set theory

Although it is not generally regarded as the foundation for classical mathematics, set theory being more customary, type theory still has numerous applications, especially in computer science and the theory of programming languages.

2013, Homotopy Type Theory: Univalent Foundations of Mathematics, Univalent Foundations, page 2

(mathematics, computer science) A branch of mathematical logic and theoretical computer science concerned with types.


ROW

(travel, video games, digital rights management) Initialism of rest of world.


FaCIAbook

Blend of Facebook + CIA, suggesting that the site has an ulterior motive of spying on its users, or is a tool of the US government.

All teh Important People have moved-on to FaciaBook...

2016 March 22, ah, “Friday, June 25 2015”, in demon.local (Usenet)

Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook [FaCIAbook] documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the US social media giant to account after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly refused to answer MPs' questions.

2018 December 3, jgsh...@aol.com, “You Saw This? Re: NY AG agrees to submit evidence of unprosecuted 9/11 federal crimes relating to destruction of WTCs to Special Criminal Grand Jury”, in peopleofCA12 (Google Groups)

Facebook takes down Trump campaign ads for 'violating our policy against organized hate' Facebook [FaCIAbook] on Thursday said it had take action against ads run by President Trump's re-election campaign for breaching its policies on hate. The ads, which attacked what the Trump campaign described as "Dangerous MOBS of far-left groups," featured an upside-down triangle... The ads targeted the far left group Antifa, calling on Trump supporters to back the President's calls to designate the group a terrorist organization. Responding to criticism of the ad earlier Thursday, the Trump campaign said the red triangle was "a symbol widely used by Antifa."

2020 July 19, Lori Price, “Protest in Albany as NY State Bar Association Walks Back COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Recommendation”, in I Hate Trump Fan Club (Google Groups)

(Internet slang, derogatory, rare) The social networking site Facebook.


format string

(programming) A string of text characters serving as a template for other strings, such as dd/MM/yyyy for a date.


UCaaS

(computing) Acronym of Unified Communications as a Service.


keysigning

(cryptography) The process of digitally signing someone else's public key using one's own.


deez nuts

After a bit of back-and-forth, the man suddenly shouts “Deez nuts!”, and since then, it’s become a viral joke.

2021 May 8, “TikTok: What are 'Deez Nuts' Jokes?”, in HITC

Nick Saban is known for his solemn and stern demeanor. So when Alabama safety Jordan Battle revealed his head coach has an affinity for "deez nuts" jokes, it was both shocking and hilarious.

2021 September 21, “Mac Jones confirms Nick Saban's love for 'deez' jokes”, in NBC Sports

It's got crunchy mixed in frozen fruits and is designed to be eaten with a spoon. Hard to make fun of deez nuts in our mouth.

2022 January 18, “This peanut butter made for gamers actually sounds delicious”, in PC Gamer

The best part is, of course, when he says “it’s time for love and unity” after flipping everyone off and shortly before telling them to suck “deez nuts.”

2022 March 11, “Kid Rock Is So Unoriginal, He Made the Same Bad Music Video All Over Again”, in Metal Sucks

(Internet slang, humorous) these nuts (testicles)


existential type

existential type (plural existential types)

Existential types are fundamentally no more complicated than universal types (in fact, we will see in §24.3 that existentials can straightforwardly be encoded in terms of universals).

2002, Benjamin C. Pierce, Types and Programming Languages, MIT Press, page 363

Scala 2 supported existential types, a way of abstracting over types. They let you assert that some type exists without specifying exactly what it is, usually because you don't know what it is and you don't need to know it in the current context.

2021, Dean Wampler, chapter 16, in Programming Scala, 3rd edition, O'Reilly

This behavior is what gives existential types their name: we are asserting that there exists some concrete type that matches the signature, and we leave it up to the compiler to find what that type is.

2021, Jon Gjengset, Rust for Rustaceans, No Starch Press, page 34

(programming, type systems) A type that hides the underlying concrete type(s).


no free lunch theorem

Derives from the phrase there's no such thing as a free lunch.

(artificial intelligence, computing) A theorem that implies that no single machine learning algorithm is universally the best-performing algorithm for all problems.


subathon

All of this is part of what is known on Twitch as a “subathon.” A subathon is a short period of time when a streamer will engage in certain activities or stunts to accrue paid subscriptions to his or her channel.

2021 March 18, Taylor Lorenz, “The Endless Stream”, in The New York Times

(Internet, Twitch-speak) A live stream (especially on Twitch) intended to gain subscribers, especially one whose duration is extended every time the streamer receives a subscription.


tube site

From tube (“television”), probably more immediately from YouTube, a very popular (but not pornographic) video-sharing site.

(Internet) A website for the uploading and playback of pornographic videos.


Peterson's algorithm

(computing theory) A concurrent programming algorithm for mutual exclusion that allows two or more processes to share a single-use resource without conflict, using only shared memory for communication.


despeckler

(computer graphics) A process or algorithm that removes speckles.


OUI

(computing) Initialism of organizationally unique identifier.


algebraic data type

algebraic data type (plural algebraic data types)

So named because they have algebraic properties with respect to their cardinality similar to normal integers.

Generally, algebraic data types represent sums of products, where the cases form the alternatives of a sum type, and each case represents a product type that can be constructed from zero to many constitutent types. An EDT is a special case of ADT where each product type is a singleton.

2021, Martin Odersky et al., chapter 19, in Programming in Scala, 5th edition, Artima

(programming, type theory) A data type formed by combining other types.


GMail

There is a major controversy brewing around GMail, the “free” e-mail service from Google providing 1 gigabyte of free storage, far more than any other ISP offers.

2004, Paul Greenberg, CRM at the Speed of Light, Third Edition: Essential Customer Strategies for the 21st Century, page 120

I got in to the oh-so-awesome GMail network courtesy of a friend last week. Now, another e-mail id to look after? That is not exactly convenient.

2004 May 18, Sushubh Mittal, “Google GMail – The Email Experience”, in Search Engine Journal

Maybe you like GMail so much you want to switch ALL your e-mail to it.

2007, Tara Calishain, Information Trapping: Real-time Research on the Web, page 231

(trademark) Alternative letter-case form of Gmail


unpartition

en-verb

unpartition (third-person singular simple present unpartitions, present participle unpartitioning, simple past and past participle unpartitioned)

unpartitions (present singular third-person)
unpartitioning (participle present)
unpartitioned (participle past)
unpartitioned (past)

(computing, transitive) To remove the partitions from (a disk drive, a database, etc.).


(computing) Initialism of mouse button 1., left mouse button


hypermissile

The sight of another hypermissile impacting the Shield mollified him only a little; the backup fire-control comp had taken over without a hiccup, but precious little good did that do him, isolated on the bridge with no way of knowing what was going on. The only comfort, and bare comfort at that, was that there was only one lance. And it was damaged, too.

1993, Sherwood Smith, Dave Trowbridge, The Phoenix in Flight, TOR, page 181

Pavanaz tripped into hyperspace, burned the cruiser with his exhaust, threw all power to his screens and deflected the carrier's hypermissiles.

2006, Brian Lumley, Screaming Science Fiction: Horrors from Out of Space, Subterranean Press, page 124

He did not need what it represented: a ship-size heat signature, something out in space beyond the asteroid, just a few kelvins. In the tactical display, blue diamonds shot toward the spot, hypermissiles tracking the tiny difference in temeprature. The ship did not fight back.

2017, Craig DeLancey, Evolution Commandos, 496\Perfect Number Press

(science fiction, rare, video games) An extremely advanced and powerful missile or projectile; a supermissile.


magnetic strip

(electronics, computing) A strip of magnetic material on which data is stored for later retrieval and reading by an electronic device.


ROILA

Robot Interaction Language
w:Robot Interaction Language

Abbreviation of Robot Interaction Language (“a spoken artificial language designed to allow talking to robots efficiently”).


greatbow

He hooked the tip of his own greatbow under the door’s hasp, muttered som thing under his breath and pulled, hard. Nothing happened. Again, and again nothing.

1981, Peter Morwood, The Warlord's Domain, DAW, page 84

You can turtle with a crossbow but you're wide open after every shot. Greatbows have knockdown but you're superslow.

2021 April 12, the_3rdist, “What is your all time favourite themed runs?”, in reddit.com

Maybe samurai would give you a head start for a greatbow build.

2022 February 14, ytinifniozob, Zamoku, “Greatbows”, in reddit.com

(rare, science fiction, video games, weaponry, fantasy) A giant bow; a longbow.


archcommander

/ɑɹt͡ʃ.kəˈmændɚ/

And they said,"We beseech thee, Michael , our Archcommander, transfer (μεταθες) us from them, for we cannot abide with evil and foolish men, because there is no good in them but all wickedness and greediness. We beg then that we may depart from them."

1903, Christian Faith and Life, Volume 7, page 5

Jagiello acted chivalrously; he had the body washed, covered with a purple shroud and sent to Malbork on a carriage drawn by four horses, together with the bodies of other dignitaries, such as the archcommander and the grand marshal.

1978, Paweł Jasienica, Jagiellonian Poland, American Institute of Polish Culture, page 103

The archcommander caught his arm and tried to draw him away, counseling caution, but the enraged Patrician shook him off, saying, "He gave you this place that should have been your prison and turned it into a palace, let you work your damned unnatural magics wherever you pleased, let you recruit more of your own kind...”

1995, Martha Wells, City of Bones, TOR, page 316

There's some major design flaws as well. Scaling for one is a pitta. Never liked it myself on any MMORPG, it's cheap, tacky, destroys tension and for me inserts a huge wad of loss of realism, oh, yes, those wasps I destroyed at level one in two seconds can now fight my uber level 200 with the 'Archcommanders Sword of Cheese Shoes' for ten minutes now! Go figure.

2019 April 23, Goromhir, yucklawyers, “Discussion / MOD 16 The End of Neverwinter. Lead Desinger failed.. ”, in forums.mmorpg.com

(rare, science fiction, fantasy, video games) The supreme commander; a commander-in-chief.


Stan Twitter

Stan Twitter and fans of Tinashe's pop agenda have been craving the release, thanks to lead 2016 single "Superlove."

2017, "Fall semester smashes", The Spectrum (University at Buffalo), 18 September 2017, page 6

Stan Twitter has kept going even when 1D [One Direction] didn't.

2020, "Grace", quoted in Hannah Ewens, Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture, page 170

Even if she only gets to see her friends from Stan Twitter at concerts, their friendship is genuine.

2020 October 7, Dylan Yono, “Twitter stans and superfans”, in The Michigan Daily, The University of Michigan, page 11

(Internet) A community of fans on Twitter, centering around shared interest in celebrities, TV shows, movies, and social media.


omnielemental

Like for a turn or three he deals piercing damage or Omnielemental damage with attacks and unlock something like Apotheosis and all it's source skills for one turn. Something.

2018 August 17, divinedpk, terrovek3, “Is summoning getting any changes in the definitive edition?”, in reddit.com

I don’t like the omnielemental builds for the Cra, that is why I didn’t go omnielemental/critics, but this is my opinion, and I want to know yours. What do you think?

2019 October 8, “Do you believe a water/air lvl. 199 Cra is viable?”, in reddit.com

I am skeptical of becoming of Harbinger, simply because the Traveler will be omnielemental at that point, removing the need for a delusion.

2022 February 13, azadeth24, Patient_Insect_4463, “pure speculation here - a lil theory about the upcoming plot that I came up with recently. feel free to add your thoughts or debunk this entire thing in the comments 🛐 btw i have no idea why wouldn’t celestia just stop the tsaritsa”, in reddit.com

(rare, fantasy, science fiction, video games) Encompassing all elemental attributes possible.


blawger

Attorneys are finding fans (and some fame) by posting legal commentary on the Internet. Here's a look at four such blawgers.

2003, ABA Journal, March 2003, page 2 (table of contents)

First, there is fear that the lack of accountability conferred by the cloak of anonymity will permit blawgers to make false or scurrilous claims.

2009, Judy M. Cornett, "The Ethics of Blawging: A Genre Analysis", Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Volume 41, Issue 1, Fall 2009, page 240

Intellectual property lawyers are perhaps the most enthusiastic blawgers.

2011, Peter Groves, A Dictionary of Intellectual Property Law, page 32

(Internet) A person who runs a blawg (law blog).


blawgosphere

Right now large firms are underrepresented in the "blawgosphere."

2005, "Between Lawyers Roundtable: The Future of Legal Blogging", Law Practice Magazine, July/August 2005

While the number of judge-authored blawgs is less than the number of blawgs published by other members of the legal community, such as attorneys or law professors, they do have a presence in the blawgosphere that cannot be denied.

2009, Brian A. Craddock, “2009: A Blawg Odyssey: Exploring How the Legal Community Is Using Blogs and How Blogs are Changing the Legal Community”, in Mercer Law Review.pdf?sequence=1), volume 60, number 4, page 1359

Women are underrepresented throughout legal academia from the ranks of professors down to the “blawgosphere” of law professor blogging.

2021, Dara E. Purvis, “Legal Education as Hegemonic Masculinity”, in Villanova Law Review, volume 65, number 5, page 1145

(Internet) The totality of blawgs (law blogs); the community of blawgers.


CRTP

curiously recurring template pattern#English

(programming) Initialism of curiously recurring template pattern.


protestware

Commenting on the malicious code added to the “Vue-cli” application, GitHub user “nm17” said a continued expansion of protestware would erode public trust in open-source software.

2022 March 17, Brian Krebs, “Pro-Ukraine ‘Protestware’ Pushes Antiwar Ads, Geo-Targeted Malware”, in Krebs on Security

In January, two other popular modules called colors and faker were intentionally sabotaged by their maintainer. Is protestware going to become a common problem?

2022 March 19, Lucian Constantin, “Developer sabotages own npm module prompting open-source supply chain security questions”, in CSO Magazine

In fact, what we've seen over the last week is something called “protestware”, and that is some damaging and non-damaging code put into open source projects, specifically focused on organizations in Russia and Belarus. Now, they are making a statement, and that falls under what we call “hacktivism”.

2022 March 21, “CNN Follows Marines Fighting to Take Back Kherson from Russia”, in CNN International First Move with Julia Chatterley, spoken by George Kurtz

(computing, neologism) Software subverted to serve the ends of a political protest, for example by deleting files or displaying propaganda messages.


nursing informatics

information technology
information technology

(nursing, computing) Informatics as applied to nursing: the application of information science and information technology to nursing science and practice.


health informatics

(medicine, computing) Informatics as applied to health and health care: the application of information science and information technology to health (that is, to its maintenance or improvement).

medical informatics

usually synonymous in practice, despite the plesionymic potential, except when differentiated from nursing informatics as a coordinate term


medical informatics

(medicine, computing) Informatics as applied to medicine: the application of information science and information technology to medical care and any other health care.

health informatics

usually synonymous in practice, despite the plesionymic potential, except when medical informatics is differentiated from nursing informatics as a coordinate term


multiapp

Some people can find the multiapp approach in Windows 8.1 confusing at first, but I will explain in this section how easy it is to use.

2013, Mike Halsey, Beginning Windows 8.1, page 241

(computing) Involving or relating to several software applications.


undispatch

undispatch (third-person singular simple present undispatches, present participle undispatching, simple past and past participle undispatched)

undispatches (present singular third-person)
undispatching (participle present)
undispatched (participle past)
undispatched (past)

It reduces I/O latency, for selected eligible I/Os, to the point that z/OS no longer needs to undispatch the running task.

2021, Peter Kimmel, Sherri Brunson, Lisa Martinez, IBM DS8900F Performance Best Practices and Monitoring, page 22

(computing, transitive) To cancel a process of dispatching.


cycle sort

(computing theory) A sorting algorithm based on the idea that the permutation to be sorted can be factored into cycles that can be rotated individually to give a sorted result.


gnome sort

Named by Dutch computer scientist Dick Grune, based on a metaphor of a gnome walking along a line of flowerpots in order to sort them.

(computing theory) A variation of the insertion sort that does not use nested loops.


credential stuffing

(computing) A kind of cyberattack in which a large batch of account credentials stolen from one service are tried against another service in an attempt to log in.


bucky bit

The term was invented at Stanford and is based on Swiss computer scientist Niklaus Wirth's nickname of Bucky. Wirth suggested this keyboard feature in the mid-1960s.

(computing) A bit (binary digit) in the binary representation of a text character that is set by means of a modifier key on the keyboard, allowing numerous characters to be produced by different combinations of keypresses.


one-cold

One-cold encoding has the same advantages and disadvantages as one-hot. The difference is that the active bit is logic zero rather than logic one. One-cold encoding is most useful for systems that have active-low enable signals.

2015, Ronald W. Mehler, Digital Integrated Circuit Design Using Verilog and Systemverilog, Elsevier, page 410

(electronics, computer science) A set of bits with only a single low (0) bit, with the remaining bits high (1).


duckroll

From duck + roll. In 2006, Christopher "Moot" Poole implemented a wordfilter replacing egg with duck on 4chan, causing instances of eggroll on the site to become duckroll. This inspired an anonymous 4chan user to create an image macro featuring a duck with wheels edited onto its body and the caption "duckroll." The image was later used to prank 4chan users, who were lured into clicking what was presented as an interesting link, but instead lead to the "duckroll."

You told me that it was a really nice picture, but all I see is a duckroll.

Duckroll became a silly prank meme when 4chan users started linking their friends to an ostensibly cool site, only to be met with a picture of a duck on wheels with the word duckroll written on it.

2011, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, page 60

Examples of bait-and-switch images and videos include The Hampster Dance, Duckroll, Rickroll, […]

2015, Jamie Bartlett, The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld, page 251

When you've been around to witness Rickrolling go from a forced-meme variant of the traditional 4chan Duckroll to having Rick Astley himself sing “Never Gonna Give You Up,” unannounced and on live national television, during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade last year, it's hard to ignore how crucial the 4chan-spawned Anonymous “Hivemind” has been to the development of internet culture since its inception six years ago.

2022, Carlos Avitia-Velazquez, Javier Avitia-Velazquez, Curb Children, unnumbered page

(Internet slang) A bait-and-switch Internet prank involving the sharing of a link that leads to a picture of a duck on wheels instead of what is claimed.


Zeno machine

(computing theory) A hypothetical computational model, related to Turing machines, that would be capable of carrying out computations involving a countably infinite number of algorithmic steps.


gas fee

(cryptocurrencies) A fee levied on users of the Ethereum network to compensate for the computing energy required to process and validate transactions.


IFNA

(computing, historical) Acronym of International FidoNet Association.


flamemail

en-noun

flamemail (countable and uncountable, plural flamemails)

Such knee-jerk reactions will usually lead to a volume of unwanted, unnecessary and uncomfortable flamemail directed at you and occasionally every company e-mail address that the Internet rovers can find.

1998, Public Relations Quarterly, volume 43, page 32

Flamemails may be used as a shield for the manager who lacks the skills of face-to-face communication or for someone who would rather avoid any type of direct confrontation with others.

2009, Lynda Macdonald, Tolley's Managing Email & Internet Use, page 32

A commercial and retail bank employee sends a “flamemail”. The defamatory email details experiences with an identified customer. It is circulated internally, but someone leaks it.

2013, Tracey Walker, Reputation Matters, page 169

(Internet) Aggressively insulting email.


liquidity pool

(finance) A collection of financial assets consisting of cash and other assets that can be readily converted to cash at close to face value.

(cryptocurrencies) cryptocurrency assets that are kept to facilitate the trading of trading pairs on decentralized exchanges


burgir

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(Internet) Pronunciation spelling of burger.


versionless

(chiefly computing) Without a version or versions; not associated with a specific version of something.


Google is your friend

(Internet slang) A suggestion that the addressee could learn something using an Internet search engine, rather than asking others.


Googlemania

(uncommon, Internet slang) An obsession or fixation with the search engine Google.


Googlemaniac

(uncommon, Internet slang) A person exhibiting Googlemania.


Googlise

en-verb

Googlise (third-person singular simple present Googlises, present participle Googlising, simple past and past participle Googlised)

Googlises (present singular third-person)
Googlising (participle present)
Googlised (participle past)
Googlised (past)

(transitive, uncommon, Internet) To render (someone or something) searchable on the search engine Google.


subservice

Each service includes several subservices which can either be a request to a service provider, i.e. an on-board application process, or a report from the provider.

2015, Jens Eickhoff, The FLP Microsatellite Platform: Flight Operations Manual, page 56

(chiefly computing) A service that forms part of a larger service.


sliding window

(programming) A descriptor for a data analysis technique where overlapping windows of data of fixed size are analyzed.


Googleplex

Blend of Google + complex, and a reference to googolplex (“10^{10^{100”)}}.

Both Larry and Sergey wanted to make Google a fun place to work. Reflecting their beliefs, the Googleplex was decorated with Lava Lamps and painted in the bright colors of the Google Logo […]

2006, Michael A. Hitt, C. Chet Miller, Adrienne Colella, Organizational Behavior: A Strategic Approach, John Wiley & Sons

(business) The corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc.


Commodorian

He ended up, in only four years, a member of the executive bonus plan, a plan that made millionaires of more than a few "Commodorians".

1985, High-tech Marketing, volume 2, page 78

It is extremely gratifying to see that the Commodore spirit is alive and well, and new “Commodorians” are continuing the tradition of innovation that we began, so many years ago.

2014, Roberto Dillon, Ready: A Commodore 64 Retrospective

(informal, computing) An employee of the computer company Commodore International, or a fan of its products.


pokeyman

(humorous) Alternative letter-case form of Pokeyman.


Pokeymen

> Damn. That's it. Next time I do something wrong I'm going to blame Rock Music for corrupting my mind.
Wait! Don't be so drastic! Blame it on Barney the purple dinosaur instead. Maybe we can get rid of the grape-colored goomer once and for all if people blame all the bad stuff on him. After he's gone, we can focus on Pokeymen and the Teletubbies.

2000 April 22, Elroy Willis, “What is a nerd to do?”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-13

now, get back to your spongebob and your pokeymen... ;o)

2005 May 16, Fizzlestix, “What is a nerd to do?”, in alt.games.video.xbox (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-13

In Pokeymen Sun, it's day when it's day in real life, and night when it's night in real life.
In Pokeymen Moon, it's reversed.

2017 March 17, deKay, “Planned Weekend Gaming (PWG) 17-3-17”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-13


Pokeyman

Okay, let me explain something to you.
This is a Pokémon newsgroup. This is where people who like Pokémon come to talk, not where bashing of Pokémon is encouraged. If you dislike Pokémon to such a degree, and think so lowly of those who like it, then you are lowering your own mental activity by visiting this newsgroup and posting TWICE.
Also, you never did explain what's wrong with Pokémon, besides that it's popular among seventh-grade students.
You didn't understand that? Okay, let me put it in your language:
U fuckin' fag, dis is a damn Pokeyman newsgrup! Why da hell are u fuckin' dissin' Pokeyman in a fuckin' Pokeyman newsgrup?!
There. Did you understand that? Good.

1999 December 4, Andrusi, “I HATE POKÈMON!”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12

Is DBz bigger or going to be bigger than Pokeyman?

2000 June 1, Denis de Laplante, “OT: 1 Question”, in alt.fan.dragonball (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12

My kids like pokeyman. I've treated them to pokeyman toys, books, videos, "snap" nintendo 64 game, and even a live show at the coleseum.
But pokeyman is still not the world's greatest hobby. Not by any stretch.

2001 February 9, Brian, “Who Is What?”, in rec.radio.amateur.policy (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12

Must be tough to rub one out to a Pokeyman movie then...

2001 April 25, Thomas Wharry, “My Wings Changes”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.det-redwings (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12

And wasn't there an anime about some racer who was speedy? Maybe not quite as much of a phenomenon as Pokeymans or Saylermans (with no sub release like the others mentioned here), but still did well on its own?

2007 August 9, Megane, “Re: ADV and the A, B, C-titles”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12


tech-bro

(informal, neologism) Alternative form of tech bro


Gouraud

Effect 6: Gouraud spacecut - Probably the worst effect in the demo - has been done miles better before!

1995, dro...@vnet.ibm.com, “Demo review - Killing time by oxyron”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet)

When view point changes rapidly – when the user walks through the environnemt – a simple and fast Gouraud is used, making all class-3 patches appear black.

2013, Kadi Bouatouch, Christian Bouville, Photorealism in Computer Graphics, page 111

(computer graphics, chiefly attributive) Short for Gouraud shading.


EXE

(computing) Alternative letter-case form of exe.


Fuckbook

Facebook is turning into a mean horrible thing. I got more real friends in these news groups than I do on fuckbook.

2012 October 25, BuZZard, “FUCKBOOK”, in alt.countrystuff (Usenet)

For so long she's stayed away from everybody's Fuckbook pages, but now she types in Facebook. She stares at the login screen and tries to remember her username, her password.

Twit and Fuckbook emerge and before long they are infected with the human race's weirdos.

(vulgar, derogatory, humorous, chiefly Internet) Facebook.


FPSE

A flaw in the SmartHTML Interpreter contained in Microsoft Corp.'s FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) could enable an attacker to run malicious code or to instigate a denial-of-service attack, Microsoft said in a security advisory late yesterday.

2002 September 26, David Legard, “Microsoft finds 'critical' FrontPage security flaw”, in Computerworld, archived from the original on 2022-04-16

FrontPage Server Extensions
w:FrontPage Server Extensions

(software) Initialism of FrontPage Server Extensions.


sexyman

Wheatley would not reach the same fame as the sexymen that would come later, but he was still given the original sexyman treatment. He was given a universally accepted humanized form so that Tumblr users could feel okay about wanting to fuck a robot—a skinny white man with blonde hair and glasses. My thoughts on Wheatley himself? None, he seems cool, I guess. My thoughts on him being a sexyman? I hate it.

2021, Belle, "Tumblr Sexymen: A Never-Ending Cycle of Questionable Taste", LOCO Mag, 2 August 2021

Whatever’s in store, fans can rest easy knowing their lil skeleton guy [Sans of Undertale] is now the undisputed sexyman of Tumblr.

2022 September 8, Isaiah Colbert, “Good News, Undertale Fans: Toby Fox Just Wrote A Sans x Mob Psycho 100 Story”, in Kotaku

It's… pretty involved, but it eventually turns out that the key to being a sexyman is not to be sexy at all—which is great news for me—and Reigen was brought low by his conventional attractiveness.

2022 September 15, Joshua Wolens, “Toby Fox wrote a fanfic to explain why Undertale's Sans is the 'ultimate Tumblr sexyman'”, in PC Gamer

(fandom slang) Ellipsis of Tumblr sexyman.


unencapsulate

unencapsulate (third-person singular simple present unencapsulates, present participle unencapsulating, simple past and past participle unencapsulated)

unencapsulates (present singular third-person)
unencapsulating (participle present)
unencapsulated (participle past)
unencapsulated (past)

This subtle change would, in effect, unencapsulate the data structure, since Line 15 would then perform a shallow copy.

2009, William McAllister, Data Structures and Algorithms Using Java, page 93

(transitive, computing) To remove from encapsulation.


hacklike

(video games) A subgenre of roguelikes, characterized by persistent dungeons, little equipment upgrade path, large inventory size, single screen dungeon size, and towns without supplies.


MCPE

(video games) Initialism of Minecraft Pocket Edition.


IPAM

(Internet) Acronym of IP address management.