OoT

Ocarina of Time
w:The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

(video games) Initialism of Ocarina of Time.


Capcom

A clipped compound of Capsule Computers, a term coined by the company for the arcade machines it solely manufactured in its early years, designed to set themselves apart from personal computers that were becoming widespread. Capsule alludes to how Capcom likened its game software to “a capsule packed to the brim with gaming fun”, and to the company’s desire to protect its intellectual property with a hard outer shell, preventing illegal copies and inferior imitations.

(video games, trademark) A Japanese video game developer and publisher


clogosphere

From clog + -o- + -sphere, by analogy with blogosphere.

(blogging, slang, derogatory, rare) The totality of bloggers advocating forms of pseudoscience, the paranormal, and conspiracy theories.


autoclicker

From auto- + clicker or autoclick + -er.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing) A program that simulates the click of a mouse, typically used to automate commands in a graphical user interface.


Danth's Law

(Internet, humorous) An adage that states that a person who insists that they have won an Internet argument has probably very badly lost.


gongbang

Transliteration of Korean 공방 (gongbang), short for 공부방송, literally "study broadcast".

(Internet) An online video broadcast in which a person studies while interacting with their audience.


superinformation

(computing, physics) Medium capable of containing information that specifies particular physical states in which copying is impossible, usually in the realm of quantum computing.

superinformation highway
superinformation highway

(dated, computing) A computer network capable of high throughput, as in superinformation highway.


Wingding

(computing, trademark) A glyph from a Wingdings font.


Webdings

Blend of web + dingbat, introduced as a trademark by Microsoft.

(computing) An internet-oriented dingbat font based on Wingdings.


BLP

Ariel added a note to Keith's article on Wikipedia, but strictly speaking, her note isn't properly cited, especially for a BLP page. (Silly perhaps, but Wiki isn't really a first-person news reporting site.) There's more on the Talk page.

2007 February 3, Android Cat, “Re: Keith Henson”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet)

w:Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of biography of a living person.


HOF

higher-order function
higher-order function#English

(functional programming) Initialism of higher-order function.


'gram

... iconic travel experiences; they learned to use filters to make the scenes Don't do it for the 'gram: Social media and traveling.

2019, A.M. Bristow, Traveling More & Traveling Better: A GnomeTrotting Guide

The ambience was overrated at the party / I want to run away before it's even started / I look at my feet, then I look for the door (Oh my God) / Can't find my friends, […] / But I don't wanna follow you on the 'gram / I don't wanna listen to your band / I don't know why I haven't left yet / Don't want none of this

2022, Teasdale Rhian Louise (lyrics and music), “Angelica”, in Wet Leg, performed by Wet Leg, Domino, →OCLC


wumao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 五毛 (wǔmáo), a clipping of 五毛黨／五毛党 (wǔmáodǎng), lit. "the 5 dime party", in reference to allegations that the Chinese government employs online shills paid 1/2 yuan RMB per online post.

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

An alleged Internet user who is paid by the authorities of the People's Republic of China to spread propaganda and disinformation on their behalf.


spleef

en-verb

spleef (third-person singular simple present spleefs, present participle spleefing, simple past and past participle spleefed)

spleefs (present singular third-person)
spleefing (participle present)
spleefed (participle past)
spleefed (past)

From Spleef, the name of a minigame on Minecraft, a blend of splat + grief.

These servers host many types of gameplay, from minigames, to spleefing (my favorite), to PvP (I'm terrible at Player-vs-Player battles), to fractions, to Survival, to Creative . . . It's amazing what people have created with Minecraft, and these many, many servers are evidence of the creative potential Minecraft offers those with imaginative minds.

2015, Mark Cheverton, The Jungle Temple Oracle: The Mystery of Herobrine, page IX

It also includes everything you need to Spleef right, like observation posts and an entrance way (most Spleef games are teleported to from servers, so they need somewhere to enter), and it would work great on just about any server.

Minecraft Event, Jan. 24 to April 25, Jan. 24 10 a.m. Kida ages 7 to 14 are invited to join in the “grinding, building, spleefing and raising of diamond swords” at this monthly Minecraft Event with instructor Rand Whipple and the Box of Light Studio staff.

2015 January 15, “The List: A Weekly Guide to Area Events & Attractions”, in The Citizens’ Voice, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., page J12, column 4

As parents are confused at the dinner table when their offspring talk about ‘Endermen’ and ‘spleefing’[…]

2017 August, “Reviews”, in Starburst, page 101, column 2

(video games) To play the Minecraft game of "Spleef", in which players try to knock blocks out from beneath other players in order to be the last player standing.


autoscroll

autoscroll (third-person singular simple present autoscrolls, present participle autoscrolling, simple past and past participle autoscrolled)

autoscrolls (present singular third-person)
autoscrolling (participle present)
autoscrolled (participle past)
autoscrolled (past)

(graphical user interface) To automatically scroll. Usually activated with the middle button of a mouse. The distance of the cursor from the original location on the screen where the middle button was activated controls speed (increasing with distance) and scrolling direction.


garbageware

(computing, slang, derogatory) Extremely poor software.


deinterleaver

(computing) A program or algorithm that deinterleaves.


interleaver

(computing) A program or algorithm that interleaves.


usermode

(computing, often attributive) A level of privilege on a system allowing users to run programs etc. safely without full access to the operating system.


AWDS

Advance Wars: Dual Strike
w:Advance Wars: Dual Strike

(video games) Initialism of Advance Wars: Dual Strike.


press F to pay respects

From a prompt in the PC version of the 2014 video game Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare which directs the player to press the F key to touch a fallen soldier's coffin during a funeral cutscene.

The sundry restaurant comings and goings that made our digital readers press F to pay respects will be covered by food critic Hillary Brown in her year-end wrap-up in the Jan. 9 issue.

2018, Blake Aued, "Give the People What They Want", Flagpole, 26 December 2018 - 2 January 2019, page 6

Press F to pay respects to friends who have midterms this week.

2019, "Off The Record", The Student Life (Claremont Colleges), 29 March 2019, page 6

Whether you're reading this as an escape from the buzz of events or found it discarded on a chair somewhere (press F to pay respects), let me take this opportunity to give you a warm welcome to Southampton.

2019, Charlotte Colombo, "A New Chapter!", Wessex Scene (University of Southampton), September 2019, page 2

(Internet slang, humorous, often sarcastic) Used to convey that sympathy, recognition, or credit should be given.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
press F to pay respects


wake-sleep algorithm

en-noun

wake-sleep algorithm (plural wake-sleep algorithms)

(computing theory) A certain unsupervised learning algorithm for neural networks, having separate "wake" and "sleep" phases that attempt to connect the layers of neurons in alternating directions.


cocktail game

Atari sold it as a cartridge, upright video, and as a cocktail game.

1993, Gene N. Landrum, Profiles of Genius: Thirteen Creative Men who Changed the World

Accordingly, cocktail games were commonly programmed either for cooperative play or to rotate between multiple competitors in turns.

2015, Nathan Altice, I Am Error, page 20

A video game built into a cocktail table.


Pent

I have encountered this problem on several computers from 486's to Pents. The only thing I have found to fix it is make sure the CD-Rom cache is set fairly high in the cdrom setup of win 95, and make sure to eliminate ALL unnecessary 16-bit drivers in your autoexec.bat and config.sys.

1996 February 19, Jeremy Kott, “Re: strange pauses....”, in alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000 (Usenet)

(computing) A Pentium microprocessor or computer.


value restriction

A typical example is an expression returning always the empty list. It should be given the polymorphic type α list, but this is not possible under the value restriction if the expression has to be evaluated.

2004, Jacques Garrigue, Relaxing the Value Restriction

It has been found empirically that eta expansion usually suffices for dealing with the value restriction.

2007, Geoffrey Smith, Notes on SML97's Value Restriction

(computer science, type theory) In a functional language, inference of a polymorphic type only for syntactic values (values that can be evaluated at compile time) to ensure that a program is type-safe.


taxonavigation

From taxo- + navigation. Coined on Wikispecies, which was launched in 2004.

Taxonavigation in design and architecture, much like the contemporary preoccupation with tagging, labeling, blogging, and wikiing has become integral to praxis and pedagogy.

2012, Liat Margolis, “Encoding Digital and Analogue Taxonavigation”, in Thomas Schröpfer, editor, Material Design: Informing Architecture by Materiality, Walter de Gruyter, page 148

A good example for a taxonomy is the Wikispecies project, which aims at creating a directory of species. In the “Taxonavigation” the path in the taxonomy leading to the species is depicted.

2014, S Arroyo, K Siorpaes, “ONTOLOGIES AND ONTOLOGY LANGUAGES”, in Handbook of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, World Scientific, page 145

Taxonavigation of microalgae
Chlorella vulgaris belongs to Chlorophyta (green algae) […] they were subjected to classification by dividing under main taxonomic groups based on their pigmentation.

2019 September, G. Panduranga Murthy, Rajesh Kumar, “Optimized production of biodiesel by fresh water algae oils derived from Chlorella wild stuff and performance characteristics of engine system by employing integration of chemical sciences and engineering technologies”, in NISCAIR-CSIR, India

(taxonomy) The navigation of a directory of species or other taxonomic entities.


PMD

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon
w:Pokémon Mystery Dungeon

(video games) Initialism of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon.


VSD

VSD (countable and uncountable, plural VSDs)

(computer graphics) Initialism of visible-surface determination.


BCI

bit-count integrity
bit-count integrity#English

(networking) Initialism of bit-count integrity.

Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) aren’t a new idea. Various forms of BCI are already available, from ones that sit on top of your head and measure brain signals to devices that are implanted into your brain tissue.

2018 January 1, Sarah Marsh, “Neurotechnology, Elon Musk and the goal of human enhancement”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

A BCI is a device that allows for direct communication between the brain and a machine. Foundational to this technology is the ability to decode neural signals that arise in the brain into commands that can be recognized by the machine.

2019 October 24, Oscar Schwartz, “Mind-reading tech? How private companies could gain access to our brains”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

brain–computer interface
w:brain–computer interface

(computing) Initialism of brain–computer interface.


Cornell box

(computer graphics) A physical box with variously coloured walls and an inner light source, photographed and used to gauge the accuracy of a computer rendering of the same scene.


allocation unit

allocation unit (plural allocation units)

(computing) Synonym of cluster (“data storage unit”)


memeable

en-adj

memeable (comparative more memeable, superlative most memeable)

more memeable (comparative)
most memeable (superlative)

I fear that a good number of viewers are going to watch the new Twin Peaks eagerly anticipating the charming, consumable, GIF-able, and meme-able elements: the comedy, the flirtations, the quizzical reaction shots, and dry banter; the ritual consumption of coffee, donuts, and pie; […]

2017 May 19, Ubiquitous, “Why Twin Peaks Is Not the Series We’ve Convinced Ourselves It Was”, in alt.tv.twin-peaks (Usenet)

Morwenna enjoying some Monster Munch in a very memeable Emilia Wickstead dress. [image caption]

2019 June 16, Morwenna Ferrier, “What does it meme? The rise and rise of the fashion viral”, in The Guardian

(Internet slang) Able to be turned into a meme; having the potential to become a meme.


kaizo

From Kaizo Mario World, the name of an early set of fan-created levels in this style first released in 2007, where kaizo is from Japanese 改造 (kaizō, “revamp, remodel, modify”).

bor

I like too, he stole kaizo. Like, that name, that's the ubiquitous term for romhacks that are more annoying to play. […] Is kaizo now just like an internet adjective for anything that's, like, mildly irritating?]

[2011 April 1, Michael "Slowbeef" Sawyer, That's so Kaizo!, archived from the original on 2023-01-20

I recently played the kaizo hack known as Invictus.[…]As my sore hand recovers, I’m left asking this question: is “kaizo” good game design?

2019 May 5, Josh Bycer, “The Bizarre World of Kaizo Games”, in Medium (published in SUPERJUMP)

What if it could be different? What if there was a way for your average Mario player to learn these tricks? That’s what GrandPOObear, one of Mario Maker’s most prolific streamers, is trying to accomplish with his already-impressive “tech talk” series, where he combines detailed video tutorials explaining basic kaizo techniques alongside Mario Maker 2 stages he’s specifically designed to help anyone accomplish those very same techniques.[…]GrandPOObear wasn’t born with inherent kaizo knowledge;

2019 July 11, Patrick Klepek, “'Mario Maker' Expert Creates Easy Way to Learn Game's Secret Kaizo Tricks”, in Vice

Troll and kaizo levels, however, are designed to generate very different sets of emotions in their players, and to understand these we must understand first their construction and the intentions of their designers, before considering their players.

2020, Mark R. Johnson, “Playful Work and Laborious Play in Super Mario Maker”, in Pablo Abend, Sonia Fizek, Mathias Fuchs, Karin Wenz, editors, Digital Culture & Society (09: Laborious Play and Playful Work I), volume 5, number 2/2019, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, page 110

A kaizo trap is an obstacle that will kill the player if it gets triggered, but there is no way of knowing where a trap is unless it gets sprung.

2020, Joshua Bycer, Game Design Deep Dive: Platformers, CRC Press

Many Mario Maker 2 kaizo stages can take over 25 hours for a top-level player to beat. Even at its most impressive, solving a kaizo level is an incredibly repetitive act: Each one of them will take hundreds (if not thousands) of attempts to clear, meaning that any viewer will essentially be watching the same level for hours on end. For some reason, watching GrandPOObear, or other kaizo speed runners try and fail, over and over again was the only thing I could focus on, the only thing that kept the fear out of my mind.

2020 January 20, Sam Greszes, “Waiting and watching: How brutally difficult Mario levels helped me through my mom’s stroke recovery”, in The Washington Post

“There’s still a stigma in the [Super Mario Maker 2] community that troll levels have, which is that people think the super expert hot garbage levels are troll levels,” Chichiri said. “And the well-made troll levels are so much the opposite. They are carefully designed levels made with a lot of planning and psychology in them. It’s not just ‘Lul kaizo block’ or ‘Lul enemy spam’ or ‘Lul this required item was in this hidden block you’d NEVER ever find.’ So I wish people would stop calling the hot garbage levels ‘troll levels’ when they’re really not.”

2020 April 1, Michael Goroff, “These Super Mario Maker Level Designers Have Elevated Trolling Into an Artform”, in Electronic Gaming Monthly

A simple, unexpected obstacle is not only funny but also creates that special sauce that makes kaizo so fun to watch.[…]The most classic example of a kaizo troll is set up like this: You’re jumping over a pit, but midway through the jump you bonk your head on a block that wasn’t there before, sending you to your death.

2021 June 18, Jeremy Signor, “Six Super Mario kaizo trolls that surprise and delight”, in Polygon

While the game doesn’t touch the main plot or structure of the original Pokémon Emerald, this Kaizo edition changes basically everything else. […]Pokémon Dark Rising: Kaizo. That last one is a remake of the first, only much more difficult like you’d expect from a Kaizo game, but also has some significant plot and structural changes that make it worth experiencing again.

2022 May 27, Jesse Lennox, Digital Trends

(video games, often attributive) A philosophy of game design distinguished by very high difficulty levels and hidden traps that can only be solved by repeated deaths and trial and error, especially associated with romhacks of Super Mario games.


micropolygon

(computer graphics) A very small polygon.


voodoo programming

(programming, informal) A slapdash approach to programming involving guesswork or plagiarism rather than proper analysis and comprehension.


cyberlibel

The news website Rappler, Ressa, its executive editor, and former researcher and writer Reynaldo Santos Jr were accused of cyberlibel over a story that alleged links between a businessman and a top judge.

2020 June 15, Maria Ressa, “Journalist Maria Ressa found guilty of 'cyberlibel' in Philippines”, in The Guardian

(Philippines, Internet, law) The act or crime of making a defamatory statement (libel) about someone on the Internet; such a statement.


NG+

(video games) Initialism of new game plus.


Zalgo

Said to have been coined in 2004 by Dave “Shmorky” Kelly as the name of a mysterious malevolent entity appearing in webcomics and creepypasta.

Anyway. My personal opinion is that people are making a bigger deal about it than it needs to be. Just be aware that there could maybe potentially be an issue in your app if you release Zalgo, but don't spend the hours going through and wrapping everything in nextTick just to say you are Zalgo-free even if Zalgo being released has ever doomed you.

2013 August 30, Paul, “Re: [nodejs] Downside to not wrapping sync callbacks in nextTick()?”, in nodejs (Usenet), message-ID <53ece666-5929-41ba-843c-edc4350af00d@googlegroups.com>

This works wonderfully, until you hit an exception in one of your zalgo-promise functions.

2013 August 30, Dean Landolt, “Re: [nodejs] Downside to not wrapping sync callbacks in nextTick()?”, in nodejs (Usenet), message-ID <CAPm8pjp2ogU58Z5RsZ_RQb_O=iB3RBeoh1eyM6xp-0Vwm7cebQ@mail.gmail.com>

Another crucial detail is to consider the unleashing Zalgo anti-pattern (we have seen it in action in Chapter 1, Node.js Design Fundamentals).

2014 December 30, Mario Casciaro, Luciano Mammino, “Chapter 6”, in Node.js Design Patterns, Packt, page 281

The explosion in execution branches makes explaining and testing this approach difficult, and reliable behavior in a production environment more challenging. Isaac Schlueter has written a popular blog post about this titled “Designing APIs for Asynchrony,” in which he refers to the inconsistent behavior as “releasing Zalgo.”

2015 July, Daniel Parker, “Chapter 1: Asynchronous JavaScript”, in JavaScript with Promises: Managing Asynchronous Code, O'Reilly Media, page 6

The JavaScript community, for instance, has discovered a monstrous entity named “Zalgo.” […] When you are passing around lambdas, it is easy to release Zalgo if you mix synchronous and asynchronous styles.

2015, Robert Fischer, “Chapter 2: Understanding Lambdas in Java 8”, in Java Closures and Lambda, Don’t Release Zalgo, page 29

(programming, humorous) A notional entity said to be "released" due to unpredictable program behaviour resulting from an API's inconsistent use of synchronous versus asynchronous operations.


detokenizer

(computing) A program or algorithm that detokenizes.


OPMN

(databases, Oracle) Abbreviation of Oracle Process Management and Notification.


limit break

Introduced in the Final Fantasy game series.

(video games) A special move accompanied by a cinematic sequence, accessible when a character's power gauge has filled up to a certain point.


Stanford bunny

en-noun

Stanford bunny (plural Stanford bunnies)

Developed in 1994 at Stanford University.

(computer graphics) A three-dimensional model of a rabbit figurine, used to test rendering algorithms etc.


Stanford dragon

Stanford dragon (plural Stanford dragons)

(computer graphics) A three-dimensional model of a dragon figurine, used to test rendering algorithms etc.


tech bro

Of tech + bro (“a frat boy or someone that espouses the fraternity bro culture”). Attested from 2010s (see quotations below).

Fort Mason, a renovated military post on the bay, has been nicknamed “Frat Mason” for the 20-something “tech bros” — tech company salespeople, marketing employees and start-up founders — who have moved into luxury apartments there and play bocce on the great lawn.

2013 November 24, Erica Goode, Claire Cain Miller, “Backlash by the Bay”, in New York Times

“U.S.S. Callister” inverts this idea by having its tech-bro channel his resentment into fashioning his own personal matrix.

2017 December 30, James Poniewozik, “Free Your Mind? ‘Black Mirror’ Isn’t Too Hopeful”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Are Tech Bros, as one Redditor claimed, members of a “hyper technocratic, libertarian…boys club”?

2019 October, James Ross Gardner, “Who will mourn the tech bro?”, in Seattle Met

A term that once mocked a particular Bay Area cultural phenomenon has become an all-purpose epithet. In the process, it has lost whatever analytic value and rhetorical punch it once had. If tech bros are everywhere, then they are nowhere.

2021 January 27, Gilad Edelman, “Stop calling everyone a tech bro”, in Wired

(informal, neologism) A hypermasculine man employed in the tech industry and stereotypically located in Silicon Valley.


const-correct

(programming) Exhibiting const correctness.


LFF

(computing) Initialism of large form factor, referring to 3.5 inch hard drives contrasted with 2.5 inch drives


retopologization

(computer graphics) Synonym of retopology


.txt

(computing) An extension for a text file


.dat

From the first three letters of "data" (data).

(computing) An extension for a data file.


phantom type

2004 July 31, Markus Mottl, "Phantom types" on caml-listhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200622172054/https://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2004/07/3a19a05047ea9332426bba1d8bc403ce.en.html
Phantom types not only allow you to capture constraints, which are proved by the compiler, they are also perfectly cheap computationally, because you don't have to check things at runtime all the time.

(computing theory) A parameterized type that does not depend on all of its type parameters.


offline installer

offline installer (plural offline installers)

(computing) A single-executable installer for a program that already contains the full program. It does not need to connect to the Internet.


web installer

(computing) A single-executable stub installer for a program that downloads the full installer from the Internet on runtime. It may download a different version depending on the user's system.


Q-learning

(computing theory) A model-free reinforcement learning algorithm to learn a policy telling an agent what action to take under what circumstances.


in-tree

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) Located inside of a source tree.

(software engineering) Taking place inside of a source tree.


in-tree

en-adv

in-tree (comparative more in-tree, superlative most in-tree)

more in-tree (comparative)
most in-tree (superlative)

(software engineering) Inside of a source tree.


out-of-tree

out-of-tree driver

(software engineering) Located outside of a source tree.

out-of-tree build

(software engineering) Taking place outside of a source tree.


out-of-tree

out-of-tree (comparative more out-of-tree, superlative most out-of-tree)

more out-of-tree (comparative)
most out-of-tree (superlative)

build the module out-of-tree

(software engineering) Outside of a source tree.


federator

Our extended standard GIS web Service components are integrated into the system through a federator, which is actually a WMS that is extended with capability-aggregating and stateful service capabilities to enable high performance support for responsive GIS applications.

2009, Nik Bessis, Grid Technology for Maximizing Collaborative Decision Management and Support, page 281

The results of the crawler, the administrative components, and the federator are stored in a database.

2012, Paul Baan, Enterprise Information Management, page 183

The federator now can implement logic that determines where the data is placed.

2013, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments, page 68

(computing) A component that integrates access to various services.


fail whale

The fail whale originated on Twitter; the term was coined by web designer Jen Simmons in 2007 in a tweet.

coinage

(Internet slang) An image of a whale that formerly accompanied certain error messages on the Twitter microblogging website.


PTP

Precision Time Protocol
w:Precision Time Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Precision Time Protocol.

Coordinate term: MTP

Picture Transfer Protocol
w:Picture Transfer Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Picture Transfer Protocol, used to transfer images from digital cameras to computers.


neumorphism

From new + skeuomorphism. A December 19, 2019 Medium posthttps://uxdesign.cc/neumorphism-in-user-interfaces-b47cef3bf3a6?gi=d16d78e27024 by Michal Malewicz credits the name to Jason Kelley (who spelled it Neuomorphism, on 3 December 2019https://medium.com/@jason_kelley/neuomorphism-2c4cbe84caae).

Unlike its predecessor, neumorphism makes use of very mild and subtle effects, and does not try to over represent objects in nature, but create a new form that appears like a clay render […] of mostly analog elements from the old world.

2020 January 21, David Ofiare, "Neumorphism the right way — A 2020 Design Trend" on Mediumhttps://medium.com/@artofofiare/neumorphism-the-right-way-a-2020-design-trend-386e6a09040a

When you boil it down, neumorphism is a focus on how light moves in three-dimensional space.

2020 June 25, Jack Koloskus, Apple, Big Sur, and the rise of Neumorphism

Their work for clients like Tata AIG, where their UX team designed one of the first sites based on the Neumorphism model, the #GiftThoughtFully campaign for Home Centre where they handled the content & creative aspect, video directive for Saint Gobain and helping build the brand Alyte for Mahindra Logistics, right from its brand identity to planning a pan India launch, has received great reviews from customers and industry stakeholders, both.

2020 November 24, “The Minimalist onboards over 45 new clients, brings in new hires, appraisals, and incentives to motivate employees and adapt with new normal”, in Business Insider India

Second, the Material design as the most recent UI design trends and the Neumorphism design were compared with the method of expression based on the definition and characteristics of Neumorphism design that we investigated. In this context, we also analyzed the possibility of Neumorphism becoming the new UI design trend.

2021 February, Park, Ji-Hye, Na-Yea Oh, and Jin-Wan Park, “A study on UI design trends analysis with neumorphism design”, in The Journal of the Korea Contents Association, →DOI, Abstract

The problem arises because of its evident accessibility issues. Because of this, Neumorphism has hardly ever been implemented in final products.

2021 May 2, Rodrigo Osornio, “Tridimensionality: skeuomorphism, flat design, and neumorphism”, in UX Collective

(graphical user interface, neologism) A user interface style that is characterized by flat design, combined with soft shadows and highlights.


GADT

Generalized Algebraic Data Types, or GADTs for short, are an extension of the variants we saw in Chapter 7 (Variants). GADTs are more expressive than regular variants, which helps you create types that more precisely match the shape of the program you want to write.

2022, Anil Madhavapeddy, Yaron Minsky, Real World OCaml: Functional Programming for the Masses, Cambridge University Press

generalized algebraic data type
w:generalized algebraic data type

(programming) Initialism of generalized algebraic data type.


bofa

"Hey, do you know what bofa is?" "What's bofa?" "Bofa deez nuts in your mouth!"

(chiefly Internet, humorous, typically considered vulgar) An interjection of "both of my balls" or "both of deez nuts".


metalearning

(computing theory) A form of machine learning where automatic learning algorithms are applied to metadata about machine learning experiments, so that the machine learns how to learn.


hiptop

Blend of hip + laptop. Perhaps introduced as a brand name; see Danger Hiptop.

Newer browsers will ignore them; mobile phones, palmtops, and hiptops often have very basic browsers that understand only the basic tags.

2006, Eve Astrid Andersson, Philip Greenspun, Andrew Grumet, Software Engineering for Internet Applications, page 346

But the Web comes in two flavors on mobile devices. On newer “smart” phones, PDAs, and hiptops, you can get the regular, glorious Web—the one you're used to seeing on your desktop or laptop computer—via a small Web browser.

2006, Sarah Milstein, J. D. Biersdorfer, Rael Dornfest, Google: The Missing Manual

(computing) A small portable personal computer somewhat like a smartphone.


autoscaler

(computing) A system that automatically increases or decreases the resources available to a process depending on need and availability.


georestriction

en-noun

georestriction (countable and uncountable, plural georestrictions)

(computing) The deliberate limitation of a (digital) product or service so that it is only available to users in certain geographic regions.


generative adversarial network

generative adversarial network (plural generative adversarial networks)

generative adversarial networks (plural)

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence) A system used in machine learning, consisting of two neural networks, one of which generates candidate solutions to a problem while the other evaluates and accepts or rejects them.


click-through rate

click-through rate (plural click-through rates)

(Internet, advertising) A ratio of the number of clicks on a unit of online advertising to the number of times it is shown.


game set

Calque of Japanese ゲームセット (gēmu setto), derived from English game, set, match.


TPF

Transaction Processing Facility
w:Transaction Processing Facility

Initialism of Transaction Processing Facility.


Sawzall

Marketing coinage for the tool; from saw; evoking the collocation saws all ("saws everything"); coined by Milkwaukee Tool for its Sawzall brand of reciprocating saw.

programming language
programming language

(computing) A domain-specific programming language.


CBOW

computational linguistics
computational linguistics

continuous bag of words
continuous bag of words#English

(computational linguistics) Initialism of continuous bag of words.


skip-gram

(computational linguistics) An n-gram in which component words need not be adjacent.


word vector

(computational linguistics) A vector of weights that represents a word in numerical form.


one-hot

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


continuous bag of words

continuous bag of words (plural continuous bags of words)

(computational linguistics) A bag of words comprised of the words in the vicinity of a specific target.


activation function

activation function (plural activation functions)

(computer science) A function that defines the output of a particular node in an artificial neural network on the basis of its inputs.


cookie wall

(Internet) A barrier to viewing a website, requiring the user to agree to accept an HTTP cookie before proceeding.


I$

(computing) Short for instruction cache.


Harvard architecture

Harvard architecture (countable and uncountable, plural Harvard architectures)

computer architecture
computer architecture

(computing) A computer architecture in which program instructions and data are stored on separate memories and accessed via separate buses.


Fediverse

Blend of federation + universe. The earliest known mention of fediverse on Twitter was in 2012. It has been in use since. The earliest known use of fediverse in W3C was in 2013.

While there is clearly a strong appetite amongst women to move away from the digital giants, Spinster is hardly free from their reach, or indeed from hostile men within the wider Fediverse network.

2020, Jessica Megarry, The Limitations of Social Media Feminism: No Space of Our Own, Springer Nature, page 303

The migration of Gab marked a major test for the Fediverse. Because no one authority controlled the policies of the network, it would be impossible to bar Gab with a single sweeping action, the way centralized social networks such as Facebook or Twitter might.

2022, “Decentralized networks vs the trolls”, in Hoda Mahmoudi et al., editors, Fundamental Challenges to Global Peace and Security, Springer Nature, page 149

Instead of creating a single unified platform, the the protocol that Mastodon uses, called ActivityPub, allows anyone to use open-source software to boot up a server that hosts a Twitter-style community with its own rules. Together those servers, and other, non-Mastodon ones, form a collective of interlinked communities dubbed the “Fediverse.”

2022 November 14, Will Knight, “The Man Behind Mastodon Built It for This Moment”, in Wired, →ISSN

(Internet) The distributed social network of federated services using open standard communication protocols, especially ActivityPub and historically OStatus.


MSU

(software, Windows) Initialism of Microsoft Update.


uninstantiation

uninstantiation (usually uncountable, plural uninstantiations)

(programming) The process of uninstantiating; destruction of an instance.


uninstantiate

en-verb

uninstantiate (third-person singular simple present uninstantiates, present participle uninstantiating, simple past and past participle uninstantiated)

uninstantiates (present singular third-person)
uninstantiating (participle present)
uninstantiated (participle past)
uninstantiated (past)

(programming, transitive) To destroy or annul (an instance of something); to eliminate (a variable, object, etc.) that was created earlier.


cursorjacking

Blend of cursor + hijacking; compare clickjacking.

(Internet, neologism) The malicious practice of tricking a user into clicking a visual element they did not intend to click, by manipulating the cursor's apparent location.


ghost character

en-noun

ghost character (plural ghost characters)

(computing) Kanji included in JIS X 0208 of unknown origin.


Moravec's paradox

Articulated in the 1980s by Hans Moravec, among others.

Dr. Herculano-Houzel's research on the human brain reveals an unexpected insight that sheds light on Moravec's paradox: our ability to perceive and respond to our immediate environment actually demands a lot of brainpower.

2016, Hod Lipson, Melba Kurman, Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead, MIT Press, page 73

(computing, robotics) The observation that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning (which is high-level in humans) requires very little computation, but sensorimotor skills (comparatively low-level in humans) require enormous computational resources.


xeet

Combination of X + tweet. Originated from a July 2023 hoax claiming that tweets would be renamed as part of the site's rebrand from Twitter to X.

One of the biggest questions on everyone’s minds since the change: what are we supposed to call a “tweet” now? Many users have guessed “xeet,” a variation on the original term “tweet.” Posts alleging to be screenshots of the Twitter help center page including the term “xeet” have even circulated on the platform, though notes beneath those tweets have marked them false and a quick visit to the official help page shows only the term “tweet” and no sign of “xeet.”]

[2023 July 25, Mary Walrath-Holdridge, “X’s and Xeets: What we know about Twitter’s rebrand, new logo so far”, in USA Today

As of Wednesday, he [Greg Hwang] was tweeting (xeeting?) from @x1234567998765, including one tweet (xeet?) that read, “Alls well that ends well.”

2023 July 26, A.J. McDougall, “Elon Offers Twitter User Merch After Stealing His @X Handle”, in Daily Beast

haha, great #xeet my friend, dattebayo!

“This is my 88th xeet, Heil Hitler,” the account said, using a portmanteau to describe posting on X. The number 88 holds significance for neo-Nazis

2024 January 5, Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, quoting Alexander Katsnelson, “Ex-Gosar staffers have voiced racism, antisemitism and homophobia on social media”, in AZ Mirror

Your oomf? Don't be silly. You're not oomfs. Not anymore. And examining Marcy's priv xeets, it's doubtful you ever were.

Erm future banger xeet? Follow me! Also!! Dont forget your click! arab.org/

(Twitter, humorous) Alternative form of tweet


xeet

en-verb

xeet (third-person singular simple present xeets, present participle xeeting, simple past and past participle xeeted)

xeets (present singular third-person)
xeeting (participle present)
xeeted (participle past)
xeeted (past)

Just got to my office (the bathroom) and ready to start xeeting

She actually xeeted this.


denormalizer

(databases) A process or algorithm that denormalizes.


iPadOS

(computing, mobile telephony) A mobile operating system (OS) created and developed by Apple Inc. used for its tablets.


blue check

From the blue check mark badge that was previously displayed beside the names of such users. The second sense derives from the rude behavior from an influx of users who paid for extra features in their Twitter accounts from early 2023 onwards.

Other blue checks on Twitter also weighed including Questlove and John Mayer.

2016 January 27, Adelle Platon, “Wiz Khalifa, John Mayer & More React to Kanye West's 'Waves' Album Name Change”, in Billboard

It is a cardboard gold crown, but it helps in certain cases; for example, Twitter support will prioritize intervention requests when trolls attack a blue check.

2020, Joanne McNeil, Lurking: How a Person Became a User, unnumbered page

Some posted images of the French Revolution or the Korean film ‘Parasite’ as a way to show the feelings of the masses when the powerful “elites” of Twitter could not use their accounts. This is due to a perception that many “blue checks” only retweet each other and that the social media giant somehow prioritizes these verified accounts.

2020 July 16, Seth J. Frantzman, “Many celebrate as verified Twitter users unable to tweet due to hack”, in The Jerusalem Post

(Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) A Twitter user whose account was verified by Twitter as authentic (i.e. not a parody or imposter account) and deemed to be of public interest prior to this system's replacement by a paid verification scheme in early 2023.


blue checkmark

But when records of bad decisions find their way into the spotlight, it is seemingly impossible to keep the pitchfork-wielding blue checkmarks at bay.

2019 February 14, Erik Halvorson, “Past wrongs should be met with grace and forgiveness”, in The Hillside Collegian, Hillsdale College, page A5

But on the night of the caucuses, disaster! The blue checkmarks of rose Twitter caught wind of your plot!

2020 February 26, Sean Casey, “The view from the twilight zone”, in The Stanford Daily, Stanford University, page 4

"I do think that some of the blue-checkmark brigade backlash on Twitter that you all in the media so predictably overreact to is non-organic," he says, using the Trumpworld shorthand for "verified" Twitter users. (Gaetz is a verified Twitter user.)

2020 March, Ryan Bort, “The MAGA Mouthpiece”, in Rolling Stone, page 42


blue check mark

en-noun

blue check mark (plural blue check marks)

“Some blue check marks,” he said, in reference to verified users on Twitter, “are trying to take credit for Epstein’s arrest, but I think we all know where the real investigations are coming from . . . The chans are incredible!”

2019 July 10, Travis View, “How conspiracy theorists taint the justice they seek”, in The Washington Post

I think a lot of Democrats around the country imagine a Justice League-style building where all the party players have an office and there is a conference room where Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, the presidential candidates, and all your favorite Blue Check Marks on Twitter get together to make strategic decisions.

2020, Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again, unnumbered page

A month later most of us are voluntary detainees in our homes as part of an inspiring— if weird—act of mass solidarity. We are not doing it because «fear porn» made us or because the blue check marks hate Donald Trump.

2020 April 17, Tim Miller, “The Ballad of Clay Travis”, in Gorizont Russian Newspaper, page 13

(dated, Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) Synonym of blue check.


HSR

(computer graphics) Initialism of hidden-surface removal.


Weird Twitter

You may not be paid, but you've got major cred with Weird Twitter, so enjoy it while it lasts, @pizzahut.

2012, Kevin O'Toole & Nathaniel Edwards, "Abandon All Hope...", North by Northwestern, Fall 2012, page 51

Since being discovered, Weird Twitter has been poked, prodded, analyzed and made merciless fun of.

2013 November 12, Samantha Bares, “We should appreciate 'Weird Twitter'”, in The Daily Reveille, Louisiana State University, page 9

Oftentimes, the funniest tweets emerge from the peculiar depths of "Weird Twitter," a subculture so twistedly surreal that it could curl Salvador Dali's moustache.

2015, Daniel Konikoff, "140 characters of comic gold", Varsity (The University of Toronto), 22 March 2015, page 18

(Internet) A community of Twitter accounts dedicated to satirical, absurdist, or subversive humor.


GOT

GOT (countable and uncountable, plural GOTs)

(programming) Initialism of global offset table.


linux

(software) Any unix-like operating system that uses the Linux kernel.


drop target

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) The window or other object that receives the dragged item in a drag and drop operation.


walrus operator

walrus operator (plural walrus operators)

The notation := has been humorously reinterpreted as the face of a walrus, with two eyes and two tusks.

(programming, informal) The operator := that assigns values to variables in certain programming languages.


chunkwise

(computing) In terms of chunks; one chunk of data at a time.


cottagecore

If you've ever yearned for an idyllic life in the country, then cottagecore is for you.

2021, Emily Kent, The Little Book of Cottagecore: Traditional Skills for a Simpler Life, page 5

Underneath the clutter, the twin-size mattress was covered with a patchwork quilt and sheets dotted with tiny pink roses. There was a ruffled mint green bed skirt to match the ruffled gingham valance above the window. It was like standing in the cottagecore Holy Land.

2021, Susannah Nix, Elementary Romantic Calculus, unnumbered page

I weeded and watered all while being nurtured myself. Working for Granny felt more like a cottagecore vacation than it should at times.

2021, Willa Reece, Wildwood Whispers, unnumbered page

Each show spans over 180 minutes, including 40-plus songs from at least nine albums; there are 16 costume changes, pyrotechnics, an optical illusion in which she appears to dive into the stage and swim, and not one but two cottagecore worlds, which feature an abundance of moss.

2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time

(aesthetic) An aesthetic that celebrates a return to traditional skills and crafts associated with rural living, such as sewing, gardening, foraging, baking, and pottery.

shabby chic

interior design style favouring worn furniture


walljump

(video games) Alternative spelling of wall jump


spinning rust

In reference to the mechanical motion and the use of metal oxides.

(computing, informal, humorous) hard disks


10x developer

Elite athletes practice for many hours per day to develop their abilities. If you aspire to be an elite programmer, you should, too. Try to see 10x developers as role models that motivate you to code more, just as a child may see Michael Jordan as a role model who motivates them to shoot hoops more.

2016, Yevgeniy Brikman, Hello, Startup, O'Reilly Media

The fabled 10x developer can be a great help if they are able to work effectively with stakeholders, but often that productivity comes with a 10x ego as well.

2021, Jeremy Adamson, Minding the Machines, John Wiley & Sons

(software engineering) A software developer who is ten times as productive as peers.


flat design

(graphical user interface) A user interface style that that is characterized by the lack of shadows, giving a flat, two-dimensional look


SLED

(computing) Acronym of Single Large Expensive Disk.


bloggery

To me bloggery is much like modern poetry: most people want to write it than read it.

2007, The Spectator, volumes 303–304, page 56

(rare) The act or practice of writing a blog; blogging.


blogness

(rare) The state or quality of being a blog.


blogoverse

(Internet) The world or sphere of blogs; the blogosphere.


LZO

(computing) Initialism of Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer. (a lossless data compression algorithm)


poopsock

en-verb

poopsock (third-person singular simple present poopsocks, present participle poopsocking, simple past and past participle poopsocked)

poopsocks (present singular third-person)
poopsocking (participle present)
poopsocked (participle past)
poopsocked (past)

From poop + sock, suggesting defecation in a sock.

Blizzard has slammed the unhealthy practise of 'poopsocking'- the act of neglecting basic hygiene in favour of remaining at your PC.

2008 November 18, Adam Hartley, TechRadar

(video games, slang, intransitive) To be engrossed in a video game so much as to not leave to go to the toilet.


named parameter

en-noun

named parameter (plural named parameters)

In the function call foo(3, 6, type="bar"), type is a named parameter.

(programming) A parameter that is passed by name, rather than by position, in a function call.


positional parameter

positional parameter (plural positional parameters)

In the function call foo(3, 6, type="bar"), there are two different positional parameters, to which are passed the values 3 and 6.

(programming) a parameter that is passed by position, rather than by name, in a function call


bhop

en-verb

bhop (third-person singular simple present bhops, present participle bhopping, simple past and past participle bhopped)

bhops (present singular third-person)
bhopping (participle present)
bhopped (participle past)
bhopped (past)


location-agnostic

(computing) Not constrained to a particular location.


incelosphere

Almost 1,000 references to dehumanising misogyny or violent action are recorded each day in the “incelosphere” as the toxicity of male supremacist content continues to intensify.

2022 October 30, Mark Townsend, “Experts fear rising global ‘incel’ culture could provoke terrorism”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2023-12-03

2023 June, Lewys Brace, Stephane J. Baele, Debbie Ging, “Where do ‘mixed, unclear, and unstable’ ideologies come from? A data-driven answer centred on the incelosphere”, in Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism:

(Internet, neologism) The online communities where incels communicate.


RDM

RDM (third-person singular simple present RDMs, present participle RDMing, simple past and past participle RDMed)

RDMs (present singular third-person)
RDMing (participle present)
RDMed (participle past)
RDMed (past)

Do not RDM in the lobby.

Most servers have limitations on what’s acceptable for wardens and guards to do, but that’s mostly to prevent RDMing

2017 January 25, John Butler, The Inquisitr

(video games) To arbitrarily kill players in a video game, typically players on one's own team when friendly fire is enabled.


full stack

(computing) Alternative form of full-stack


microarchitect

Back-formation from microarchitecture. Equivalent to micro- + architect.

(computing) A person who designs a microarchitecture.


PEGI

Pan European Game Information
w:Pan European Game Information

(video games) Acronym of Pan European Game Information (“a video-game content rating system”).


resource hog

(computing, slang) A process which consumes a large amount of system resources compared to its importance or function.


resource pig

Office97 is a whorendous resource pig. It contains many useless features that seem to be designed for no other purpose than to induce you to buy a high end machine.

1998 March 22, Byron Bodo, “Re: How to boost speed of the computer”, in microsoft.public.win95.general.discussion (Usenet)

(computing, slang, rare) A resource hog.


over 9000

over nine thousand
over nine thousand#English


dark traffic

(Internet) Traffic to a website that is miscategorized by analytics software because it lacks data points such as the origin of the users.


ragetweet

ragetweet (third-person singular simple present ragetweets, present participle ragetweeting, simple past and past participle ragetweeted)

ragetweets (present singular third-person)
ragetweeting (participle present)
ragetweeted (participle past)
ragetweeted (past)

While their usefulness was debatable, they definitely gave the earlier V phones some identity, and there will certainly be a faction of LG fans who ragetweet the loss.

2017 October, Michael Simon, “LG V30 hands-on: A 6-inch beast with more power and fewer gimmicks”, in PC World, page 74

Trump was incensed by what he heard, even if he did not follow all the details. He spent Easter Sunday morning watching Fox and rage[-]tweeting about the migrants.

2019, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Michael D. Shear, Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, page 243

Welp. Another day, another thing for Twitter to rage-tweet about. This time, it’s all Netflix’s fault. Oh, and also, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss are to blame because people still aren’t over how they ruined the final season of Game of Thrones.

2019 August 8, Shannon Barbour, “LOL, Twitter Is Pissed About Netflix Hiring ‘Game of Thrones’ Writers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss”, in Cosmopolitan

(transitive, intransitive, informal) To post an update to Twitter in anger.


ragetweet

en-noun

ragetweet (countable and uncountable, plural ragetweets)

“Halt” understood that computing was culture. This idea — that technology is self-expression — has been cheapened through decades of faux-utopian advertising, and it rings a little sad today, after we’ve seen that culture yield social-media pile-ons, presidential ragetweets and the Gamergate harassment of female game developers like Cameron.

2017 October 14, James Poniewozik, “How Failure Made ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Great”, in The New York Times

The answer to that question has less to do with Donald Trump than the constant crush of anguished media attention to every Trumpian rage-tweet, racist slur, authoritarian-accented threat, and expression of seething contempt for our institutions makes it seem.

2018, Greg Sargent, An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Trumpian Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics, New York, NY: HarperCollins, page unknown

The Trump curse meant this White House was in turmoil from the very first day. Unmanaged and unmanageable, this president governs by ragetweet and paranoia.

2019, Rick Wilson, Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever, New York, NY: Free Press, page 169

(informal) An update posted to Twitter in anger.


vagueblog

en-verb

vagueblog (third-person singular simple present vagueblogs, present participle vagueblogging, simple past and past participle vagueblogged)

vagueblogs (present singular third-person)
vagueblogging (participle present)
vagueblogged (participle past)
vagueblogged (past)

A lot of people have called us out. Subtweeting, vagueblogging, saying that The CW is instituting a program that is esoteric, abstruse, and worse, morally bankrupt.

2015 December 7, Brook Becker, “New sexual health course based on relationships in Gossip Girl”, in The Collegian, University of Tulsa, page 14

She longed to go to him, embrace him, and more -- but she knew he'd never allow it, so she contented herself vagueblogging about him and posting raunchy "jokes".

2019, J. C. Cheesman, Wish Fulfillment, unnumbered page

use Tumblr to vagueblog
about him, go back
and delete every post
you have tagged with his name.

2020, Anonymous, "The Gen Z Guide to Letting Him Go", The Greenleaf Review 2020 (Guilford College), page 41

(Internet, neologism) To post deliberately cryptic statements on a social media or blogging platform.


cryptoransomware

en-noun

cryptoransomware (usually uncountable, plural cryptoransomwares)


edit warrior

As Wikipedia has grown, Wales has been forced to impose some more centralized, policelike measures–to guard against “edit warriors,” “point-of-view warriors,” “revert warriors,” and all those who have difficulty playing well with others.

2006, Brendan I. Koerner, The Best of Technology Writing 2006, page 113

Amid the scores of single-issue edit-warriors with screen names like PalestineRemembered, HumusSapiens, and G-Dett, two Wikipedians stand out for their tenacity and influence, and for the resourcefulness of their wikilawyering: Jayjg and SlimVirgin.

2007, Bidoun: A Quarterly Forum for Middle Eastern Talent, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60

Edit warriors, however, are more often than not myopic in their view of Wikipedia, believing that a “wrong” version should not be allowed to stand on Wikipedia—even for a day!

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, page 389

As the volume of work and of disputes grew, a Mediation Committee aiming to find common ground between edit warriors was established; it had no coercive power.

2009, Mathieu O'Neil, Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes, page 157

(wiki jargon) One who engages in an edit war.


BookTube

By introducing BookTube to students studying literature, teachers may be able to inspire additional engagement in both the reading and the reports or other assignments that are based on it.

2014, Marohang Limbu, Binod Gurung, Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization, page 96

I started my own BookTube channel in 2014 as a way to review books and talk about my writing.

2019, Jen Campbell, "BookTube", in Giles Clark & Angus Phillips, Inside Book Publishing, page 271

Booktube is a small community in YouTube that has exploded during these past few years.

2019, Rose Brock, Young Adult Literature in Action: A Librarian's Guide, 3rd Edition, page 30

The community of book and reading-related channels on YouTube.


Booklr

Over the last few years, we've seen the booklr community grow as quickly as our shelves, […]

2016, K. A. Beestone, "Introduction to The Book Nest", The Book Nest, Spring 2016, page 4

Booklr user ladybookmad started #readthemargin, dedicating the month of December to reading books by marginalized authors.

2016 December, Jenna Kilpinen, “Bookternet and diversity”, in Contrawoman, page 18

On YouTube, users who describe themselves as BookTubers are vlogging about books and reading, on Instagram we find posters using hashtags such as #bookstagram, while Tumblr has a sub-community Booklr.

2018, Dorothee Birke, Johannes Fehrle, “#booklove: How Reading Culture is Adapted on the Internet”, in Komparatistik, page 63

(Internet slang) The community of book and reading-oriented blogs on Tumblr.


hellsite

once we finally #VerifySteakUmm and blow the lid off this corrupted hellsite we'll do a @reddit AMA so all the fresh faces pouring in may know who we are and what we stand for

2018 January 16, Josh Hafner, “Steak-umm, the frozen cheesesteak brand, defeats Twitter in epic battle for verification”, in First Coast News

For those of you not active on the hellsite known as Twitter, Naked managed to finish the job of alienating the wine-writing community with a deliberately provocative piece of marketing copy […]

2018 June, David Williams, “Naked guns for a soft target”, in The Wine Merchant, page 15

"I had no idea that it would end up consuming so much of my time, so I just picked two things I enjoy," he says about his Twitter handle. "I might've chose something else that made more sense if I had known how popular this hellsite would become!"

2019, @recordsANDradio, quoted in Kelyn Soong, "People & Places," Washington City Paper, 10 May 2019, page 88

Every other news cycle, when any particular quake related to someone saying something stupid or disagreeable or out of touch or oftentimes simply oversharey occurs, it triggers a recurrent tsunami of contemplation of why any of us in the industry are on the hellsite at all.

2022 April 14, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair

(Internet slang, humorous) A social media platform (particularly Facebook, TikTok, Twitter or Tumblr) that attracts users despite issues with its design, functionality, or culture.


Bookstagrammer

It's a learning curve – each day you discover something new and it's through collaborating with other Bookstagrammers this is made possible.

2018 March, Vidhya Thakker, “Bookstagram Community”, in Unread, page 84

We get a lot of people coming in to take pictures for Instagram, so we pay attention to Instagram poets and bookstagrammers to know what our audience might want.

2019, Katie Orphan, quoted in Karen Schechner, "A Conversation with Katie Orphan, manager of The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles", Kirkus Reviews, 1 August 2019, page 165

I was pleasantly surprised how immediately warm and welcoming all the other bookstagrammers were of my account.

2020, Sam Miller, quoted in Linnea Wingerup, "Cheers To Being Queer (On The Internet!)", Peacock Magazine (American University of Paris), Spring 2020, page 37

An Instagrammer whose account focuses on books and reading.


Bookstagram

Some of the bigger Bookstagram accounts that I follow are @quoththebooklover who has 15.3k followers, […]

2017 March 30, Lottie Moulster, “The Rising Trend of 'Bookstagram”, in The Galleon, University of Portsmouth, page 13

Blogging was already something I did, but then I indulged in writing book reviews, which was the start of my journey on Bookstagram.

2018 March, Vidhya Thakker, “Bookstagram Community”, in Unread, page 83

Younger readers are passionate about new voices and new ideas but also about real, physical books and real, physical bookstores. They take photos of books. They create bookstagram accounts.

2019 May 1, Karen Schechner, “Q&Q with Mike Gustafson, Co-Owner of Literati Bookstore”, in Kirkus Reviews, page 124

The community of book and reading-oriented accounts on Instagram, characterized by artful photos of books.


Instapoetry

Literature itself is undergoing a similar transition. Indeed, as someone who once read a book a day for a whole year, the current wave of instapoetry, tiny tales, and Tumblr posts has introduced me to an interesting new dimension to storytelling and to engaging with one's audience.

2019, Shashi Tharoor, "Foreword", in Manoj Pandey, The Legacy of Nothing, unnumbered page

Meanwhile, The Washington Post considered the advent of Instapoetry to be a turning point for the art form—this was a new genre of poetry created for a global, online audience, and its legacy would be contingent on virality: […]

2019, Hussein Kesvani, Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims, page 146

Moreover, she links Instapoetry to the #metoo movement speaking out against sexual harassment and exploitation, and sees in the new voices of the female Instapoets an outlet for the expression of the female sexual gaze.

2020, Bronwen Thomas, Literature and Social Media, unnumbered page

A genre of short-form poetry, which emerged on Instagram in the late 2010s, and is typically presented in an aesthetically-pleasing manner.


Bookternet

I was inspired by all my newfound Bookternet friends—readers, writers, bloggers, booksellers, publishing world types, and fellow refugees.

2014, Maris Kreizman, “Publishing: A Story”, in Sari Botton, editor, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York, page 171

Through Goodreads, I was drawn into the world of the “bookternet,” an internet subculture of book-geeks, mostly young women who may have started their reading fanaticism with Harry Potter.

2018, Rebecca Hill, “Read Another Book: Repeat When Necessary”, in Jonathan Chambers, Stephannie S. Gearhart, editors, Reversing the Cult of Speed in Higher Education: The Slow Movement in the Arts and Humanities, page 176

To my whole Booktube, Bookternet family, ALL OF YOU: Thank you for being the best, kindest, most welcoming, most understanding, most supportive, gorgeous friends a girl could ask for.

2019, "Acknowledgements", in Christine Riccio, Again, but Better, page 376

The online community and subculture of book lovers.


Instaceleb

If you're an Instagram junkie (like me) you might better recognise Gracie under the name @pony_nuts because she's a bit of an Instaceleb in the equestrian world.

2018 July, Sophie Callahan, “Shoot of the Month”, in Absolute Horse, page 7

The country ran shuttles and posted signs encouraging visitors to enjoy the display responsibly, but those precautions didn't prevent rattlesnake bites, twisted ankles, heat exhaustion, Instacelebs and other selfie-takers lying in or otherwise trampling the delicate blooms they'd come to see.

2019 July, Jeffrey Rindskopf, “The Costs of Instatravel”, in DOPE Magazine, page 90

With nearly 200,000 followers, Men's Health fitness director EBENEZER SAMUEL is a bona fide Instaceleb.

2020 March, “Meanwhile, On Instagram...”, in Men's Health, page 12

A famous user of the photo-sharing and social media platform Instagram.


Instapoet

Instapoets were 'responsible for poetry going viral at a time when the genre was alleged to be all but dead', Bustle magazine wrote in 2018, in a piece looking at whether new social media poets were undermining or reviving the art and traditions of literary poetry.

Currently, no Instapoet has a higher profile than Rupi Kaur, the Punjabi-born Sikh Canadian whom Rolling Stone has called the “queen of Instapoets” and Fashion Magazine the “pop star of poetry.”

2020, Mike Chaser, Poetry Unbound: Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram

Popular Instapoets such as Indian-Canadian Rupi Kaur have parlayed their online success into multi-book contracts with print publishers.

2020, Simon Murray, Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture: Books as Media, unnumbered page

A poet working in the Instapoetry genre.


Instafamous

en-adj

Instafamous (comparative more Instafamous, superlative most Instafamous)

more Instafamous (comparative)
most Instafamous (superlative)

You see, this isn't such a rare sighting when it comes to the bald-headed, ultra-bendy, Instafamous yogi queen we know as Chocolate Yoga (@chocolate_yoga).

2018 January, Marley Jeranko, “Bending the Rules”, in Cherry Creek Lifestyle, page 54

Anyway, the point is, I'll get Instafamous one day.

2018, Zoe Stojanovic-Hill, "Editorial", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 9, Semester 2 (2018), page 2

Ta Tat Eatery makes its Instafamous katsu sando with toasted brioche, and it's safe to say none of its devotees seem to be sad for the lack of levain.

2019 October, Lauren Bravo, “The Rise and Fall”, in Foodism, page 56

(informal) Well-known or popular on Instagram.


Instaworthy

Instaworthy (comparative more Instaworthy, superlative most Instaworthy)

more Instaworthy (comparative)
most Instaworthy (superlative)

That wildflower meadow may be an Instaworthy campsite – but your tent can crush delicate vegetation.

2016, Darby Levin & Haley Weiss, "Trail Foods: Noshing in Nature", Penn Appétit (University of Pennsylvania), Spring 2016, page 17

Most tourists make a quick stop at one of two places in La Jolla: the Children's Pool to see the famous sea lions, or the La Jolla Shores Park to take an Instaworthy shot of the Scripps Pier at sunset.

2017, Amber Manan, "San Diego Hidden Gems", Twist, Spring 2017, page 33

A stone's throw from the hustle and bustle of the CBD is Elk Espresso, where a visionary menu of Instaworthy breakfast spreads are every bit as much of a feast for the eyes as the mouth.

2018 March, Laura Dundovic, “Golden girl”, in Jetstar, page 23

Lending itself to being photographed and posted on social media; photogenic.


computational geometry

1991, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Lines in Space—A Collection of Results, Jacob E. Goodman, Richard D. Pollack, William L. Steiger (editors), Discrete and Computational Geometry: Papers from the DIMACS Special Year, American Mathematical Society, Association for Computing Machinery, page 77,
In computational geometry it is a truism that problems in three-dimensional space, ℝ³, are significantly more difficult and complex than the corresponding problems in the two-dimensional plane, ℝ².

2003, Ren-Hong Wang, Multivariate Spline and Geometry, Ren-Hong Wang (editor), Computational Geometry, American Mathematical Society, International Press, page 195,
In this survey, we will be concerned with the relationship between multivariate splines and geometries including computational geometry, differential geometry, and algebraic geometry.

Computational geometry processing is about practical algorithms that operate on geometric data sets, and these data sets tend to be rather large if they are to be useful.

2012, J. Andreas Bærentzen, Jens Gravesen, François Anton, Henrik Aanæs, Guide to Computational Geometry Processing, Springer, page 1

(computer science, geometry) A field of study, within computer science, devoted to algorithms that solve problems formulated in geometric terms.


fleeceware

en-noun

fleeceware (usually uncountable, plural fleecewares)

→ Czech: fleeceware

→ German: Fleeceware

→ French: fleeceware

→ Portuguese: fleeceware

→ Spanish: fleeceware

Malware which under the guise of functionality finesses users into disbursing for subscription (i.e. “fleeces” them out of their money).


nonzeroary

(computing, mathematics, rare, nonstandard) Not zeroary.


postworthy

en-adj

postworthy (comparative more postworthy, superlative most postworthy)

more postworthy (comparative)
most postworthy (superlative)

My camp had looked somewhat ramshackle in the presentations but once I arrived, I knew it was a perfect, picturesque spot: […] There wasn't Instagram then, but the entire spread was very postworthy.

2016, Jill Kargman, Sprinkle Glitter on My Grave: Observations, Rants, and Other Uplifting Thoughts About Life, New York, NY: Ballantine Books, pages 46–47

Worthy of being posted to an Internet platform (blog, forum, social media etc.).


microinfluencer

From micro- (“small, tiny”) + influencer (“influential person on social media”).

af

Coordinate term: macroinfluencer

Accounts with between fifty thousand and two hundred thousand followers are considered “microinfluencers,” and tend to have higher engagement rates—that is, a larger share of their followers like, favorite, or comment on their posts—than those with millions of followers.

2017 April 17, Rachel Monroe, “#Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement”, in The New Yorker

By now you have probably heard of influencers, that group of internet-famous people who have more than a million social media followers and can make big money by plugging various brands. And you may have even heard of microinfluencers, who do the same thing for a still sizable but somewhat smaller social media audience — from the tens to low hundreds of thousands.

2018 November 11, Sapna Maheshwari, “Are You Ready for the Nanoinfluencers?”, in The New York Times

(social media) An Internet celebrity with a relatively small following on a social media platform.


skinfluencer

There's a growing breed of male skincare influencers – or ‘skinfluencers’ – who promote skincare regimens for men to have flawless visages. […] Regardless of why they come to skincare, retailers are taking notice, capitalising on the work from male skinfluencers and bringing in more of these male-focused skincare lines into stores.

2019 August 17, Sarah Manavis, “Male ‘skinfluencers’ are making bank recommending you moisturisers”, in GQ

I scrolled through the Reddit SkincareAddiction forum (what an apt name) for hours, and used my “emergency” credit card to buy products I couldn’t actually afford. I watched YouTube videos of dewy, glowing “skinfluencers” to learn the molecular differences between an essence and a toner.

2020 September 4, André-Naquian Wheeler, “I Have Clear Skin, Now What? Confessions From the Other Side of Adult Acne”, in Vogue

mr. yarbro’s ascent to skinfluencer fame began right when people started to quarantine. Real clothes and makeup went the way of indoor dining, and interest in skin care and in-home self-care soared.

2020 September 8, Rachel Strugatz, “The Content Creator Who Can Make or Break Your Skin Care Brand”, in The New York Times

(informal) A social media celebrity whose account focuses on skincare products.


tweetworthy

en-adj

tweetworthy (comparative more tweetworthy, superlative most tweetworthy)

more tweetworthy (comparative)
most tweetworthy (superlative)

Do we trust this WSJ article 100%? No, of course not. But we trust it enough. It’s tweetworthy. And after we’ve confirmed that fact we can go back down to the Daily Kos page and see if that article by Hunter has any useful additional analysis.

2017 April 12, Mike Caulfield, “How ‘News Literacy’ Gets Web Misinformation Wrong”, in Observer

In between the adorable, tweet-worthy soundbites, Emma asks me earnest questions. What happens after you die? Why do people have to die? Are Grampa Gary and Grampa Don in heaven?

2020 January 3, Jared Bilski, “What a hermit crab named Nigel taught me about death and parenting”, in The Washington Post

(Internet) Worthy of being posted on the microblogging service Twitter.


blogathon

(blogging, neologism) A period or event during which one or more people publish a large number of blog posts, usually about a specific subject.


nullish

(computing, JavaScript) Either being undefined or having a null value.


newsgroupie

Hey..I was curious...isn't there a pic of a lot of you newsgroupies out there somewhere?? I'm always curious what some of you people look like. :)

1999 March 27, AmyGrantfn, “Pic of Newsgroupies?”, in rec.music.artists.amy-grant (Usenet)

(Internet, slang) A user of Internet newsgroups; a newsgrouper.


demod

en-verb

demod (third-person singular simple present demods, present participle demodding, simple past and past participle demodded)

demods (present singular third-person)
demodding (participle present)
demodded (participle past)
demodded (past)

From de- + mod (“moderator; to moderate”).

We finally understood why moderators were not allowed to talk about the mod center without fearing the possibility of being demodded. (Try it yourself, ask a mod about the mod center and they will either become dramatically silent, or just say no.)

2007 April 15, TheAsianIn...@gmail.com, “Re: hack runescape accounts.”, in comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc (Usenet)

(transitive, Internet, informal) To demote (someone) from moderator status.


dehost

dehost (third-person singular simple present dehosts, present participle dehosting, simple past and past participle dehosted)

dehosts (present singular third-person)
dehosting (participle present)
dehosted (participle past)
dehosted (past)

Traceroute for the domain returns a "DNS Authoritative: Host not found". […] Might this be compatible with the owner having 'dehosted' the domain?

2012 May 12, Iain Archer, “Re: Police pursuits”, in uk.legal.moderated (Usenet)

(transitive, computing, Internet) To cause (a website etc.) to lose connection with its host.


uncrop

uncrop (third-person singular simple present uncrops, present participle uncropping, simple past and past participle uncropped)

uncrops (present singular third-person)
uncropping (participle present)
uncropped (participle past)
uncropped (past)

You can crop any part of a pdf. When you crop it, Preview actually keeps track of the part of the document you deleted and hangs on to it in case you want to uncrop the file, even after you've saved it.

2010, Robin Williams, John Tollett, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: A Quick Reference Guide to Mastering Snow Leopard! (Peachpit Learning Series), Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, page 202

In other words, if you rotate a photo, crop it, and then change its contrast, you have to use the Undo command three times—first to undo the contrast change, then to uncrop, and finally to unrotate.

2014, David Pogue, Lesa Snider, iPhoto: The Missing Manual, page 123

(transitive, chiefly computing) To undo the cropping of (an image).


ragebait

From rage + -bait (manipulation to elicit a particular response). Compare rage farm.

af

Even before I spoke with the political scientists, Nerst contended that a better understanding of today’s online argumentation would help people cope with its excesses. “Most people really are tired of shouting matches and want more nuance (according to surveys etc.),” he wrote to me, “and I hope we will develop some cultural immunity towards ragebait and hyperzealotry soon. […]”

2019 April 7, Jesse Singal, “The New Science of How to Argue—Constructively”, in The Atlantic

Donald Trump and Republicans understand this potent combination of content creation and shamelessness. Whether it’s weekend tweets by the president or Rudy Giuliani’s constant availability to journalists and Fox News hosts, Trumpists flood the zone with misinformation or ragebait.

2019 November 1, Charlie Warzel, “Can Democrats Compete With Trump’s Twitter Feed?”, in The New York Times

Beware ragebait, social media that traffic in fear
Does that Facebook post make your blood boil? Or does it make you fearful of the future? Those are two of the reddest flags out there. But there are more.

2019 December 12, Jessica Guynn, “Facebook disinformation in the 2020 presidential election: What you can do to stop its spread”, in USA Today

On any given day, those who get their news from the loudest voices on the right—Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Breitbart News—are bombarded with partisan propaganda, conspiracy theories, and cynical rage-bait.

2020 January 31, McKay Coppins, “The Conservatives Trying to Ditch Fake News”, in The Atlantic

The whole thing sounds Trumpian because it is. The Trump campaign was unabashed in 2016 and beyond about its plan to “flood the zone” with garbage or ragebait. The strategy worked in part because it engaged and energized his base.

2020 February 13, Charlie Warzel, “Mike Bloomberg Is Hacking Your Attention”, in The New York Times

So what, precisely, is the new Trump campaign leadership going to do differently? Is there some brilliant stratagem just waiting to be discovered and executed? ¶ Of course not. They’ll keep pumping out those Facebook ads, which will bombard voters who already support him with endless ragebait.

2020 July 16, Paul Waldman, “Trump reshuffles his campaign. If only he could reshuffle himself.”, in The Washington Post

(Internet, derogatory) Website content which relies on headlines provoking anger or fear in order to increase viewership or interaction.


Instagram-able

en-adj

Instagram-able (comparative more Instagram-able, superlative most Instagram-able)

more Instagram-able (comparative)
most Instagram-able (superlative)

I'd hired a pair of social media assistants whose primary job was to identify Instagram-able outfits and locales, before the influence-aspiring hordes found their way to them and turned them into middle-America clichés.

2020, Janelle Brown, chapter 13, in Pretty Things, New York, N.Y.: Random House, page 169

[P]referred destinations are ‘Instagram-able’ or capable of being photographed in ways that generate likes and follows on Instagram.

2020, Marjorie Kibby, “Instafamous: Social Media Influencers and Australian Beaches”, in Elizabeth Ellison, Donna Lee Brien, editors, Writing the Australian Beach: Local Site, Global Idea, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, →DOI, page 66

This isn't an accident; everything about this cafe is designed to be Instagram-able.

2020, Daniel Priestley, “Sales Follow-through: Proactively Follow Up with Prospects to Maximise the Effectiveness of Your Campaign”, in Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You, 2nd edition, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, part II (The Campaign-driven Enterprise Method: Turning Principles into Strategy), page 227


Instagramable

Instagramable (comparative more Instagramable, superlative most Instagramable)

more Instagramable (comparative)
most Instagramable (superlative)

A centerpiece such as a basket of fruits or a pumpkin vase of flowers would make the dining table look beautiful and Instagramable.

2016 November 23, Rachel Ramirez, “The Ultimate Friendsgiving Guide”, in The Beacon, Portland, Or.: University of Portland, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-02-27

And then there are the chairs. Whimsical, colorful, diverse and tested for both comfort and durability, the wide array of unusual seating options at Changi's T4 are designed to be both inviting and Instagramable.

2017 November 5, Harriet Baskas, “Singapore: ‘World’s best airport’ opens sparkling Instagram-worthy new terminal”, in USA Today, McLean, Va.: Gannett Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-03-05

Retailers are also taking a page out of this playbook by creating shopping experiences with Instagramable moments, including photo booths, branded mirrors and neon signs.

2018 October 10, Kaya Yurieff, “Restaurants Rise to Fame over Instagramable Food”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 2019-11-12

[A]n ‘Instagram-worthy experience’ or ‘Instagramable’, meaning that the pictures of the food have to be good enough to be posted on Instagram. In this way, customers satisfy their need for an ‘Instagrammable’ moment.

2019, Sherazade Aissa, “Digitalization in the Restaurant Sector – The French Exception?”, in Jessica Lichy, editor, The Driving Trends of International Business in the 21st Century, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, page 147


ancom

ancom (comparative more ancom, superlative most ancom)

more ancom (comparative)
most ancom (superlative)

(politics, economics, chiefly Internet) Clipping of anarcho-communist.


ancom

en-noun

ancom (countable and uncountable, plural ancoms)

(politics, economics, chiefly Internet, countable) Clipping of anarcho-communist.

(politics, economics, chiefly Internet, uncountable) Clipping of anarcho-communism.


stream sniper

(video games, Internet) someone who engages in stream sniping


Xbot

(slang, derogatory, video games) A slavish supporter of the Xbox range of video game consoles; an Xbox fanboy


floppyful

The manual reveals that the video commands of DOS's MODE are useless; in their stead the manufacturer has supplied a floppyful of software.

1986 February 25, Stephen Manes, “Fritter: The Ever-present Enemy”, in PC Magazine, volume 5, number 4, →ISSN, page 93

(computing, rare) The amount (of data) that a floppy disk can hold.


Brazilian aardvark

Brazilian aardvark (plural Brazilian aardvarks)

/bɹəˌzɪljən ˈɑɹdvɑɹk/

/bɹəˌzɪljən ˈɑːdvɑːk/

The name was picked up following its insertion into Wikipedia in July 2008 by Dylan Breves as a joke. The hoax was uncovered in 2014, but some use of the name has continued.

Specializing mostly in birds, pheasants and ducks, they also have a few donkeys, snakes, porcupines and a group of animals: Brazilian aardvarks, Mexican tejon, hog-nosed coons, pistoes and snookum bears, which are cousins of the racoon.

2010 April 20, Randy Burns, “Scape Ore Farms' menagerie becoming an attraction”, in The Item, volume 115, number 157, page A4

If they receive government approval, the species they'll be working with would include the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus); jaguar (Panthera onca); black lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus); bush dog (Speothos venaticus); Brazilian aardvark, also known locally as coati (Nasua nasua); collared anteater (Tamandua tetradactyla); gray brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira); and bison (Bison bison).

2012 November 14, John R. Platt, “Brazil Plans to Clone Its Endangered Species”, in Scientific American, quoted in print in Phillips, published 2020

2013 February 20, "Brazilian aardvark on the loose in Marlow" (headline, when a coati escaped; article by James Nadal), in Bucks Free Press (Buckinghamshire, UK); quoted in print in Phillips (2020, →ISBN)

[…] A Brazilian aardvark, pictured enoying a snack in Tulum, Mexico.

2020, Tom Phillips, Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t, Harlequin


CUPS

(software) Acronym of Common Unix Printing System. (a subsystem for using printers, found across many Unix and Unix-like operating systems)


bufferize

en-verb

bufferize (third-person singular simple present bufferizes, present participle bufferizing, simple past and past participle bufferized)

bufferizes (present singular third-person)
bufferizing (participle present)
bufferized (participle past)
bufferized (past)

(transitive, computing, nonstandard) To buffer; to store in a buffer.


scrolljacking

Blend of scroll + hijacking, perhaps also modelled on clickjacking.

(web development, somewhat derogatory) Controlling scrolling animation (using custom JavaScript) instead of relegating scrolling behavior to the web browser.


image matting

(machine learning) Extraction of an object in the foreground of an image from its background.


desnow

desnow (third-person singular simple present desnows, present participle desnowing, simple past and past participle desnowed)

desnows (present singular third-person)
desnowing (participle present)
desnowed (participle past)
desnowed (past)

(transitive, computer graphics) To remove the snow from (an image).


desnowing

(computer graphics) The removal of snow from an image or video.


ripple carry

(computing theory) The situation where a logic circuit uses multiple full adders to add n-bit numbers, with each full adder taking the output of the previous one as an input.


tickless

a tickless kernel; a tickless scheduler

(computing) Having interrupts occur only when required, rather than at regular intervals.


runahead

(computing) The speculative execution of code that may or may not be required to execute, so that the results are available in advance if that branch is in fact subsequently taken.


Wikipedist

From Wikipedia + -ist, likely by analogy with encyclopedist.

It has of course the brilliant let-out that it does not seek to prove that its statements are true, but only that they are “verifiable”. This principle is relatively weak: Wikipedists are supposed to be able to source their remarks.

2007, Richard D. North, “Scrap the BBC!”: Ten Years to Set Broadcasters Free, London: Social Affairs Unit, page 141

(Wikimedia jargon, rare) A Wikipedian (person who contributes to Wikipedia).


astonisher

1874, The American Observer, New Series, Volume 1, “Rejoinder,” p. 525,
“ […] Nothing whatever” ! (the italics are “S. S. C.’s,” the “astonisher” is mine.)

1947, Stewart Holbrook, The Story of American Railroads, American Legacy Press, 1981, Chapter 39, p. 443,
More often than not these prophets […] belong to the oh-the-wonder-of-it-all school, who point to the sky as the new and sole artery of travel and transportation and marvel, in complete awe—which they indicate by running over with astonishers!—at the thought of monstrous planes hauling the freight and passengers of the nation, even of the world.

1984, Richard Hauer Costa, “The Grisly Graphics of Malcolm Lowry” in Gordon Bowker and Paul Tiessen (eds.), Proceedings of the London Conference on Malcolm Lowry, Goldsmith’s College, University of London and The Malcolm Lowry Review, Wilfrid Laurier University, p. 100,
An ad for a boxing match can symbolize the uncommunicable, with its curious shape-of-the-type configurations—¡BOX!, with the ‘astonisher’ written upside down before the word and right side up after.

(typography, printing, computing, chiefly US) An exclamation mark, the punctuation mark “!”.


EverCrack

An allusion to the addictiveness of crack cocaine.

(video games, slang, humorous) The massively multiplayer online role-playing game EverQuest.


Warcrack

Blend of warcraft + crack, in allusion to the addictiveness of crack cocaine.

(video games, slang, humorous) The massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.


RDMer

(video games) A person who engages in RDMing.


office automation

en-noun

office automation (countable and uncountable, plural office automations)

The varied computer machinery and software used to digitally create, collect, store, manipulate, and relay office information needed for accomplishing basic tasks.


KDR

KDR (countable and uncountable, plural KDRs)

kill-to-death ratio
kill-to-death ratio#English

(video games) Abbreviation of kill-to-death ratio.


kill/death ratio

kill-death ratio (countable and uncountable, plural death ratios)

kill-death ratio (canonical)
death ratios (plural)

NFL fans know that San Francisco 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman can lock down an opposing team's top receiver and play at the game's highest level. ¶ But what about his kill-death ratio in Call of Duty: Warzone?

2020 April 18, Chris Bumbaca, “Pro Call of Duty players team up with celebs, go from big stage back to where they started”, in USA Today

(video games) Alternative form of kill-to-death ratio.


idek

(text messaging, Internet, slang) Abbreviation of I don't even know.


Sattolo's algorithm

Fisher-Yates shuffle
Fisher-Yates shuffle

(computing) A variant of the Fisher-Yates shuffle that generates uniformly distributed cycles of some maximal length n, rather than permutations of the entire sequence.


state diagram

(computer science) A diagram showing the states of a system and their interactions.


autoassociation

(computing) The condition of being autoassociative


glycoinformatics

(biochemistry, computing) The bioinformatics of sugars


glycoinformatic

(biochemistry, computing) Relating to glycoinformatics


block-scoped

en-adj

block-scoped (comparative more block-scoped, superlative most block-scoped)

more block-scoped (comparative)
most block-scoped (superlative)

(programming) whose scope is limited to a block


TDZ

temporal dead zone
temporal dead zone#English

(programming) Initialism of temporal dead zone.


temporal dead zone

en-noun

temporal dead zone (plural temporal dead zones)

(programming) In JavaScript, the lines of code preceding the declaration of a variable.


hotpath

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) Part of a program in which efficiency is very important.


theozyme

(computing, biochemistry) A theoretical enzyme constructed mathematically


router on a stick

router on a stick (plural routers on sticks)

So called because it uses the same physical link to send and receive traffic to and from different VLANs.

one-armed router
one-armed router#English


numerical integration

numerical integration (countable and uncountable, plural numerical integrations)

(mathematics, computing) The study of numerical analysis algorithms to obtain approximate values of definite integrals.

numerical integration
simple:numerical integration


numerical linear algebra

(computing) The study of numerical analysis algorithms to solve mathematical problems in the field of linear algebra.

numerical linear algebra
simple:numerical linear algebra


algebraic graph theory

algebraic graph theory (countable and uncountable, plural algebraic graph theories)

The three main branches of algebraic graph theory involve the use of linear algebra, the use of group theory and the study of graph invariants.

The last section introduces elementary algebraic graph theory which is then applied to electrical networks.

1979, Béla Bollobás, Graph Theory: An Introductory Course, Springer, page 26

Several famous results in algebraic graph theory, including one of the oldest, are formulae for the numbers of spanning trees of certain graphs.

1993, Norman Biggs, Algebraic Graph Theory, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 38

Graphs with diameter d and girth 2d#x2B;1 are known as Moore graphs. They were introduced by Hoffman and Singleton in a paper that can be viewed as one of the prime sources of algebraic graph theory.

2013, Chris Godsil, Gordon F. Royle, Algebraic Graph Theory, Springer, page 77

(uncountable, mathematics, graph theory) The subbranch of graph theory in which algebraic methods are applied to problems about graphs.


screen tearing

(computing) A phenomenon where the image on a screen appears to horizontally "tear" in two due to lack of synchronization between the video feed and the display's refresh rate.


computational fluid dynamics

computational fluid dynamics (uncountable)

(computing, mechanics) The study of computational algorithms to solve mathematical problems in the field of fluid dynamics.


tupelize

en-verb

tupelize (third-person singular simple present tupelizes, present participle tupelizing, simple past and past participle tupelized)

tupelizes (present singular third-person)
tupelizing (participle present)
tupelized (participle past)
tupelized (past)


camfecting

(computer security, Internet) The process of hacking (or attempting to hack) a webcam for illegal purposes, such as voyeurism.


carry-in

A simpler scheme is to connect the carry-ins and carry-outs of the units in a ripple chain. This approach is most common in chip design because the wiring for the carry-lookahead tree is hard to design and area-consuming.

2004, Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design

(computing) A command that adds a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) to an accumulator for the current digit in an addition operation.


thirst trap

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-thirst trap.wav

If you are successful, the person you are targeting will be tempted to comment. Might even actually comment. Might even “slide into your DMs.” If so, you have pulled off your very own thirst trap.

2017 December 21, Valeriya Safronova, “Instagram Is Now a Dating Platform, Too. Here’s How It Works.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Posting a thirst trap is a great way to rake in a lot of likes on a photo. But as many Instagrammers have found, it’s also a great way to try and get out the vote.

2018 November 6, Taylor Lorenz, “The Voting-Sticker Thirst Trap Is Here”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 2023-01-13

In the lockdown era, however, thirst traps and nudes are not only making a glorious, unrepentant comeback, but are now a form of emboldened agency in Gen Z’s blossoming sexual liberation.

2020 April 20, Ciara Gaffney, “Sex during lockdown: are we witnessing a cybersexual revolution?”, in The Guardian

“Me. You can't put up a thirst trap with someone else in the background.” “Thirst trap?” Pen reached over and scooped the phone out of my hand. “A sexy selfie. You catch someone's eye and make them salivate over how hot you are.”

2021, Tagan Shepard, Swipe Right, Bella Books

You won't have to post thirst-trap selfies or passive-aggressive quotes on social media to get his attention.

2021, Mandy Hale, Don't Believe the Swipe: Finding Love without Losing Yourself, Baker Books

(Internet slang) A sexually suggestive selfie posted on social media in order to fish for compliments or arouse thirst (sexual lust).


hidden gem

You get a bonus in this game if you find the five hidden gems.

(video games) A hidden item for a player to find.


JPEGged

en-adj

JPEGged (comparative more JPEGged, superlative most JPEGged)

more JPEGged (comparative)
most JPEGged (superlative)

(computer graphics, of an image) lossily compressed so that much of the quality has been lost.


hardware-accelerated

hardware-accelerated video decoding

hardware acceleration
hardware acceleration

(computing) Done using hardware acceleration.


hardware acceleration

(computing) Usage of dedicated hardware to perform a task, rather than relying on equivalent software, as it will be more performant.

аппара́тное ускоре́ние

usage of dedicated hardware to perform a task, rather than relying on equivalent software


Warnock algorithm

(computer graphics) An algorithm that solves the problem of rendering a complicated image by recursive subdivision of a scene until areas are obtained that are trivial to compute.


YB

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of yottabyte.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of yobibyte.


quote tweet

My most liked post is a quote tweet of the president's Arbor Day greetings in which I insinuated that shrubs should also have a holiday.

After being asked if she was driving, she responded with a quote tweet, saying "omg no!!! It was just my mom. My moms car. I rushed to the scene to be by her side becuz she was alone."

2016 August 4, Sagal Mohammed, “Kris Jenner is treated by paramedics after nasty car crash”, in Glamour, archived from the original on 2020-11-11

I like quote tweets and use them frequently: to tell bad jokes and scream about the news and speak possibly nonexistent small smartphones into existence.

2018 May 2, Claire McNear, “How Quote Tweets Helped Ruin Twitter”, in The Ringer, archived from the original on 2020-11-01

Finally, a quote tweet copies the content of another tweet and allows also to add new content. A quote tweet is sometimes called a re-tweet with a comment. In this work, we simply treat all quote tweets as original tweets since they include additional information/text.

2020, Yasunobu Sumikawa, Adam Jatowt, “Analyzing history-related posts in twitter”, in International Journal on Digital Libraries, →DOI, page 4

(Internet) A retweet posted with additional commentary by the retweeter.


quote tweet

en-verb

quote tweet (third-person singular simple present quote tweets, present participle quote tweeting, simple past and past participle quote tweeted)

quote tweets (present singular third-person)
quote tweeting (participle present)
quote tweeted (participle past)
quote tweeted (past)

I made a nice post about my engagement and grandma quote tweeted it with a link to an essay about compulsory heterosexuality. What did she mean?

Last night, Portland Trail Blazers All Star guard Damian Lillard quote tweeted a tweet from Los Angeles Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma regarding their favorite wrestling moves.

2018 September 26, “Lillard's favorite wrestling moves: Stone Cold Stunner and much more”, in NBC Sports, archived from the original on 2020-11-11

Stormzy quote tweeting me makes me a little bit gassed.

2018, David Giles, Twenty-First Century Celebrity: Fame In Digital Culture, Emerald Insight, →DOI, page 99

On October 26th, Zaxby's Twitter account quote tweeted the Popeye's original quote tweet that spawned the chicken sandwich wars of 2019, repeating the phrase "...y'all ready?"

2020 October 30, Felix Behr, “Zaxby's just announced its entry into the chicken sandwich war”, in Mashed, archived from the original on 2020-11-06

(Internet) To retweet a tweet with additional commentary such as a reaction to or joke about the original post.


Ybit

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of yottabit.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of yobibit.


Zbit

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of zettabit.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of zebibit.


Gbit

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of gigabit.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of gibibit.


Ebit

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of exabit.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of exbibit.


Tbit

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of terabit.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of tebibit.


Pbit

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of petabit.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of pebibit.


MiB/s

The CPUs can calculate 1 000 000 IPS and have an internal data transfer speed of 1000 MiB/s. The NICs can transfer up to 100 MiB/s and have a latency of 0.2 ms.

2012, Koen de Bosschere, Applications, Tools and Techniques on the Road to Exascale Computing, IOS Press, page 459


Mibps

The recent installation of satellite networks and high-capacity cable in the region has helped slow the widening of the relative gap (figure II.4), but the absolute gap nonetheless increased from 8.5 Mibps in 1996 to 10.7 Mibps in 2005 (17.4 Mibps versus 6.7 Mibps).

2010, Information Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations, page 53


Kibps

Ub 1996, an average capacity of 62 kibibits per second (Kibps) per inhabitant was available in the OECD countries, compared to the 13 Kibps available to LAC inhabitants (a difference of 49 Kibps), but by 2006 this difference had grown to 577 Kibps (756 versus 179).

2010, United Nations, Information Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean, page 50


kibps

However, due to the technological constraints, data rates in today's ubiquitous wireless networks range from few kibps in outdoor environments to few Mbps in indoor environments.

2000, Moncef Elaoud, Adaptive Resource Allocation to Enhance the Quality of Service in Wireless Networks, page 65

... including required communication quality ranging from BER = 10⁻⁶ and transmission rate ranging from several kibps to 10 Mbps, must be taken into consideration.

1996, International Conference on Universal Personal Communications, page 229


MiBps

You can add 100 MiBps increments of peak data throughput up to your system's hardware capacity by using FC 5268. [...] Host throughput on TS7700 clusters with 25 increments installed are not constrained at 2500 MiBps.

2017 April 11, IBM TS7700 Release 3.3, IBM Redbooks, pages 219–220

The gp2 volumes have a throughput limit of 128 MiBps - 250 MiBps, depending on volume size.

2020 July 8, Implementing IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud on AWS Version 8.3.1, IBM Redbooks