stubify

en-verb

stubify (third-person singular simple present stubifies, present participle stubifying, simple past and past participle stubified)

stubifies (present singular third-person)
stubifying (participle present)
stubified (participle past)
stubified (past)

(transitive, computing) To make something use stubs (placeholder procedures).


coreachable

Further, non coreachable nodes are qualified as forbidden. The loop terminates when all forbidden markings (those initially declared and those newly identified) are processed.

2013, Marcello La Rosa, Pnina Soffer, Business Process Management Workshops: BPM 2012 International Workshops, Tallinn, Estonia, September 3, 2012, Revised Papers, page 118

Two cycles are coreachable if there exists a path from any of them to the other one.

2018, Cezar Câmpeanu, Implementation and Application of Automata: 23rd International Conference, CIAA 2018, Charlottetown, PE, Canada, July 30 – August 2, 2018, Proceedings, page 77

(graph theory) Mutually reachable, that is, for any two nodes n1 and n2, they are coreachable iff n1 is reachable from n2 and n2 is reachable from n1.


FemQuis

As a future FemQuisitor I appreciate all awesome artwork and posters that feature our awesome Femquis.

2014 November 6, Rogue_Slayer (@Rogue_Slayer), Twitter

Luckily, I found a Youtube of the scene that exactly mirrors mine (Dalish Femquis, same mix of companions, etc)

2015 April 1, AutographedCat (@autographedcat), Twitter

No kidding. I kept trying to romance Cass as a Femquis on PS4 but forgot about that. Flirting with Harding eased the pain.

2015 September 5, Bubblegumnex (@bubblegumnex), Twitter

(fandom slang, video games) Synonym of Femquisitor.


Hindley-Milner type system

en-noun

Hindley-Milner type system (plural Hindley-Milner type systems)

First described by J. Roger Hindley and later rediscovered by Robin Milner.

parametric polymorphism
parametric polymorphism

(computing theory) A classical type system for the lambda calculus with parametric polymorphism, notable for its completeness and its ability to infer the most general type of a given program without programmer-supplied type annotations or other hints.


hornypost

en-verb

hornypost (third-person singular simple present hornyposts, present participle hornyposting, simple past and past participle hornyposted)

hornyposts (present singular third-person)
hornyposting (participle present)
hornyposted (participle past)
hornyposted (past)

tfw i’ve been doing nothing but hornyposting about my faves for days and literally nothing else [screenshot from the film Black Swan of a character cleaning the word "whore" scrawled in lipstick on a mirror]

grown ass adults hornyposting on facebook makes me so nervous like bro you’re 24 why are you posting about how you like hentai

2019 November 6, meg (@sativagoblin), Twitter

i love logging on in the morning and seeing which of my friends got drunk and hornyposted

2022 July 4, Merle Hazard (@taylorcocke), Twitter

(Internet slang) To make a lustful or sexually explicit post on a social media platform or online discussion forum.


hackusation

2021 November 28, “Dr Disrespect Is Worried About 'Hackusations' Invading Halo Infinite”, in GameRant:

2022 March 26, “ZLaner slams “delusional” Warzone fans still making hackusations against streamers”, in Dexerto:

(video games) An accusation against another player of hacking (cheating).


.ovl

en-noun

.ovl (countable and uncountable, plural .ovls or .ovl's or .ovl)

.ovls (plural)
.ovl's (plural)
.ovl (plural)

(computing) An overlay file. From the extension for an overlay file. A file used in memory limited systems to overwrite portions of program execution space (code and data) to enable other operations; such as found in 8-/10-/12-/16-bit systems.


inpaint

en-verb

inpaint (third-person singular simple present inpaints, present participle inpainting, simple past and past participle inpainted)

inpaints (present singular third-person)
inpainting (participle present)
inpainted (participle past)
inpainted (past)

The philosophy behind Bayesian inpainting is quite simple and intuitive (see Figure 1): the way we human inpainters inpaint an incomplete picture mostly relies on two factors— […]

2012, Tony F. Chan, Yunqing Huang, Tao Tang, Recent Progress in Computational and Applied PDES, page 75

To reconstruct missing or damaged portions of images by interpolation of surrounding areas.


metachannel

Bayeux contains three types of channels: metachannels, service, and normal channels. Metachannels are created by the Bayeux server. Metachannels give information about events, such as handshake errors, connection, disconnection, and reconnection.

2010, Oswald Campesato, Kevin Nilson, Web 2.0 Fundamentals, page 572

The cipher_ID and digest_ID are the OpenSSL cipher and digest types—Blowfish and SHA1 by default—that this node will use for the data channel and also to encrypt the metachannel.

2015, Jon C. Snader, VPNs Illustrated: Tunnels, VPNs, and IPsec, pages 8–25

(computing) A transmission channel used for event notifications rather than actual data.


MUFFIN

MUFFIN (third-person singular simple present MUFFINs, present participle MUFFINing, simple past and past participle MUFFINed)

MUFFINs (present singular third-person)
MUFFINing (participle present)
MUFFINed (participle past)
MUFFINed (past)

After the MUFFIN program written by Rich Williams at Apple, supposed to be an acronym of move utility for files in NewDOS.

acronym

Remember, MUFFINing a diskette won't harm your 13 sector diskette, and you can always boot 13 sector diskettes using BASICS.

1980, Apple II, the DOS Manual: Disk Operating System

This presents no problem other than, of course, any 13 sector CCA files having to be MUFFINed to 16 sectors.

1981, The Book of Apple Computer Software, The Book Company, page 93

This does not apply to normal programs; they can be MUFFINed over and used with no trouble.

1981 May, John Sharp, “DOS Differences”, in HARDCORE - The Journal of the British Apple Systems User Group, volume 1, number 3, page 17

The software is supplied in DOS 3.2.1 format, and I had no problem in MUFFINing it to DOS 3.3 format.

Must be MUFFINed to a DOS 3.3 disk before use.

It will run on a 48K APPLE 11+, after BRUNning Integer Basic-Disk from WAP Library disk 14 (which should be MUFFINed over to the DOS 3.3. disk on which this One-Oven program, as well as MUFFIN from your Master disk, have also been saved).

1982 November, George V. Kinal, “"One Oven Muffin" Updated”, in Washington Apple Pi, volume 4, number 11, page 44

And LexiCom 2.0 requires no disk swapping or MUFFINing—it will work equally well with any version of Apple DOS.[…]Files may be MUFFINed to a 16 sector disk $29.95 from your local dealer or: Nibble, Dept P

Because the system’s disk is unprotected (praise the provider!), the programs can be converted (MUFFINed) to DOS 3.3 after INITing a target disk with the HELLO boot program.

1983, Jeffrey Stanton, Robert P. Wells, Sandra Rochowansky, editors, The Addison-Wesley Book of Apple Computer Software 1983, The Book Company, page 175

(computing, transitive) To transfer files between 13-sector and 16-sector Apple II diskettes, as with MUFFIN (Move Utility For Files In NewDOS.)


stunning and brave

en-adj

stunning and brave (comparative more stunning and brave, superlative most stunning and brave)

more stunning and brave (comparative)
most stunning and brave (superlative)

From "Stunning and Brave", an episode of South Park that satirizes social justice activists and political correctness.

Take the case of [...] a fifty-two-year-old transgender woman who raped two women before being sent to jail […] Stunning and brave!

2020 July 21, Rob Smith, Always a Soldier: Service, Sacrifice, and Coming Out as America’s Favorite Black, Gay Republican, Post Hill Press

Live your truth. Be like one of these stunning and brave heroes of oppression: HEROES. OF. OPPRESSION. Your heart will bleed for each of these brave lads and lasses—not to mention lxsses—who suffer at the hands of the patriarchy.

2021 November 2, Babylon Bee, The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness, Simon and Schuster, page 13

The exact same rule applies to US President Joe Biden, who is forever exempt from such allegations. It doesn't matter that black people aren't the property of the left, nor does it matter that they can vote for whoever they choose in a free country, he was absolutely justified when he said, 'If you are African American and you vote for Donald Trump you ain't black.' Stunning and brave.

2022, Konstantin Kisin, An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West, Little, Brown and Company

(Internet slang, derogatory, sarcastic) Used to express disrespect, in particular to suggest someone (especially a transgender person) or something has been promoted as good but is actually bad.


Party A

(cryptography) Synonym of Alice (“placeholder”)


Party B

(cryptography) Synonym of Bob (“placeholder”)


Usenetite

I'm not a enough of a Usenetite to know how to make these things happen, and I'm not interested in investing any signifigant time in it, but perhaps some of the "old time" a.c.h.h'ers could get it done.

1995 March 8, Mike Inman, “That's it -- I'm building my own PC!.”, in alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt (Usenet)

Oh, incidentally, the Usenetite known as Sir Launcelot du Lak (who posts occasionally on csipg.rpg) wrote a review of the first two CD's for Game Bytes magazine a couple of years ago. The review is still available online, if you're interested.

1996 November 5, Robert S. Gregg, “LADY WHISPER, HELP!!!!”, in rec.games.computer.ultima-dragons (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-11

Yes folks, I have a CD copy of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer soundtrack. It wasn't easy to get either -- I had to part with six whole dollars for it. A harsh sacrifice, to be sure, but worth it, for now I have one more elusive Matthew Sweet non-album track available at my fingertips. "Huh?" I hear you all saying, "Matthew Sweet's never been on BtVS -- have you been dipping into grandpa's old cough remedy again?" Not so, good Usenetites, for you see, it's the movie soundtrack I have, not the upcoming TV soundtrack. It's all a big joke; deal.

1999 January 2, Aaron S. Veenstra, “I have the soundtrack!!!”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-11

Well, that's where my Rule #3 applies (I'm formulating them officially now, for the benefit of my following, to make them easier to quote later): Usenetites, Entertain Thyselves.

1999 July 28, Fabulana, “Intellectual Honesty”, in alt.anger (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-11

Thanx for your continued support, all you USENETites are great to do business with!

1999 November 19, Sffbclub, “!! *** Announcing: The Science Fact & Fiction Bookclub *** !!!”, in rec.games.trading-cards.marketplace.magic.auctions (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-11

Hey usenetites, I posted up pics of Steph from Raw. Click below for them.
http://www.crosswinds.net/~pwpix/wow

2001 September 11, Daniel Pena, “Pics of Steph From Raw (HERE)”, in alt.pro-wrestling.wwf (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-11

People are still getting over Christmas, and will no doubt require a period of recuperation after the next great festival of Hic!.
Then Usenetites will begin to emerge from hibernation or whatever. This is a very quiet period on all the groups I collect.

2005 December 30, Rusty Hinge 2, “RFD: create unmoderated newsgroup uk.tech.heating”, in uk.net.news.config (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-11

Hey Usenetites!
I have a horrible Python program to allow two people to chat with each other. It has horribly any functionality, but it is meant for the public to work on, not necessarily me. Anyways, here's a quick FAQ.

2013 April 5, Hunter D, “im.py: a python communications tool”, in comp.lang.python (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-11


Donbabwe

Portmanteau of Ukrainian Донецьк (Donecʹk) or Russian Донецк (Doneck) + Zimbabwe, meant to suggest underdevelopment, poverty, and endemic corruption. Alternatively borrowed directly from either Russian Донба́бве (Donbábve) or Ukrainian Донба́бве (Donbábve).

Coordinate term: Luganda

Donetsk People's Republic
Donetsk People's Republic

(derogatory, humorous, Internet) Donetsk, in particular the mostly unrecognised Donetsk People's Republic.

A similar pattern was reserved for Donbass in the abusive name "Donbabwe" which comprises "Donbass" and "Zimbabwe".

2019, Lorella Viola, Andreas Musolff, Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis, Chapter 11, page 285

(derogatory, humorous, Internet) Donbass


jump point search

(computing theory) An optimization to the A* search algorithm for uniform-cost grids.


precopy

en-verb

precopy (third-person singular simple present precopies, present participle precopying, simple past and past participle precopied)

precopies (present singular third-person)
precopying (participle present)
precopied (participle past)
precopied (past)

However, in a true cloud computing environment, you don't know which other physical server the VM will be moved to, and therefore you don't know where to precopy the data.

2015, James Bond, The Enterprise Cloud: Best Practices for Transforming Legacy IT, page 75

(transitive, computing) To copy in advance.


surprised Pikachu

en-noun

surprised Pikachu (plural surprised Pikachus)

Some of Broncos Country is left fuming over a start so poor that it is the only team in franchise history that has been this inept, but the rest of us are wearing the surprised Pikachu face.

2019 October 2, James Burky, “Fangio not at fault for foul start to season”, in The Metropolitan, MSU Denver, page 8

Then without saying so much as a goodbye to Laurie or Steve, who has just arrived at the scene with a surprised-Pikachu look on his face, Will marches toward the exit.

2020, Isla Chiu, Ringing in the Lunar New Year, unnumbered page

"I don't choose my monsters based on how cute they are, you know."
"You don't?! Really?"

2022, Yuu Tanaka, translated by Yuko C. Shimomoto, A Late-Start Tamer’s Laid-Back Life: Volume 3, unnumbered page

(Internet slang) Synonym of shocked Pikachu.


anonymous function

anonymous function (plural anonymous functions)

(programming) Synonym of lambda function


Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

en-proper noun

Leopards Eating People's Faces Party or the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

Leopards Eating People's Faces Party (canonical)

From an October 2015 tweet by Adrian Bott (@cavalorn) that went viral: "I never thought leopards would eat MY face," sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

'I didn't want leopards to eat ANYONE'S face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

2018 November 20, James Chalmers (@ProfChalmers), Twitter

Top officials of Leopards Eating People's Faces party, having presented leopard w/ options including face-eating, are flabbergasted that the leopard would eat their face

2020 January 4, Dana Stevens (@thehighsign), Twitter

entire front bench of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party tendering their solemn and sincere resignations because they can no longer support a PM so shockingly in favour, as it turns out, of leopards eating people's faces

2022 July 6, THE...Sodomite Hal Duncan!! (@Hal_Duncan), Twitter

(Internet slang, sarcastic, politics) A notional political party supported by people who believe its cruel, unjust, or extreme policies and rhetoric will only harm other people, and are then shocked or displeased when these policies and rhetoric have adverse consequences to themselves.


LOLBin

Several LOLBins have extensive control and authority on a computer. For example, PowerShell has full access to the core OS of a Windows computer, so it can undermine existing security features.

2021, Mark Ciampa, CompTIA Security + Guide to Network Security Fundamentals, page 72

(computer security) An executable that is deployed as part of a system but may be co-opted by an attacker to perform harmful actions.


Leopards Eating Faces Party

the Leopards Eating Faces Party (canonical)

Always a rush when Members of Parliament for the Leopards Eating Faces Party suddenly discover the horror of faces eaten by leopards.

2019 August 19, Ally Fogg (@AllyFogg), Twitter

I never thought Leopards would eat *my* face, sobs broadcaster who mortgaged its integrity for the Leopards Eating Faces Party.

2019 December 15, Andrew James Carter (@Carter_AndrewJ), Twitter

"I never thought the leopards would *actually* eat people's faces," sobs centrist politician who didn't really become concerned when the Leopards Eating Faces Party started gaining power.

2022 June 24, Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous), Twitter

Leopards Eating People's Faces Party#English

(Internet slang, sarcastic) Alternative form of Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.


ma'am, this is an Arby's

sir, this is an Arby's
sir, this is an Arby's#English

(Internet slang) Alternative form of sir, this is an Arby's.


ma'am, this is a Wendy's

I simply could not imagine going about my day in this heightened-reality femme fever dream of an outfit without at least a few well-meaning people stopping to inform me that, "Ma'am, this is a Wendy's."

2021 July 3, Jess Joho, “That viral Selkie puff dress only works for the Instagram fantasy world”, in Mashable


and then everyone on the bus clapped

"....and then everyone on the bus clapped"
This story reeks of being only very loosely based on a real event and every character in it kind of has the same voice.

2017 November 26, Aurora Borealis (@RebelMechaniker), Twitter

And then everyone on the bus clapped! That's a very nice anecdote that has zero basis in reality.

2020 January 1, Tom-A062 (@Tom_A062), Twitter

And then everyone on the bus clapped.
Yeah this didn't happen.

2022 April 2, Bugpope (@PopeBug), Twitter

(Internet slang) Used to refute or express doubt of the veracity of an anecdote.


briefcase computer

en-noun

briefcase computer (plural briefcase computers)


rec.gamer

Hello, fellow rec.gamers !
I tried subscribing to the Forgotten Realms mailing list using the contact information that appeared in the FAQ of rec.g.frp.announce conf, but without success.

1992 November 20, a...@ax.apc.org, “Needed : Forgotten Realms Material”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-16

Hey there all you rec.gamers :) if anyone out there has a move sheet for godzilla vs. PLEASE post it, or better yet, mail it to me :)

1994 December 26, Ben, “REQ: move list for Godzilla Vs.”, in rec.games.video.nintendo (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-16

This reminds me of last years post gathering debate about whether or not the Lions should have been flanged. Same essential argument then, was flanging the Lions and saving their Gathering worth irritating the rest of us with the flange? Of course Bruce went on to turn them round into a shit-kicking faction, obviously just to spite all us rec.gamers who voted to close them down. :)

1997 September 18, Mr M.I. Pennington, “[Gathering] Making a killing at the Gathering...”, in rec.games.frp.live-action (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-16

Hello Rec Gamers,
I am in need of a Star Trek: The Next Generation instruction card. Anyone have one to spare? Or can anyone tell me how to format Mr. Stambaugh's STTNG card.gif so that it would be regular size when printed from netscape?

2000 February 15, Mike, “WANTED: STTNG instruction card”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-16

Thanks to GOCATGO and others who pointed me in the right direction. Game plays perfect now - open invitation to any Rec-Gamer who wants to stop by and play - it's an addictive game.

2007 July 29, stlouispinball, “EM Tech: Game Start-up on Williams Teachers Pet”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-16

Have Pin I need picked up, if anyone has the ability and room. WIll discuss payment if it fits in your schedule. Rather give it to a Rec Gamer than NAVL. Thanks!

2007 September 19, flex0...@gmail.com, “Anybody Coming from Kansas to Central Ohio in a week or so?”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-16

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup rec.games.


cyclomatic complexity

cyclomatic complexity (countable and uncountable, plural cyclomatic complexities)

Cyclomatic complexity to us seems to be more of a problem when maintaining and testing code, rather than when originally writing it. As the cyclomatic complexity increases, the difficulty of fixing the code increases.

2006, Linda M. Laird, M. Carol Brennan, Software Measurement and Estimation: A Practical Approach, John Wiley & Sons, page 61

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) A quantitative measure of the number of linearly independent paths (branches) through a program's source code which indicates the complexity of a program or a function.


Derpina

The name of a character portrayed in rage comics; from Derp + -ina.

It makes that Derpina you dated in 6th grade for two weeks the hottest girl in school.

2012 April 13, Brian Westfall, “Brian’s Trinity: The three bands that aren’t as terrible as you remember”, in Trinitonian, volume 109, number 25, San Antonio, Tex., page 21

“I’m not even talking to you so how can I be irritating you?” Adriana said. “Because you’re a total derpina,” Chloe said.

2013 May, Bruce Kimmel, Murder at the School Musical, AuthorHouse, page 142

One such sketch focuses on Derpina, Bouzebal’s female friend, and her difficulties in succeeding in the Baccalaureate (see Figure 3.2).

2014 March, Linda Herrera, editor, Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East, Routledge

Derpina: Guys, can someone send me ₱10 of load? It’s an emergency! / Derp: Here, you can use my phone. What’s wrong?

2014 November, “Slangtionary”, in The Spectrum, volume 59, number 4, page 24

(slang) A female placeholder name, the female equivalent of Derp, perhaps indicating derpiness.


M$FT

From MSFT, Microsoft's Nasdaq symbol, with a dollar sign added to denote greed or wealth.

Item: Intel is thinking (planning) on moving from x86 architecture (CISC) to new RISC architecture. M$FT legacy apps would be broken (Win32 APIs).

1997 April 13, Steve Cordova, “I hope no one from M$FT is reading this”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-17

As it stands M$FT has a combination of deep pockets and compelling apps for the "ordinary" consumer than Linux has. It's not enough to say, "Linux can also read your MSFT word documents." Just look at how far that got the Mac.

2002 March 11, Joe Chung, “Does anyone in the Bay Area use Linux?”, in ba.general (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-17

2002 July 26, Peter Leftwich, “Peter heads back to M$FT WinBloze”, in lucky.freebsd.questions (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-17:

BusinessWeek Online had a good article about H1 Visas and software engineers. But M$FT only takes good people. So stay unemployed U lozers.

2007 October 13, raylopez99, “M$FT hiring--but they need competent people. COMPETENT”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-17

Why M$FT offers a "repair" option that requires even more high level repair is beyond me.

2008 July 26, SnoopDoggy, “M$FT to Copy Apple "Experience"”, in alt.music.rush (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-17


clock rate

clock rate (countable and uncountable, plural clock rates)


clock cycle

(computing) The time between two adjacent pulses of the oscillator that regulates the tempo of the computer processor.


clock signal

(computing) A signal that oscillates between a high and a low state and is used like a metronome to coordinate actions of digital circuits.

takto

signal that oscillates between high and low state


multislave

Coordinate term: multimaster

SPI supports both multimaster and multislave environments.

2009, Jean J. Labrosse, Jack Ganssle, Robert Oshana, Embedded Software, page 447

(computing) Relating to more than one slave.


multimaster

Coordinate term: multislave

The multimaster model makes the replica and partition terminology much harder to distinguish, […]

2003, Brian Arkills, LDAP Directories Explained: An Introduction and Analysis, page 143

(computing) Relating to more than one master.


SICP

The only trouble with SICP is that it was written for MIT students, all of whom love science and are quite comfortable with formal mathematics.

1999, Brian Harvey, Matthew Wright, Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science, MIT Press, page xxi

w:Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

(computer science) Initialism of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.


RP walk

en-verb

RP walk (third-person singular simple present RP walks, present participle RP walking, simple past and past participle RP walked)

RP walks (present singular third-person)
RP walking (participle present)
RP walked (participle past)
RP walked (past)

(video games) To make the character one's playing walk, as opposed to running, which is the default form of character movement in most video games.


KLV

en-noun

KLV (countable and uncountable, plural KLVs)

(computing) Abbreviation of key-length-value encoding.


flop era

From the practice of ironically referring to a life phase as an era on the social media platform TikTok (compare Fleabag era).

Hi Professor, I was just wondering if it is possible to get an extension on the assignment? I'm in my flop era. Thanks

2020, @teaxtarot, quoted in "Tweets of the Week", Utah Statesman (Utah State University), 2 November 2020, page 8

We're in a collective flop era and there's a gorgeous sense of community in that.

2021, Maddy Black, "Unearthing Your Truth: Astrology Edition", Greater Expectations (University College London), Spring 2021, page 14

Your resolutions: Exit your flop era, resolve all conflicts that riddle your relationships, purchase a disco ball for your bedroom

2022 January, Gillian Maltz, “New Year's Horoscopes”, in The Melange, page 16

(Internet slang) A period marked by failure, lack of success, or the inability to function.


quadball

quadball (countable and uncountable, plural quadballs)

International Quadball Association
J. K. Rowling

From quad- (“four”) + ball or quad + ball. The sport sense was introduced in 2022 by the International Quadball Association, formerly the International Quidditch Association, with quad- chosen in reference to the number of balls and positions in the game. The IQA cited concerns over the trademarked status of Quidditch and a wish to distance itself from the "anti-trans positions" of J. K. Rowling.

When elongating a quadball, is it possible to predetermine the new length? I want to make two squished quadballs, one 2 mm smaller than the other along the long axis.

2016 October 16, maapfel (username), “When elongating a quadball, is it possible to predetermine the new length?”, in Autodesk community

The quadball is one of the most versatile primitives in SWID. It works great for most design scenarios. The only downside to using the quadball is the fact it appears spherical when it really is not, and is therefore visually misleading to some users.

2017 July 21, Shyam Venugopal, “To Globe or to Quadball, that is the Question”, in The SOLIDWORKS Blog

(computer graphics, countable) A rounded cube used to approximate a sphere.


tech debt

tech debt (countable and uncountable, plural tech debts)


Xorg

(computing) Alternative form of X.Org, the standard implementation of X11.


portalization

[…] and an ongoing process of Net "portalization" (the growth of one stop or more aptly, first stop — shopping and search sites such as Yahoo, Excite, MSN, etc.).

2002, Greg Elmer, Critical Perspectives on the Internet, page x

These developments are framed conceptually by the distinctions between platforms and portals and, in turn, the processes of platformization and portalization.

2021, Paul McDonald, Courtney Brannon Donoghue, Timothy Havens, Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines, page 148


FaceTime

Compare face time (“time spent in visual communication with another party”).

Like many people, in the pandemic, my life digitized. My work shifted online; my friendships retreated onto FaceTime and WhatsApp; I used a dating app for the first time; I started doing online yoga.

2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times

A videotelephony software developed by Apple Inc., introduced in 2010.


spritework

(computer graphics) Artwork in the form of sprites.


trustlet

(computing, cryptography) A trusted process or application in certain types of secure system.


hashtaggable

en-adj

hashtaggable (comparative more hashtaggable, superlative most hashtaggable)

more hashtaggable (comparative)
most hashtaggable (superlative)

(Internet) Suitable for use as a hashtag.


FirstName BunchOfNumbers

Firstname Bunchofnumbers
Firstname Bunchofnumbers#English

(Internet slang, derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of Firstname Bunchofnumbers.


Firstname Bunchofnumbers

en-proper noun

Firstname Bunchofnumbers (plural Firstname Bunchofnumberses)

When someone attempts to register a Twitter account name that is already taken, the site suggests the inputted name followed by a long, randomly-generated string of numbers as an alternative (e.g. "@Wiktion74587432" instead of "@Wiktionary"). This has led to many anonymous accounts with handles that consist of a given name and a string of numbers (e.g. "@Jane74587432675").

You can always rely on FirstName BunchOfNumbers to have the worst opinions.

2020 December 11, Chris Hanna (@MegaNerd98), Twitter

Internet protip: if you can't mention the name of something or someone without getting spam bots and Firstname Bunchofnumberses promoting or defending that thing, it's probably not a good thing.

2022 January 9, Klin T. Catgirl (@KlinTCatgirl), Twitter

Got into a debate with Firstname Bunchofnumbers.
I won't be doing that again.

2022 July 26, Russell Hillman (@allhellismrsun), Twitter

(Internet slang, derogatory) A Twitter user suspected to be a troll, sockpuppet, or bot due to having a default-style account name and a history of odd, tendentious, or offensive posts.


red-linked

(Internet, wiki jargon) Marked by a red link (a hyperlink that directs to a nonexistent wiki page).


blue-linked

(Internet, wiki jargon) Marked by a blue link (a hyperlink that directs to an existing wiki page)


BotW

(video games, slang) Initialism of Breath of the Wild, short for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.


Metroidlike

So glad I took the time to check out Hollow Knight. $15 is a steal for this gorgeous gem of a Metroidlike (Metroidvania IF YOU MUST).

2017 March 11, MANvsGAME, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-02

Got this today. The package looks amazing. Lets check this amazing metroidlike
NintendoSwitch #axiomverge #metroidlike

2018 April 18, TheRealPit0, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-02

It's too bad nobody remembers the beautiful, redheaded homage to Samus Aran that was Jenosa Arma from Scurge: Hive (GBA / NDS)

2018 November 2, OhNoItsGlitch, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-05-24

Isometric metroidlike action RPG bounty hunter heroine. She's quite wonderful.

i love games that are roguelikes and soulslikes, but also metroidbornes and soulsbornes and metroidlikes as well as permabornes, bornevanias and roguevanialikes

2018 November 26, warm_blankets, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-02

Gato Roboto is a sharp and clever Metroidlike, you're playing a cat named Kiki, they is suiting a mech, to save Gary ! #NintendoSwitch

2019 December 29, grosguerrier, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-02

metroidvania is a stupid word, castlevania didn't do shit, everything in that genre pulls way more from metroid. anything new sotn brought is barely ever used (also it sux...!!!)
this is my stupid hot take hill i will die on.
also why i passive-aggressively call them metroidlikes

2021 August 6, NotDolphy, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-08-06

Only castelvania games can be metroidvanias. The rest are simply Metroidlikes. Give credit where it's due.
If you use "Roguelike" (named after the game Rogue), you can suck it all the way up and give Samus her credit!

2021 October 29, parkerrsimmons, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-10-29

They're all called Metroidlikes going forward because we're not going to dignify Konami any longer.

2022 February 3, ziggybull, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-02-03


-blr

(Internet) Combined with a noun or adjective to create a word for a specific community of users on the social media platform Tumblr.


Simblr

Simblrs may contain a range of content from downloadable mods, sims, houses, and custom content to stories, gameplay shots, animated GIFs, and personal blog posts.

2015, Ruth A. Deller, "Simblr famous and SimSecret infamous: Performance, community norms, and shaming among fans of The Sims", Transformative Works and Cultures, Number 18 (link)

I'm sure you will be impressed by the content of this Simblr: downloads, pictures, a legacy challenge...

2015 March, “Simblrs”, in Sims Vita, number 2, page 71

I only have a few close friends who know my Simblr, and they haven't spoken to me about it yet […]

2018, Reshaaa, quoted in "Say It Loud", Vibez Sim Magazine, Issue Four (2018), page 22

(fandom slang) A Tumblr blog focused on The Sims.


writeblr

I am super new to the twitter writing community so I know only one other writer which is @girlishnovels and I am obsessed with her writeblr as well omg

2019 April 23, Reva K (@ReyaK3), Twitter

to make a writeblr or to not make a writeblr, that is the question

here's a collection of my unhinged writing from my (inactive) writeblr

(Internet slang) A Tumblr blog focused on creative writing.


prechart

A careful examination of the issue of violating an LSC before its prechart completes raises the following question: why not try to violate all precharts as soon as possible, thus minimizing the set of constraints imposed on the execution.

2012, David Harel, Rami Marelly, Come, Let’s Play: Scenario-Based Programming Using LSCs and the Play-Engine, page 153

(computing) Part of a chart that must be traversed with a successful outcome in order for the main chart to have a successful outcome.


MACH

(programming) Acronym of microservices, API-first, cloud-native, headless.


unacked

(networking) Not having been sent an ACK message (acknowledgement of a packet or a message received from a network).


devlog

French: devlog

(Internet, computing) A log (or blog, vlog, etc.) that updates the audience on the development progress of something, usually a video game, website, or app.


passwordable

(computing) Able to be protected with a password.


Predditor

Blend of predator (“sexual predator”) + Redditor.

blend

(Internet slang, neologism) An online groomer on Reddit; a child predator who frequents Reddit.


undub

en-verb

undub (third-person singular simple present undubs, present participle undubbing, simple past and past participle undubbed)

undubs (present singular third-person)
undubbing (participle present)
undubbed (participle past)
undubbed (past)

(transitive, video games) To unofficially modify (a video game) so as to restore the original spoken audio that had been localized for export, while retaining the translated text of the target language.


undub

(video games) A version of a video game that has been modified in this way.


antiface

A number of experiments have looked at anticaricatures, that is interpolations of the individual face towards the average, and even antifaces, which extrapolate the original face onto the other side of the mean (Blanz et al. 2000).

2005, John G. Clement, Murray K. Marks, Computer-Graphic Facial Reconstruction, page 293

(computing) In facial recognition systems, a face having opposite properties to a given face.


anticaricature

(computing) In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look more like the average face.


Linmodem

Blend of Linux + modem, modelled on Winmodem.

Coordinate term: Winmodem

(computing) A softmodem designed to work with Linux operating systems.


(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age 1.


(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age II.


(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age 3.


MEA

Mass Effect: Andromeda
w:Mass Effect: Andromeda

(fandom slang) Initialism of Mass Effect: Andromeda.


Dragon Age 4
w:Dragon Age: The Veilguard

(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age 4.


Surprisingly, ME3 proves to be a fantastic entry point into the series for new recruits.

2012 April, Adam Mathew, “Mass Effect 3”, in PlayStation Magazine, Australia, page 60

In ME3, they have a deep friendship with hints of possibly more.

2013 June, Francesca Reyes, “Goodnight Shepard”, in Xbox 360 Magazine, page 48

We know that a lot of you PlayStation fans won't have played the first Mass Effect game because of the fact that it didn't originally release on PS3, meaning that there are a whole contingent of Mass Effect players who only ever played ME2 and ME3.

2016, “Mass Effect”, in Play Magazine, number 266, UK, page 82

(fandom slang) Initialism of Mass Effect 3.


Shenko

Finished my Shenko doodle but tumblr is barfing all over me. *kicks tumblr*

2011 July 8, Kia Purity (@kiapurity), Twitter

I don't get some Shenko fans. It's like, yeah Kaidan is my space husbando but I ain't gonna flip shit if you don't like him lmao

2012 December 9, hannah (@floraofmoon), Twitter

I have just read a 500k word Shenko fic that was far better than the game.

2020 February 5, Siân (@alphra_), Twitter

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Commander Shepard and Kaidan Alenko from the video game series Mass Effect.


(fandom slang) Initialism of Mass Effect 4.


[…] and it bores so rarely that ME2 lifts the benchmark for game writing set by the original.

2010 April, Jon Blyth, “Mass Effect 2”, in PC Zone, page 76

Therein lies ME2's greatest hook: real emotional investment.

2011 March, Adam Mathew, “Mass Effect 2”, in PlayStation Magazine, Australia, page 70

The true femmes fatales of the series are the Ardat-Yakshi, and one side quest in ME2 even requires the player to hunt down a serial killer Ardat-Yakshi named Morinth who tries to seduce Shepard and will kill him/her if he/she is unable to resist her.

2023, Sarah Stang, “Desirable and Undesirable Cyborg Bodies in the Mass Effect Video Game Trilogy”, in Julia A. Empey, Russell J. A. Kilbourn, editors, Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond, Bloomsbury Publishing, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107

(fandom slang) Initialism of Mass Effect 2.


Shiara

i'm having so many shiara feelings lately and i don't know why oh my god i love liara so much what a cutie

liara and f!shepard are the best. I love them. I love my Shep and Liara, i love seeing other people's f'sheps and Liara. Shiara is too pure

2016 November 17, Yeehaw Todd (@AfroPrincex), Twitter

Daily reminder that I stan Shiara and that I live and die for them

2021 February 25, Atrast nal Tunsha, salroka (@Illusive_s0ul), Twitter

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Commander Shepard and Liara T'Soni from the video game series Mass Effect.


MERN

Introduction to the MERN Stack In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: The MVC architectural pattern Installing and configuring MongoDB Installing Node.js Installing NPM packages Technical requirements You will be required[…]

2018 May 31, Eddy Wilson, MERN Quick Start Guide: Build web applications with MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 7

“Creating MERN Stack Applications (2020).” DEV Community , https://dev.to/andrewbaisden/creating-mern-stack-applications-20204a44. Accessed 28 Jan. 2021. CSS Tutorial . https://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp. Accessed 28 Jan. 2021.

2021 January 28, Adam Goldfine, Introduction to MERN Web Apps and JavaScript Algorithms, Startup Systems

(web development) Acronym of MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js; a common web application technology stack.


PoE

Power over Ethernet
w:Power over Ethernet

(computing) Initialism of Power over Ethernet.

(video games) Initialism of Path of Exile.


thanks for coming to my TED Talk

Since 2015. The expression draws a parallel between the speaker's speech and the typical format of a TED Talk – an opinionated monologue on a particular topic.

You might be best friends with your designer/developer after this process is over, but you still want to be able to pay the bill and walk away with your property if anything goes wrong. Your designer should want that for you! OK, rant over. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

2021 May 21, Lori Culwell, Funny You Should Ask: How to Make a Website: The 100% Not Boring Guide to Setting Up Your Website With Wordpress (Funny You Should Ask), Get Creative, Inc.

(slang, humorous) Sarcastically or self-deprecatingly said at the end of a wordy and often preachy monologue.


SCRUM

(software engineering) Alternative letter-case form of Scrum


product owner

(software engineering) In the Scrum framework, the manager of the product backlog, responsible for maximizing the value of the product.


Scrum master

Where it cannot do this, the Scrum Master takes over the corresponding task. • The Scrum master is responsible for ensuring that Scrum is understood and used. To do so, he informs both the Scrum team and the organization and builds on[…]

2020 December 29, Markus Marfurt, Pocket guide to the Professional Scrum Master Certification (PSM 1), BoD – Books on Demand, page 34

Because organizations tend to try to implement Scrum without seeing the value of a Scrum Master, often Scrum is blamed for not working. Notice that the Scrum Master is described as a servant first and a leader second, not a manager,[…]

2018 February 13, PMI-ACP Project Management Institute Agile Certified Practitioner Exam Study Guide, John Wiley & Sons, page 29

(software engineering) In the Scrum framework, a facilitator of a developer team, who is accountable for removing impediments to the ability of the team to deliver the product goals and deliverables.


data swamp

(computing, informal) A poorly managed data lake.


one-shot learning

(machine learning) An object categorization problem, mainly in computer vision, involving the classification of objects based on one, or only a few, examples.


few-shot learning

(machine learning) An object categorization problem, mainly in computer vision, involving the classification of objects based on only a few examples.


zero-shot learning

(machine learning) A problem setup in machine learning, where, at test time, a learner observes samples from classes that were not observed during training and attempts to predict the class that they belong to, typically based on auxiliary information.


goofy ahh

en-adj

goofy ahh (comparative goofier ahh, superlative goofiest ahh)

goofier ahh (comparative)
goofiest ahh (superlative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-goofy ahh.wav

Respelling of goofy-ass representing a pronunciation with elision of the final consonant, which can occur in African-American Vernacular English. Compare bih, shii.

Look at this goofy ahh bozo.

Nah ain't no way this goofy ahh bozo just rizzed up that kid.

(Internet slang, African-American Vernacular, humorous) Silly, dumb, foolish.


teachable agent

en-noun

teachable agent (plural teachable agents)

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

An artificial intelligence used at a university that simulates a pupil or learner, to help promote students' understanding of metacognitive skills.


no johns

Coined by Super Smash Bros 64 player Jesse "Zulu" Fuentes in the late 1990s, in reference to his friend John who would often make unconvincing excuses after losing a game.

“No Johns” is such a ubiquitous phrase in the Smash scene that it’s even inspired regional variations around the world. No Stacos. No Tiesos. No Joshis. Igna Yunas, in Swedish. It even made it into Smash itself: One of the “random” names that players can assign themselves in the Wii U and Switch versions of the fighting game is NOJOHNS.

2019 September 16, Cecilia D'Anastasio, “How A High School Smash Bros. Joke Became A World-Famous Saying”, in Kotaku

(slang, video games, Super Smash Bros) No excuses (after losing a game).


doorway page

(Internet) A web page that deliberately manipulates search engines through the use of irrelevant terms that will attract visitors, who are then redirected to another page.


PWOMS

(text messaging, Internet) Initialism of parents watching over my shoulder.


carrier hotel

(networking) A colocation facility for retail customers.


meet-me room

(Internet, telecommunications) A place within a co-location centre where telecommunications companies can physically connect to one another and exchange data without incurring local loop fees.


SFN

(computing) Initialism of short filename.


short filename

(computing, chiefly MS/PC-DOS and Microsoft Windows) An 8.3 filename.


Deutsch limit

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Deutsch limit.wav

Named after computer programmer L. Peter Deutsch (1946–).

named-after

visual programming language
visual programming language

(programming) The generally accepted limit, in working with visual programming languages, of 50 or less visual primitives on screen at any given time, used to optimize for information density.


long filename

(computing, chiefly Microsoft Windows) A filename where the filename itself, the file extension, or both, are longer than that possible with an 8.3 filename.


Conway's law

Named after computer programmer Melvin Conway, who introduced the idea in 1967.

Recognizing Conway's Law¶ In the last several years, Mel Conway's 1967 paper “How Do Committees Invent?” has become an almost required topic in presentations about microservices as well as APIs in general.

2021, Mehdi Medjaoui, Erik Wilde, Ronnie Mitra, Mike Amundsen, Continuous API Management, O'Reilly

(computing) An adage that states that organizations design computer systems that mirror their own communication structure.


mTLS

(Internet) Initialism of mutual Transport Layer Security.


PNGTuber

Blend of PNG (“image format”) + VTuber/YouTuber

A YouTube personality who uses stylized static images edited onto their videos as a substitute for a facecam.


hash rocket

From its use in creating hashes, and its resemblance to a space rocket.

programming language
programming language

(programming) The operator =>, used in the Ruby programming language to create hashes.


gamer word

From a now-deleted 2018 tweet defending YouTuber PewDiePie's use of the word nigger during a livestream of the video game PUBG: Battlegrounds, which asserted that he had merely uttered a "gamer word".

It’s just a gamer word, Arthur. Chill.

2019 May 3, JackUTS, Twitter, archived from the original on 2018-12-30

2019 June 3, AGoodOleGhost, “scuse me, i have the riGHT TO SAY GAMER WORDS”, in Reddit, Gamingcirclejerk, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:

I submitted video evidence of gamer words from a toxic crew about 3 weeks ago. Offenders GTs and in game audio were both very visible/audible. As of last night, both offenders were still sailing the seas. Reported to both Rare and Xbox. Very frustrating, indeed.

2020 July 2, 37yeti, “Gamer words need to stop!”, in Reddit, Seaofthieves, archived from the original on 2022-08-19

Ohm misunderstands and assumes everything. It's actually incredible.
Moo, 407, and other guys in the group didn't unfollow you bc I accused of some James acct.
They unfollowed you bc you literally went off the rails trying to cancel Marcel for gamer words. Moron.

2021 May 26, I_AM_WILDCAT, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-19

2022 May 1, Winters1482, “guy threatens to call someone a gamer word over master cheeks”, in Reddit, ShitHaloSays, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:


orange pill

en-verb

orange pill (third-person singular simple present orange pills, present participle orange pilling, simple past and past participle orange pilled)

orange pills (present singular third-person)
orange pilling (participle present)
orange pilled (participle past)
orange pilled (past)

Influenced by red pill, in reference to the orange color of the respective logos.
(urbanism): After the orange-colored logo of the YouTube channel Not Just Bikes.

The goal of orange pilling someone has nothing to do with drugs. It is the notion that bitcoin will inevitably become the global reserve asset, while converting people to believe in the bitcoin standard.

2021 October 12, Dawdu M. Amantanah, “Taking The Orange Pill: A Theory Or Reality?”, in Bitcoin Magazine, archived from the original on 2023-11-03

"Hola, amigos! Are you having a good time?" The president spoke in accented but clear English. The president showed off his Bitcoin fluency, dropping references to Satoshi, mining, cold storage, and orange-pilled. Then he made the big announcement.

2022, John Turnure, Crypto Kingdom, Jota Press, page 118

I suggested she wait for her sister to show curiosity about bitcoin before attempting to orange-pill her.

2022 August 26, Mark Maraia, “What Does It Mean To Orange-Pill Someone?”, in Bitcoin Magazine, archived from the original on 2023-07-14

This is evident with Sam, who has been exposed to Bitcoin throughout her entire life. ¶ She even accidentally orange-pilled her own school teacher.

2023 July 5, Ciaran Lyons, “Should you 'orange pill' children? The case for Bitcoin kids books”, in Cointelegraph, archived from the original on 2023-08-01

(transitive, slang) To convince someone to invest in Bitcoin.


soy face

A weird, soundless, open-mouthed excitement that portends nothing good. People have talked about it for years, and called it by many names: "Cuckface," "Nu-Male Smile," and, most enduringly, "Soy Face" (sometimes even "Soylent Grin").

2020 July 2, Miles Klee, “'Soy Face' Is Real, and It's Annoying”, in MEL Magazine

(Internet slang, derogatory) A facial expression associated with unmasculine and immature men (soy boys), who are often photographed expressing surprise or excitement with their mouth agape.


Faketoshi

(cryptocurrencies slang) Someone who falsely claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin.


hardlock

(video games) A situation where a game becomes unplayable, making further progress or action impossible, typically due to a design flaw or glitch.


hardlock

hardlock (third-person singular simple present hardlocks, present participle hardlocking, simple past and past participle hardlocked)

hardlocks (present singular third-person)
hardlocking (participle present)
hardlocked (participle past)
hardlocked (past)

(video games, transitive or intransitive) To be in or cause a hardlock; to transition to becoming unplayable.


Coxeter graph

Named after Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.

(graph theory) A 3-regular graph with 28 vertices and 42 edges, one of the 13 known cubic distance-regular graphs.


VMT

virtual method table
w:virtual method table

(programming) Initialism of virtual method table.


EaaS

en-noun

EaaS (countable and uncountable, plural EaaS's or EaaSes)

(computing) Initialism of environments-as-a-service.

(computing) Initialism of enterprise-as-a-service.


mainpriv

the only downside to mainprivs is that people usually wont notice if you follow them i think

oh the way I can talk about anything and everything when I'm priv now I understand why some love having mainprivs

2021 December 11, ria (@latteracha), Twitter

this account was originally my mainpriv but ive gotten tired of being on priv all the time i want to scream and shout about my love for dmc and trigun

2022 August 23, LAIN (@dogboyism), Twitter

(Internet slang) A primary social media account that is locked or private.


cupsona

Just wanted to share again that my cupsona is a beerstein Hahaha I could go for a drink right now #cuphead

2017 October 16, Louie Ramos (@battz_lu), Twitter

i dont play cuphead but at this point im p convinced my cupsona would jjust be an ikea glass

2017 October 18, ßilly ßadass🌸 (@peerifool_), Twitter

Had to do it, had to make a cupsona... Well, more like just an oc but still!!

2019 April 19, Amberlea (@Amberlea_draws), Twitter

(fandom slang) A Cuphead alter ego or self-insert character created by a fan, typically having some form of beverage container for a head.


unadvertisement

unadvertisement (countable and uncountable, plural unadvertisements)

When a publisher disconnects from Broker 1, Broker 1 sends an unadvertisement message for any advertisements it has received from the publisher. Note that these unadvertisements may induce unsubscriptions to be propagated in the reverse direction of the unadvertisement propagation […]

2010, Laurence T. Yang, Mobile Intelligence, page 79

(computing, countable, uncountable) The withdrawal of an earlier notification.


DBAL

(software) Initialism of database abstraction layer, a software architecture layer


BLL

(software) Initialism of business logic layer, a software architecture layer


Imgurian

People who call themselves Imgurians upload, browse, vote and comment on images and animated clips called GIFS.[…]By 2011 when [Alan] Schaaf and the team moved the company to San Francisco, Imgur had gone from being a place that hosted images to a hangout for a passionate community of Imgurians.

2014 February 19, Jessica Guynn, “Imgur hopes selfie shows a Web giant”, in Los Angeles Times, pages B1 and B6

[Sarah] Schaaf is often described as the queen of the “Imgurians,” as users call themselves, monitoring comments and enforcing community guidelines while “figuring out what is going to be the new joke or meme bubbling up,” she says. After noticing that community members were eager to meet up in person, she organized Camp Imgur last August in Mendocino, California, for 500 Imgurians.

2016 June, “Super Social Media Stars”, in Fast Company, page 57

In an effort to elicit positive feedback (upvotes) from other Imgurians, commenters create normative comments which reinforce social identity.

2017 July 12, Brent J. Hale, ““+1 for Imgur”: A content analysis of SIDE theory and common voice effects on a hierarchical bidirectionally-voted commenting system”, in Computers in Human Behavior, volume 77, published December 2017, →DOI, pages 220–229

(Internet) A user of the image sharing app and website Imgur.


BYOC

Across the partition is the pitch-black BYOC area. That's BYOC as in “bring your own computer.” A major gaming event like CPL Winter always consists of two separate attractions.

2008, Michael Kane, Game Boys […], Penguin

That said, it's important to discuss the ways in which attendees—particularly those simply playing together on the demo stations and bring-your-own-console (BYOC) floor compared to the tournament matches—played socially.

2013, Todd Harper, The Culture of Digital Fighting Games: Performance and Practice, Routledge, page 81

(video games) Initialism of bring your own computer (or console).

BYOC is easy to perform and, unfortunately, is convenient for employees. An employee just needs to enroll in a free Software as a Service (SaaS) offer to use it immediately.

2016, Eric Diehl, Ten Laws for Security, Springer, page 177

(cloud computing) Initialism of bring your own cloud.

We can use bring your own container (BYOC) if the package or software we need is not included in a supported framework.

2021, Chris Fregly, Antje Barth, Data Science on AWS, O'Reilly Media

(computing) Initialism of bring your own container.


this you

'This you' reminds them that a little infographic or a hashtag doesn’t absolve them of past transgressions, and we see through the empty platitudes and insincere expressions of solidarity.

2020 June 3, Jumi Akinfenwa, “'This You?' – How Black Twitter Turned Accountability Into an Art Form”, in VICE

Barbie, of all things, also got called out a few times for a message of solidarity with the Black community, proving that no brand is immune from the "this you?" meme. Despite its apparent oath to "champion diversity," users brought up receipts that Barbie is, quite literally, a cop.

2020 June 5, Stacey Ritzen, “The 'this you?' meme calls out the hypocrisy of brands and public figures”, in The Daily Dot

A detailed tweet revealing how a star who just announced #blacklivesmatter also has a history of mistreating her black colleagues is juicy to read. But a "This you?" retweet from a random user is like a simple alley-oop; it just hits differently.

2020 June 9, Aisha Harris, “'This You?' (It Definitely Is)”, in New York Times

(Internet, Twitter) Used to call out a user's hypocrisy.


recursive neural network

recursive neural network (plural recursive neural networks)

(artificial intelligence) A kind of deep neural network created by applying the same set of weights recursively over a structured input, to produce a structured prediction over variable-size input structures.


hot wallet

cryptocurrency wallet
cryptocurrency wallet

(cryptocurrencies) A cryptocurrency wallet which has its private key stored on the network so that it can be used for frequent transactions.


random neural network

random neural network (plural random neural networks)

(machine learning) A mathematical representation of an interconnected network of neurons or cells which exchange spiking signals.


progressive web application

progressive web application (plural progressive web applications)

Coined by designer Frances Berriman and Google Chrome engineer Alex Russell in 2015, from the notion that web applications can progressively turn into native-like apps, following the idea of progressive enhancement.

Coordinate term: single-page application

The two things that are needed for a web application to become a progressive web application are a mainfest and a service worker.

2017, Gaurav Saini, Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 200

(software, web development) A type of application software delivered through the web, built using common web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebAssembly.


built different

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-built different.wav

The term was popularized by a July 2020 trend on the video-sharing website TikTok, in which users jokingly claimed to be able to accomplish various improbable tasks as a result of being “built different”.

I learnt that true rock climbers are built different. Their bodies will do things mere humans can't.

1999, Peter Inchbald, “Plato’s Garden: Oxford 1937–39”, in Jack of All Trades and His Family, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu Press, published 2013, book II (Speaking from Memory), page 101

Some people are built different, and kudos to them who are like that, but I'm built different. I always say I'm the most competitive person I know, and look at my wife, she rolling her eyes probably.

2017 July 14, Alysha Tsuji, quoting Chris Paul, “Chris Paul Quoted ‘Talladega Nights’ while Talking about Rockets’ Goal of Winning a Title”, in For the Win, USA Today, archived from the original on 2022-06-25

Not many coaches in the nation have the ability to turn overlooked recruits into All-Americans, but [Mark] Dantonio is built different.

2018 August 30, Connor Muldowney, “Michigan State Football: 25 Best Players of the Mark Dantonio Era”, in Spartan Avenue, FanSided, archived from the original on 2022-11-08

We fully know our bodies and what we are risking especially at the professional level. […] He's [Kevin Durant's] built different than the ppl saying he shouldn't have played. Maybe that's why they haven’t gotten where he is.

2019 June 12, Des Bieler, quoting Richard Sherman, “Charles Barkley blames the Warriors for Kevin Durant’s injury”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-06-17

You are built different, sir. Our church is blessed to have such a faithful and committed leader.

2022, Dakota Andekin, “Acknowledgement”, in Prescription for Addiction: An Awakening in America through the Eradication of Addiction, Meadville, Pa.: Christian Faith Publishing

In the comments section, users recounted their alleged experience with the physical labor of working in an Amazon warehouse. / "My feet was so mfin sore. & the breaks were more like 5mins," claimed a commenter. "I only worked for two days." / "My shoulder still hurts and I haven't worked there since 2020," stated a second. / "I literally had quit on my second day," a further user added. "You built different if you work there."

2022 August 16, Braden Bjella, “‘TF am I Stretching at Work for?’: Amazon Warehouse Worker Says Workers Stretch as Group before Shift, Sparking Debate”, in The Daily Dot, archived from the original on 2022-08-30

How many shows have truly stuck the landing? Lost's final act cast a long, long shadow over its island shenanigans, Seinfeld's finale felt deliberately frustrating, and even The Sopranos – the gold standard – is talked about for all the wrong reasons because of its cut-to-black ending. Better Call Saul, however, is built different. Not long after the finale aired, fans have rushed to social media to dish out praise for the Breaking Bad spin-off, even going as far as christening it one of the best TV episodes of all time.

2022 August 16, Bradley Russell, “Better Call Saul Viewers React to ‘Perfect’ Finale: ‘An Absolute Masterpiece’”, in GamesRadar+, archived from the original on 2022-08-20

The 48-year-old [Terrell Owens] not only blew them out of the water, but also clocked an incredible sub-4.40 time in the 40-yard dash. Even among world-class athletes, some people are just built different.

2022 August 25, Zac Al-Khateeb, “Terrell Owens Runs Insane 4.38 40-yard Dash Time – at 48 Years Old”, in Sporting News, archived from the original on 2022-09-01

(originally African-American Vernacular, idiomatic, slang) Able to do things which others cannot; extremely talented or unusual.

erityinen

able to do things which others cannot; extremely talented or unusual


Minecraftian

en-adj

Minecraftian (comparative more Minecraftian, superlative most Minecraftian)

more Minecraftian (comparative)
most Minecraftian (superlative)

It’s time to go deeper into Minecraft, to not just learn how to be great at playing Minecraft, but to dive into every crevice of Minecraftian knowledge that there is in the world.

2015, Trevor Talley, “Introduction”, in Master Builder 3.0 Advanced: Minecraft®™ Secrets and Strategies from the Game’s Greatest Players, Triumph Books, page 5

A Note to Parents (…and grandparents, aunts and uncles, teachers, and all other Minecraftian grown-ups)

2015, James H. Clark, Cori Dusmann, John Moltz, The Visual Guide to Minecraft, Peachpit Press, page xii

Cracked and CollegeHumor have taken its pop cultural musings and made them into a Minecraftian mini-world from which there’s no escape.

2015 October 2, David Berry, “The glory days of National Lampoon revisited”, in Calgary Herald, page C2

Much, perhaps most, Minecraft fiction follows the robinsonade template, emphasizing the day-to-day life of a character, including nonhuman characters, striving to survive and thrive in a recognizably Minecraftian world by utilizing its resources.

2020, Michael T. Wilson, “Minecraft Fiction”, in Anne H. Stevens, Molly C. O’Donnell, editors, The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture, Bloomsbury Academic

(video games) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Minecraft.


Minecraftian

(video games, rare) A person who plays the game Minecraft; a Minecrafter.


LinkedIner

LinkedIn is especially useful when you’re looking for a new job — or a new employee, which helps explain its 70-million-strong global membership — because you’re no longer limited to asking your immediate colleagues for referrals. Now you can ask colleagues of colleagues, which greatly expands your reach. LinkedIners can also vouch for one another as references.

2010 July 8, David Pogue, “For Those Facebook Left Behind”, in The New York Times, section B, page 1

You don’t have to post funny pictures to engage with people here, in fact, LinkedIners probably won’t play with you if you do.

2013, Amy Denim, The Coffee Break Guide to Social Media for Writers: How to Succeed on Social Media and Still Have Time to Write, Denver, Colo.: Coffee Break Publishing, page 101

LinkedInners fell over themselves to wail that the white man-filled video was “just terrible”, “preposterous” and “shit”. “Who would want to work here?” harrumphed a typical viewer. “Can’t say I’ve seen a video lately with such a total lack of diversity,” said another.

2018 October 21, Pilita Clark, “The big problem with unconscious bias training”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 2018-10-21

[…] it’s an interesting moment to choose to launch Events. We’ll see if LinkedInners agree.

2019 October 15, Ingrid Lunden, “LinkedIn gets physical, debuts Events hub for people to plan in-person networking events”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 2019-10-16

HR people, or other executives, as fellow ‘LinkedIners’, you might use this article (or at least the headline title) if you need a “motivator” for their new people;[…].

2022, Paul Gammarano, Insights & Observations, Xlibris

(Internet) A user of the professional network service LinkedIn.


ggs

(online gaming slang) Initialism of good games.


star schema

From the resemblance to a star shape with a fact table at its center.

(databases, data warehousing) A denormalized database schema consisting of one or more fact tables referencing any number of dimension tables.


fact table

(databases, data warehousing) A database table consisting of the measurements, metrics or facts of a business process.


main menu

My computer's so slow, it takes two minutes just to load the main menu.

(computing, video games) A list of principal options, usually presented to the user immediately upon the launch of a computer program or video game.


rangeblock

(wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon) The blocking of access from an entire range of IP addresses.

wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon; wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon


password salting

en-noun

password salting (countable and uncountable, plural password saltings)

(computing) A technique employed to protect passwords stored in a database by attaching a string of 32 or more characters and then hashing them.


rage farm

en-verb

rage farm (third-person singular simple present rage farms, present participle rage farming, simple past and past participle rage farmed)

rage farms (present singular third-person)
rage farming (participle present)
rage farmed (participle past)
rage farmed (past)

From rage + -farm (systematically manipulating others into giving a particular response). Compare ragebait.

af

You are being rage farmed. Your angry quote tweet = the goal.

2022 January 7, John Scott-Railton, Twitter

Mr O'Toole is not a dumb man, which means he must know how bad this argument is. It's just rage farming by — and probably for the benefit of — his social media team. The Conservative Party is increasingly indistinguishable from a facebook group. #cdnpoli

Rage farming is the product of a perfect storm of f***, an unholy mélange of algorithms and anxiety

2022 January 12, Molly Jang-Fast, “Owning the Libs Is the Only GOP Platform: and "rage farming" is their most cynical tactic”, in The Atlantic

Someone just asked “why do politicians keep trolling on Twitter?” Because their rage-farming is so extraordinarily effective; that’s why.

2022 January 27, @JustinRosenth11, Twitter

Don't fall for this juvenile rage farming this time

2022 February 7, Steven Monacelli, Twitter

When we come across something online that is so outrageous that we can't help but respond, we may be falling into the Rage Farming trap...Rage farmers don't care that people hate them...Rage Farming is a manipulative trick that all types of scammers use to go viral. Manipulators use the Read, Anger, Response cycle to rile us up.

Rage farming is a slang term for the political tactic of intentionally provoking political opponents in order to create or increase exposure for one’s group or cause. The tactic is especially associated with conservative and far-right political groups.

2022 March 13, Dictionary.com, Dictionary.com

Tumblr never left and remains the only Social media site I know of that doesn't feed you algorithmic click farming rage. It's just who you follow ordered by the time they posted.

@thasnarkknight @TheCriticalDri2 Nah I’m pretty sure it's just a meaningless buzzword used by rage farming YouTubers.

I think it's simple. The GOP are successful in the U.S. It's basically tyranny by minority. Our system isn't as flawed. However, culture wars, victimization, white nationalism, rage farming, and hate bring in money and votes. PP/CPC are just following the GOP strategy book.

2022 August 11, @MyNameI89349435, Twitter

A political scientist told The Tyee he expects aggressive attacks on politicians to increase in Canada as right-wing politicians continue to engage in "rage farming" by advancing false and misleading conspiracy narratives.

2022 August 27, Charles Rusnell, “The Attack on Freeland Sprouts from 'Rage Farming'”, in The Tyee

This is the problem—well, one of them—with the rage farming that is consuming the modern conservative movement...InfoWars founder Alex Jones was making as much as $800,000 a day peddling conspiracy theories, misinformation, and other forms of rage-farming fertilizer

2022 August 28, Max Fawcett, The National Observer

It's at the point where it isn't safe for anyone who's not on the far right of the political spectrum. Threats, intimidation, character assassination, lies, & conspiracy theories are encouraged by RW politicians engaging in rage farming. Much of the time, the MSM just ignores it.

cynical politicians and right-wing media trolls continue to rage farm.

2022 September 1, David Moscrop, The Washington Post

@DuaneBratt @leaderpost Scott Moe, the UCP and Poilievre are copying MAGA rage farming. We know and they know exactly where that leads in both countries

A thought: I'm not a member of any political party, but I am thinking of accumulating amounts to donate to the federal Libs & the AB NDP every time I see an anti-Trudeau hashtag trending, every time @PierrePoilievre or @ABDanielleSmith posts misleading info or rage farming BS,

@DennisKendel Another example of Cons rage farming. I for one am happy that someone is taking seriously water safety. Imagine the outrage if people not on reserves ended up with water boil advisories. Who would get the blame then? MAGA Light attacking federal agencies. Sound familiar?

@roulinski Rage Farming I wonder if the bug idea is Russian or Koch?

(Internet, derogatory) To publish false and misleading content to intentionally increase online interaction.


speedpaint

(Internet) An accelerated screen recording showing the creation of art, particularly digital drawings.


Fortniter

When a clubhouse attendant brought a PlayStation4 to the Suns clubhouse, the dynamic shifted and helped turn some 70% of the team into Fortniters.

2018 May 22, Gabe Lacques, “Popular battle royale video game extends reach to dugout”, in Statesman Journal, volume 167, number 39, page 5C

An inveterate Fortniter, Price immediately came under media suspicion of going too deep and too late into his video game starts (anybody know the seven-inning equivalent of a twitch count?).

2018 October 7, Kevin Paul Dupont, “Canucks’ games are all on the ice”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 294, number 99, page C5

Make sure your island is 100 percent completed and fully functional before publishing it. If you need to make changes to your island after it’s been published, it will receive a new code. Any Fortniter can then access the Creative Hub,[…].

2019, Jason R. Rich, Creative Expert for Fortniters: An Unofficial Guide to Battle Royale, Hollan Publishing

A player of the online video game Fortnite.


transplain

en-verb

transplain (third-person singular simple present transplains, present participle transplaining, simple past and past participle transplained)

transplains (present singular third-person)
transplaining (participle present)
transplained (participle past)
transplained (past)

When you lead with story instead of education, then it becomes absorbed emotionally and intuitively so you don't really have to explain things. I don't think people respond as well to being transplained.

2015, Rhys Ernst, quoted in Mehera Bonner, "Rhys Ernst on the Pop Culture Trans Movement", Marie Claire, 21 August 2015

The “they” I’m referring to is not transgender people. (Though the bullies will pretend that it is.) I’m referring to the “trans activists” — some sinister, most joyless, and more than a few who don’t even identify as transgender themselves — who delight in “transplaining” to the rest of us the rules of this new, glittering utopia, where spaces must be shared, safeguards dismantled, disagreement decreed to be hate speech, and women must not be allowed to gather to discuss laws that will affect them.

2018 October 1, Lucy Bannerman, “Trans movement has been hijacked by bullies and trolls”, in The Times, UK

"It's all about the lens to me," Escola continues. "A lot of culture and art is created with the straight audience in mind, gay-splaining and transsplaining to a straight audience. Like, 'We are human. Look, we cry just like regular people! And you're a good person because you cried when we cried.'"

2021, Cole Escola, quoted in Meredith Blake, "Contains Multitudes", Los Angeles Times, 21 January 2021

(colloquial, usually derogatory, chiefly Internet) To explain transgender issues to a cis person (as a trans person or ally), especially in a condescending, heavy-handed, or preachy manner.


GRWM

Another look reminiscent of Kylie Jenner was created by Carli Bybel. Sticking to products with a mauve, brownish-pink tone, the beauty look is both subdued and glamorous — pretty without being too much of a statement. Bybel looks so gorgeous at the end of this GRWM video that it's impossible not to want to at least try the look for your next night out.

2015 October 1, Melodi Erdogan, “13 Lovely "Get Ready With Me" Videos From YouTube”, in Bustle

In the same GRWM video, she demonstrated how she uses this powder, emphasizing applying it before bronzer, and making sure to carry the powder all the way down your neck.

2022 September 8, Madison Yauger, “Madison LeCroy Shares the Beauty Staples She 'Never Leaves Town Without'”, in People

(Internet) Initialism of get ready with me.


GRWM

They're all-rounders, posting hair tutorials, fashion styling videos, and day-in-the-life vlogs. Their GRWMs and vlogs are addictive because of how accessible they are, watching them go on dates, getting ready for university, going to festivals - it's refreshing, fun, and creative content.

2021 September 24, Chloe Laws, “#TrendingWithTikTok: We chat to Iconicakes, AKA Sara and Avni, the internet's favourite sisters”, in Glamour

If his nearly five million followers are any indication, Feid is a sensation on TikTok. In a clip, the Colombian artist shared a GRWM (get ready with me), where he suggested fits to dress up as him.

2022 October 26, Jessica Roiz, “7 Last-Minute DIY Costume Ideas to Pay Tribute to Your Favorite Latin Star This Halloween”, in Billboard

(Internet) A video showing how one gets ready (for the day).


burner account

Another area that sports organizations need to consider with risk assessment is the emergence of burner accounts (i.e., social media accounts that a person operates under a fake name, which allows them to post things the may not be willing to post from their identified account). NBA player Kevin Durant has admitted to using burner accounts on Twitter to defend himself against criticism (Shiller, 2020).

2021 July 26, Gashaw Abeza, Norman O'reilly, Jimmy Sanderson, Evan Frederick, Social Media In Sport: Theory And Practice (Emerging Issues And Trends In Sport Business), World Scientific, page 332

(Internet, informal) An anonymous account (typically on a social media website) used (temporarily) for activities that the user does not want to have tied to their main account.


jumbogram

(networking) An Internet-layer packet exceeding the standard maximum transmission unit of the underlying network technology.


FYP

His fyp is probably filled with girls twerking.

There is one fashion item, however, that has the opposite effect and could cause a relationship’s downfall — at least according to TikTok. Enter: the “shoe theory.” The theory, which populated FYPs in December, posits that if you gift your S.O. footwear, you will eventually split up.

2023 March 16, Alyssa Lapid, “Everything To Know About The “Shoe Theory” Going Viral On TikTok”, in Bustle

(social media, TikTok) Initialism of for you page.; the home page of TikTok which consists of content automatically curated specifically for the user.


WoWer

Well, I have to say I was a reluctant WoWer, but I have been into gaming since I was young, before college.

2007 January 28, John Faherty, quoting Luoluo Hong, “Dean of students accomplishes objectives, forms friendships … and then there’s her job”, in The Arizona Republic, 117th year, number 255, page B2

I ask [Lauren] Davenport to give some advice to up and coming WoWers in an effort to send them on the right path.

2007 March 3, Angela Bunt, “World of Warcraft: A very real battle”, in The Voice: The Student Press of Westfield State College, volume XII, number XIV, page 3

Personally, I have my doubts about basing public health policy on the reactions of people whose diet consists of Mountain Dew and pot-noodles. But there are nine million WoW[-]ers, so I may be wrong.

2007 September 12, Evan Morris, “The Word Detective”, in Green Bay Press-Gazette, page E-6

Numbers, to a certain degree, aren’t that big of a deal (although it helps to prove points) because when one comes to think about it, how many “real” friends does one have? Millions? Or just a few? Acquaintances, certainly. So, are “WoW”ers socializing? Absolutely. Simply in another medium.

2008 March 29, Omar L. Gallaga, “Masters of their domains: Gathering spot for gamers has ‘WoW’ factor: Online community Datecraft caters to fans of fantasy game”, in Austin American-Statesman, page F1

For those of us WoWers not in the beta, keep up hope. There are apparently going to be more invites sent out in the future.

2008 July 31, Adam Wratten, “Resident Gamer: The WoW Beta is in full swing”, in The Monitor, volume 100, number 18, page 1D

Yup, World of Warcraft has been an amazing success: a massively multiplayer game that is easy to learn, addictive, and requires months of overuse to master to reach the highest levels to then join guilds to cruise around in packs with other like-minded WoWers.

2011, Andy Kessler, Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs, Portfolio / Penguin, page 206

In most MMO expansions, players are asked by their faction leaders to do one thing: kill the big threat. In Warlords of Draenor, they're being asked to do something more: build a fortress and raise an army of followers. It's an interesting twist that should appeal to some non-WoWers.

2013 November 10, Josh Augustine, “The Sims and SimCity collide in World of Warcraft's new castle-building feature”, in PCGamesN, archived from the original on 2013-11-13

UK WoWers: time to schedule an appointment with your bank manager. When Warlords of Draenor releases this November , the game's £9 per month subscription will be sky-rocketing for those not already nestled in its auto-renewing charge.

2014 August 18, Phil Savage, “World of Warcraft to get a (slight) subscription hike in the UK”, in PC Gamer, archived from the original on 2020-11-12

So to find out how well the film [Warcraft] serves players and non-players, we dispatched devoted WoWer Luke "For the Horde!" Westaway and Warcraft virgin Rich "Why are everyone's shoulders so big?!" Trenholm on a quest...to the movies.

2016 June 10, “Is the 'Warcraft' movie any good? A player and a non-player quest to find out”, in CNET, archived from the original on 2022-12-24

Massed ranks of young WoWers－World of Warcraft (WoW) devotees－also drove Chinese records for the number of cinemas showing the film [Warcraft], multiple viewings and other movie statistics. […] He Shuai, a 27-year-old WoWer, booked his premiere ticket a fortnight in advance. […] For many WoWers, Warcraft is an integral part of their youth. […] WoWer Zhu Jian says the game is a great social leveler. […] The secret of Warcraft's success, he [Tang Long] argues, is that it does not follow the conventional pattern of hitting a monster and upgrading equipment, but creates a world with its own culture of responsibility and honor. This gives WoWers a sense of belonging and loyalty.

2016 July 25, “Warcraft wows Chinese, sows seeds of fan economy”, in China Daily, archived from the original on 2016-07-26

WoW players were caricaturized in South Park’s episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft,” and characters in the TV series The Big Bang Theory are depicted as avid WoWers.

2017, “Warcraft”, in Robert Mejia, Jaime Banks, Aubrie Adams, editors, 100 Greatest Video Game Franchises, Rowman & Littlefield, page 197

Though a small chunk of chapter 6 lays out the important distinctions between PvE and PvP environments, veteran WoWers will have noticed I have barely touched upon another major category of realm server.

2017, Anthony R. Palumbi, “The Storytellers”, in Blood Plagues and Endless Raids: A Hundred Million Lives in the World of Warcraft, Chicago Review Press

Now, here's the good news: it doesn't appear that Freddy Prinze Jr. is as much of a WoWer as he was before. The bad news: he launched a YouTube channel called GEGGHEAD where he films himself playing other games, such as Call of Duty WW2.

2018 October 9, Stassi Reid, “Strange Things About Sarah Michelle Gellar And Freddie Prinze Jr.'s Relationship”, in Nicki Swift, Static Media, archived from the original on 2021-02-28

These guilds and friendships form across age, class, and gender divides, and yet, in the context of the game, all share a collective identity as WoWers.

2020, Marcella Szablewicz, “Carving Out a Spiritual Homeland”, in Mapping Digital Game Culture in China: From Internet Addicts to Esports Athletes (East Asian Popular Culture), Palgrave Macmillan, page 121

A player of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.


TikTokky

en-adj

TikTokky (comparative more TikTokky, superlative most TikTokky)

more TikTokky (comparative)
most TikTokky (superlative)

The moves were a TikTokky blend of semaphore and street dance, busy with content. The teen, whose name is Zoi Lerma, has a large following on the network and her dance percolated around the world, with other celebrated TikTokkers adding their own versions.

2020 November 13, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “Benee’s ‘Hey u x’ illustrates the upside of TikTok-dominated pop”, in Financial Times

Today they look uncannily TikTokky: the self-explanatory Old Man Drinking a Glass of Beer, and the 37-second long The Miller and the Sweep, in which the two title characters bop one another with their respective sacks, creating billowing clouds of black and white dust.

2022 February 25, Robbie Collin, “The golden age of silent films is back – it’s called TikTok”, in The Telegraph

While Instagram has vacillated as to just how TikToky it will make its interface – essentially a measure of what its users won't launch a Change.org petition to stop – it really hasn't been shy about making adjustments that can keep users fluidly swiping up through an endless video feed, while deprecating photos to the point where I sometimes wonder why I use Instagram at all.

2022 August 8, Lance Ulanoff, “Instagram is about to get photos all wrong (again)”, in TechRadar

Jessia’s rise to fame is a classic Cinderella story—with a modern, TikTokky twist. Last year was a particularly rough time for the Vancouver-based vocalist. […] Within hours, the clip had surpassed a million views on TikTok.

2022 September 1, Lora Grady, “Canadian pop newcomer Jessia is rising to new heights”, in Maclean's

(rare) Relating to or characteristic of the video-sharing app TikTok.


codebug

en-verb

codebug (third-person singular simple present codebugs, present participle codebugging, simple past and past participle codebugged)

codebugs (present singular third-person)
codebugging (participle present)
codebugged (participle past)
codebugged (past)

Developers can invite others into their workspace to coedit, cobuild, or codebug and can communicate with one another in the workspace itself.

2014, K. Chandrasekaran, Essentials of Cloud Computing, page 152


superserver

(computing) A server that controls or manages other servers.


en-noun

Alt-F4 (countable and uncountable, plural Alt-F4s)

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) A keyboard shortcut in Windows that completely closes the application or a focused window.


subserver

(computing) A server that is subordinate to, or controlled by, another server.


VACation

VACation (countable and uncountable, plural VACations)

From VAC, initials of the Valve Anti-Cheat software, and vacation.

(video games, slang) A user's enforced absence from the Steam video-gaming service and its community, as a result of being banned for cheating.


email storm

Microsoft is rolling out a new reply-all protection feature for Office 365 and Exchange Online. It’s designed to prevent email storms, when hundreds or thousands of people start replying to an email thread after someone forgot to BCC everyone or a distribution list was misconfigured.

2020 May 10, Tom Warren, “Microsoft now blocks reply-all email storms to end our inbox nightmares”, in The Verge

(computing) A sudden spike in emails within an email list, usually caused by thousands of individuals sending "reply all" emails within a short period of time.


e-barrassment

yeah, it's e-barrassment. like e-mail.

2007 April 10, “1st place baby!”, in alt.sports.baseball.atlanta-braves (Usenet)

Email etiquette and the risky reply-all were highlighted as one Australian lawyer made a major email faux pas, leading to his sacking.

2012 March 3, “From the vault: Aussie lawyer's "e-barrassment" over email faux pas”, in Lawyers Weekly, archived from the original on 2022-09-20

How to prevent 'e-barrassment'.

2015 June 23, Hayley Tsukayama, “Ever send an e-mail you wish you could take back? Now, in Gmail, you can.”, in Washington Post

You know what the English language needs? A word for the hot, sickening feeling you get when you accidentally hit "Reply All," subsequently broadcasting a private message to a much larger group. Maybe we should call it e-barrassment. Or forwardboding. Or Sents insensibility.

2019 January 17, David Pogue, “How to Handle the Dreaded 'Reply All Moment'”, in New York Times

(Internet, informal, neologism) Humiliation as a result of sending an email with embarrassing mistakes.


breakout room

(Internet, video conferencing applications) A subroom of a meeting room, in which certain participants can have discussions that are private or separate from the rest of the conference.


arbitrary-precision arithmetic

(computer science) Any calculation that is performed on numbers whose digits of precision are limited only by the available memory of the host system.


interapplication

There are two parties to an interapplication communication: the application that initiates the message, and the application that receives it.

2006, Matt Neuburg, AppleScript: The Definitive Guide

(computing) Between software applications.


fusking

Less than two months before the Hogan piece, a Gawker writer who would later become the site's editor writes a piece condemning the rise of “fusking”—the practice of stealing photos from online accounts and posting them.


Nuzlocke

John Locke (Lost)
List of generation III Pokémon#Nuzleaf
Lost (2004 TV series)

Blend of Nuzleaf + Locke. From the title of Nuzlocke Comics, which features a Pokémon, Nuzleaf, drawn to resemble John Locke from Lost as a recurring character.

Here are the rules for a Nuzlocke:
• If a Pokemon faints, it’s dead. You need to release it, store it in a box for the rest of the run, or transfer it to another game. You can’t use it until you’ve successfully become the Pokemon League Champion and completed the Nuzlocke.
• You can only catch the first Pokemon you encounter in each location. This includes caves, towns, routes, and so on - if the area has an official title, it counts as an independent location where you can capture one single Pokemon, provided it’s the first one you come across. If you make it faint or it flees, you can’t catch a new one - no second chances. This doesn’t apply to static encounters, although using Legendary Pokemon is frowned upon. You can catch Shiny Pokemon regardless of the rules, although the consensus on whether or not they’re allowed to be used is widely disputed.

2021 January 8, Cian Maher, “The Nuzlocke Challenge Is The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Classic Pokemon”, in The Gamer, archived from the original on 2022-09-19

(Pokémon) A self-imposed challenge where the player can only catch the first wild Pokémon encountered in each area, and any caught Pokémon that faints cannot be used again.

Ok now that Ive done two impromptu nuzlockes of games outside Pokemon (Mario Odyssey and Kirby Super Star). Im starting to think where else I can push it lol
Splatoon 2 Nuzlocke? Start from fresh save file and try to make it to X rank. If you lose a match you lose that weapon 🤔

2020 January 26, Failboat103, Twitter, archived from the original on 2020-01-27

(by extension) A similarly challenging playthrough of any game other than Pokémon.


out-of-band signaling

(networking, telecommunications) A type of transmission technology in which signaling is separate from the data being transmitted, using one or more channels for transmitting data or voice information and one out-of-band channel for performing signaling functions.


Twitterature

(Internet slang, literature) Literary use of the microblogging service Twitter, especially in the form of aphorisms, poetry, and fiction.


Twitter novel

(Internet) A novel that was originally posted as a series of tweets on the microblogging service Twitter.


multicloud

a multicloud architecture

(computing) Of or relating to more than one cloud, in the context of cloud computing.


skeleton programming

(programming) A top-down approach in computer programming based on simple high-level structures, resembling pseudocode, that are gradually fleshed out with details.


semantic versioning

Coordinate term: calendar versioning

(software) A versioning scheme where each release is given a three-part version number of the form major.minor.patch. The major number is incremented to indicate a breaking change, minor for new non-breaking features, and patch for other non-breaking changes.


SemVer

Coordinate term: CalVer

The Semantic Versioning (hereafter SemVer) specification, created by Tom Preston-Werner, is an attempt to specify rigorously and technically what version numbers (or, more precisely, what changes in version numbers) actually mean.

2022, Mark Vareschi, Heather Wacha, editors, Intermediate Horizons: Book History and Digital Humanities, University of Wisconsin Press, page 154

semantic versioning
semantic versioning#English

(software) Abbreviation of semantic versioning.


search as you type

(computing) An autocomplete feature when used to search for something.


twiction

Call it flash fiction, nanofiction, twitfic, twiction, or a dozen other names. Though the name might not yet be agreed upon, flash fiction tweets are here to stay. The premise is simple: create a whole story with only 140 characters.

2012 February 1, Ben Mitchell-Lewis, The Best Flash Fiction on Twitter, Hyperink Inc

Popular contemporary cousins include six-word memoirs, twiction, and the blog-born listicle. Nonliterary ancestors can be traced primarily to mid-century visual artists whose works explore themes of appropriation (e.g., Duchamp,[…]

2018 04, Kim Adrian, The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, U of Nebraska Press

The latter has made people remark that “the novel by tweet is really a digital extension of flash fiction, an established literary genre 262 TG 2014 263 Other terms most commonly used include twitterature and twiction; an alternative[…]

2018, Christina Maria Huber, Will Spook You For Real: Strategies of inspiring Societal Anxieties, Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, page 111

(Internet slang, literature) Fiction hosted on the microblogging site Twitter; fictional works of Twitterature.


twitfic

twitfic (countable and uncountable, plural twitfics)

Steve indulges on occasion with a bit of 140character long fiction but he admits, “I start each of mine with the word 'TWITFIC!' to tell people what I'm doing, so I really get 131.” Some of his TwitFic went like this: “I'm from the[…]

2009 June 29, Tee Morris, All a Twitter: A Personal and Professional Guide to Social Networking with Twitter, Que Publishing

He's had twitfic published in @tweetthemeat, @thaumatrope, and @outshine, among others. Join his twitfic community at twitfic.com. F.I. Goldhaber F.i. Goldhaber has had short stories, novels, poems, features, essays,[…]

2010 October 15, J. S. Graustein, Rose Auslander, On a Narrow Windowsill: Fiction and Poetry Folded Onto Twitter, Folded Word, page 145

Meanwhile, The Guardian ran Twitfics from twenty-one heavyweights including Jeffrey Archer, Geoff Dyer, and Ian Rankin. “Blaise Pascal didn't tweet and neither did Mark Twain,” began the story by the UK MIllennium Poet and Iowa Workshop[…]

2013 November 14, David Comfort, An Insider's Guide to Publishing, Penguin

The first is 'twitfic', mentioned by several TV 2.0 participants. As one might imagine, it is a very abbreviated work of fiction spread over a number of tweets. Anne's response pointed to the limitations of Twitter for such a practice:[…]

2017 March 30, Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick, Thomas Poell, The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, SAGE

Legend has it that Hemingway won a barbet by composing the first Twitfic on an Algonquin bar napkin: “Classified: Baby Goods. For sale, baby shoes, never worn.” The king of brevity already knew what the Memory & Cognition Journal[…]

TwitFic. Because network access on Windows Phone must be performed asynchronously, it takes quite a bit of code to construct the RESTful Web service request properly. Most of the code, however, is repetitive and thus all of the major[…]

2012 June 10, Henry Lee, Eugene Chuvyrov, Beginning Windows Phone App Development, Apress, page 393

(Internet slang, literature) Fiction hosted on the microblogging site Twitter; twiction.


login wall

(informal, Internet) A website notification that prevents an unregistered visitor from viewing any content until signing up or opening an account.


code wheel

A flat circular object consisting of concentric portions printed with codes or patterns that appear at certain positions as the wheel is rotated, used as a form of copy protection distributed with older video games.


RIP troll

Furthermore, they illustrated RIP trolls' deeply privileged (not to mention paternalistic) worldview, which the trolls subsequently used to justify what were still often quite destructive behaviors.

2015, Whitney Phillips, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, page 84

He uses trolling techniques to fight back against trolls that he particularly finds malevolent—specifically pedophiles and RIP trolls.

2018, Jill Anne Morris, The Internet as a Game

(Internet) An Internet troll who leaves deliberately offensive messages on online memorials to the deceased.


diehard test

random number generator
random number generator

(computing) Any of a collection of statistical tests for gauging the randomness of a random number generator.


early return

With RAII, the closing action cannot be skipped or bypassed, even if the function exits the scope prematurely with an early return or by throwing an exception.

2019, Fedor G. Pikus, Hands-On Design Patterns with C++, page 469

(programming) The act of returning from a function before reaching the end of that function.


TRPG

roleplaying game
roleplaying game#English

(games) Initialism of tabletop roleplaying game.

tactical role-playing game
tactical role-playing game#English

(video games) Initialism of tactical role-playing game.


ultrabullet chess

(chess, Internet, rare) Alternative form of ultrabullet.


hyperbullet chess

(chess, Internet, rare) Alternative form of hyperbullet.


SRPG

(video games) Initialism of strategy roleplaying game.


hyperbullet

At the tender age of 20, Penguingm1 is already one of the best hyperbullet and ultrabullet chess players in the world.

2020 October 1, Aaron Alford, “Cloud9 signs grandmaster chess player Penguingm1”, in Dot Esports

Firouzja’s surprise loss to Fedoseev this week was partly attributed to his preference for 1+0 bullet without the one second per move increment. And there are plenty who consider even 1+0 bullet too slow, and prefer to play hyperbullet, 30 seconds, or ultrabullet, 15 seconds for the entire game without increment.

2020 November 6, Leonard Barden, “Chess: Magnus Carlsen showcases his bullet skills with 11 straight wins”, in The Guardian

(chess, Internet) Chess played at an extremely fast time control, with each side getting 30 seconds to make their moves.


ultrabullet

Nakamura is a deadly performer at time rates ranging from 25-minute rapid right down to online "ultrabullet", where each player has 15 seconds for the entire game.

2021 August 18, “Nakamura unbeaten for 27 games; Sinquefield Cup starts in St Louis”, in Financial Times

(chess, Internet) Chess played at an extremely fast time control, with each side getting 15 seconds to make their moves.


Cali or bust

Many more are coming to the same realisation as Fox: "Cali or bust". But this is at the expense of other tech hubs. Boston, for example, was once tipped to be the hub Silicon Valley has become. While it is still a major player, particularly in med tech, for various reasons, California came out on top.

2015 October 12, John Holden, “The networking in Silicon Valley is unparalleled”, in The Irish Times

University of Waterloo graduates stressed there is a lot of peer pressure to land jobs in Silicon Valley. The saying on campus is: "Cali or bust."

2018 May 3, Terry Pender, “'Cali or bust': Tech sector losing grads to Silicon Valley”, in Waterloo Chronicle

CALI OR BUST (overline)

2018 May 11, Lila MacLellan, “Alarm bells should be going off in Canada's STEM industry”, in Quartz

The main reasons for why a student would 'Cali or bust' are: higher internship pay in the US, experience new locations & cultures, work at reputable companies, and the fact that the many of their classmates are also heading to the US.

2018 May 15, Bo Peng, “The Cali or Bust Conundrum”, in bopeng.io

(university slang, computer science) Expressing a desire to work for a company in Silicon Valley, California (especially a FAANG company).


DevSecOps

Blend of dev(elopment) + sec(urity) + op(eration)s; modeled after DevOps.

blend

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) An augmentation of the DevOps approach that allows for the integration of security practices.