Posts tagged: glossary

POG

2026-01-08T20:17:27Z

POG: Play Of the Game - used to express shock or excitement after a noteworthy moment.

Git

2025-12-06T09:59:01Z

Git is a version control system for tracking changes in source code during software development. In the beginning there were many, some were licensed. As Linus worked on Linux one tried to strike him for using it without paying so he made git in 10 days as an F U. He made it because he needed it to work on the kernel with no one else in mind as the target audience. It’s since been maintained by Junio Hamano and became nearly the only version control system used by anyone in software.

Starlette

2025-10-22T09:21:39Z

Starlette is a low level web framework for modern (as of 2025) async python development most famously used by FastAPI.

From the Starlette documentation #

Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit, which is ideal for building async web services in Python.

It is production-ready, and gives you the following:

A lightweight, low-complexity HTTP web framework.
WebSocket support.
In-process background tasks.
Startup and shutdown events.
Test client built on httpx.
CORS, GZip, Static Files, Streaming responses.
Session and Cookie support.
100% test coverage.
100% type annotated codebase.
Few hard dependencies.
Compatible with asyncio and trio backends.
Great overall performance against independent benchmarks.

Html

2025-09-16T11:49:20Z

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard markup language used to create and design documents on the World Wide Web. It structures web content by defining elements such as headings, paragraphs, links, images, and other multimedia components. HTML uses a system of tags to denote different types of content and their relationships, allowing browsers to render the content appropriately for users. It is a fundamental technology alongside CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and JavaScript that enables the creation of interactive and visually appealing web pages.

Clippy No Simpy

2025-09-02T20:58:32Z

“Clippy no Simpy” is a term coined by Louis Rossmann, when people try to stand up for companies doing scummy things like charging your for features that you already own, taking the companies best interest ahead of the consumers. This is often used when companies change the terms and conditions after you make your purchase requiring something like a subscription to use the product you already own.

Clippy

2025-09-02T20:32:23Z

Clippy is a virtual office assistant from Microsoft, shipped from office 97 to office 2003. It was used to help train people how to use the software that was becoming commonplace at the time. Before this era most people probably never had a reason to touch a computer.

As AI assistants are taking over everything in 2025, Clippy is standing as a mascot of a better time. Was Clippy perfect no. Could you turn him off, yes. Did he send your data to back to M$, no. Did he try to sell you something that you didn’t ask for, no. Did he try to up charge you for something you already own, no. Clippy just wanted to help, that’s all he knew, that’s all that he was designed to do. There was no malicious intent in Clippy.

Here is a quote from Louis Rossmann

Clippy didn’t sick an virtual dog on you that followed you everywhere you went, logged your personal communications, and reported them to the police, and to the guys that wanted to protect the children, Clippy just wanted to help, Clippy protected the children too, while protecting their privacy.

Self Host

2025-08-05T19:06:45Z

Self hosting is the act of hosting your own applications and services without using a SAS provider. This is typically done with your own hardware, but there is no shame for using a cloud vendor to host your own services. These services typically come in the form of a web app, file share, or game server.

Vibe Coding

2025-08-05T10:54:58Z

A coding style popularized in 2025. It is the act of using LLMs to generate code for an application, but the author never looks at the output. The author does not likely care about the output code, but is looking for a certain result they can see. This technique is highly criticised for large projects, often the output is immediaately considered legacy code. Vibe coding has been proven effective for one off tasks that are not critical and the result can be easily verified.

The term was coined by karpathy in this tweet

Ai Slop

2025-08-05T10:51:39Z

AI slop is unwanted AI content, generally shared by someone who did not review the output and is considered highly offensive and rude.

Homelab

2025-08-02T15:02:50Z

A place to self host applications. For me this is primarily self built web applications, and applications for sharing files with my family. Techno Tim has a great starter - we are homelab

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Aur

2025-07-06T21:12:10Z

Arch User Repository, a collection of community maintained packages for archlinux.

Paru

2025-07-06T21:11:32Z

paru is a package manager for archlinux that installs packages from the AUR.

Virtual Environment

2025-07-06T13:36:02Z

Virtual Environment is term for a sandboxed environment commonly associated with the python programming language. If you are installing any sort of python library you want it in a virtual environment, you do not want it in your system causing conflicts with system level environment.

Htmx

2025-07-05T19:25:11Z

htmx is a frontend javascript library for creating dynamic web applications.