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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Software terms that sound like insults: - scrum master - git - scope creep - WIMP - CRUD

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gerbumbrate @azzione.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

SME

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digibo @digi.bo · 10/04/2025

- grep - linter - WAMP

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Karen VH @designinginward.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

FUD

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Just a Raccoon @malevolentmango.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The first three definitely are, the jury is still out on the last two

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 10/04/2025

While I won't be dragged into an argument about pronunciation (the answer is always: let the user say it first and follow their lead), I have always thought "chmod" looked like an insult.

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 19/04/2025

Garbage collector

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

It just demonstrates the degree of tech's perversion that scrum master is a position of respect, while in the real world if you called someone that you'd be picking up teeth from the floor of the bar

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Jane Spane @janespane.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Kerberos Sidecar will be the name of my comic book villain.

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

same vibe as Victorian London waste disposal worker terms. Also: bunters, toshers, mudlarks, pure-finders

By the nineteenth century, the night-soil men had evolved a precise choreography for their labors. They worked the graveyard shift, between midnight and five a.m., in teams of four: a "ropeman," a
"holeman," and two "tubmen." The team would affix lanterns at the edge of the cesspit, then remove the floorboards or stone covering it, sometimes with a pickax. If the waste had accumulated high enough, the ropeman and holeman would begin by scooping it out with the tub. Eventually, as more night soil was removed, the men

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Robert G. Reeve @robertgreeve.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I recently learned about YAML and was kind of delighted that the acronym sounded as unserious as what it stood for

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⚛ 🍁K NomDePlume 🍍🍕 @kevinski.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Reminds me of one time in the mid-90s when I was ogling the Macs. I asked the guy about hooking up my camera and he said I'd need a dongle... Yes I know what a dongle is NOW. But at the time I was just a teen in the 90s and I scoffed at him for making up words. Like a whosit or a thingamajig.

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technically john @jhnrbk.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Learning of CRUD recently made me very happy

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Anna Willoughby @akw.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Git to gittin!!! (What my Indiana ass yells at my dog when she's in the way)

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