Idiom Glossary
Browse 5 idiom terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
5 Idiom Terms
- Dogfooding
- The practice of a company using its own products internally before releasing them to customers. Derived from the aphorism 'eating your own dog food.'
- Rage Quit
- To abruptly leave a session, project, or job out of pure frustration. Originally from gaming, now used when a developer dramatically closes their laptop after...
- Shaving the Yak
- The verb form of yak shaving — to be in the process of completing a seemingly unrelated prerequisite task that is multiple steps removed from your actual...
- Yak Shave
- A single prerequisite task in a yak-shaving chain. 'Updating the SSL cert was a four-yak-shave just to fix the login bug.'
- Yak Shaving
- Yak Shaving describes the phenomenon of performing a seemingly endless series of small, seemingly unrelated tasks that are prerequisites for the actual task...
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