Meme Glossary

Browse 10 meme terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

10 Meme Terms

Blazing Fast
An overused marketing phrase in developer tool READMEs and landing pages claiming exceptional performance, often without benchmarks. Has become a meme because...
Copypasta
Copypasta is internet slang for a block of text that is copied and pasted repeatedly across online forums, social media, chat rooms, and comment sections. The...
It's Always DNS
It's Always DNS is a running joke in the IT and DevOps community expressing the observation that a surprisingly large proportion of mysterious network...
It Works On My Machine
The classic developer defense when a bug can't be reproduced locally. Highlights the gap between development and production environments. The entire...
NPC (internet slang)
Borrowed from gaming terminology for Non-Player Characters, the internet slang usage describes a person perceived as lacking independent thought, blindly...
Rickroll
A bait-and-switch prank in which a disguised link redirects to Rick Astley's 1987 music video 'Never Gonna Give You Up.' One of the internet's most enduring...
Ship It Squirrel
A meme originating from GitHub's Campfire chat featuring a squirrel wearing a pilot's helmet, posted in code reviews to signal 'looks good, let's deploy.' The...
sigma grindset
Originally a sincere concept from online masculinity discourse describing a 'lone wolf' male archetype who rejects social hierarchies and focuses obsessively...
Soy Dev
Internet slang (often pejorative) for a developer who enthusiastically adopts trendy frameworks, tools, and practices without critical evaluation. Contrasts...
touch grass
A dismissive retort telling someone to go outside and reconnect with the physical world, implying they are excessively invested in online discourse or...

Related Topics