Shorthand Glossary
Browse 6 shorthand terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
6 Shorthand Terms
- Bikeshed
- Bikeshed is shorthand for an unimportant or trivial topic that receives disproportionate attention in group discussions, derived from Parkinson's Law of...
- Dogfood
- Dogfood, or dogfooding, is the practice of a company using its own products internally before or alongside releasing them to customers. The term comes from the...
- LGTM
- Looks Good To Me — the standard code review approval phrase, ranging in sincerity from 'I carefully reviewed every line' to 'I glanced at the diff for three...
- Refactor
- Verb form of refactoring. 'Let me refactor this.' In practice, can mean anything from renaming a variable to rewriting an entire module while insisting 'it's...
- Rubber Duck (slang)
- Used as a verb: 'I rubber-ducked the problem and found the bug.' Means to explain your code out loud to find the issue — whether to an actual duck, a...
- 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.'
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