Booting Up
Phrase · Hacker Culture
Definitions
A casual way of describing the process of getting mentally or operationally ready to start work, borrowed from how a computer boots into an active state. In tech culture it often refers to the first coffee, first terminal window, and first check of messages or dashboards at the start of the day.
In plain English: A joking tech way to say you are waking up and getting ready to work.
Example: "Give me ten minutes to boot up before we dive into incident review."