- wikipedia.org: Laughtivism
[use of humor and mocking by nonviolent movements to undermine the authority of an opponent]
- talk.commonmark.org: ⚠️ GitHub is beta testing their own Admonition syntax. We should weigh in
[discussion from 2022-May to 2024-December]
- xkcd.com: xkcd 936: Password Strength
[correct horse battery staple]
- atoponce.github.io: Online Passphrase and Password Generator by Aaron Toponce
[“Never trust online password generators, including this one.”]
- 🌟 differencebetween.com: Compare the Difference Between Similar Terms
[requires Javascript & human verification :(] - wikipedia.org: Passphrase
[like a password but longer & easier to remember]
- leta.mullvad.net: Mullvad Leta
[privacy-focused meta search engine, leta means look in Swedish]
- wikipedia.org: Freemium
- johnvervaeke.com: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
[50-part lecture series by John Vervaeke]
- wikipedia.org: Self-dealing
- urbandictionary.com: SDE
[“small dick energy”]
- wikipedia.org: Address bar
[aka location bar, URL bar, omnibox]
- wikipedia.org: Dragon (zodiac)
[Year of the Dragon, 2024-February-10 to 2025-January-28]
- wikipedia.org: Net income
- wikipedia.org: Binary file
[as opposed to a text file]
- wikipedia.org: Private equity
- wikipedia.org: Venture capital
- wikipedia.org: Knowledge management
[KM]
- 🌟 breckyunits.com: Breck’s Blog
[interesting looking blog] - wikipedia.org: 5G
[fifth-generation standard for cellular networks]
- wikipedia.org: Coleman Hughes
[“anti-conformist of anti-racism”]
- wikipedia.org: Information wants to be free
[discusses gratis vs libre, and more]
- wikipedia.org: Whitespace character
- wikipedia.org: Hallucination (artificial intelligence)
[aka “artificial hallucination” or “confabulation” or “delusion”]
- github.com: Use “method” instead of “variable” for methods · Issue #2196 · gohugoio/hugoDocs
- wikipedia.org: Usenet newsgroup
[also known as simply “newsgroup”]
- tbray.org: ongoing by Tim Bray · Modern Mono
- wikipedia.org: Zalgo text
[Unicode glitch art]
- blog.codinghorror.com: Sorting for Humans : Natural Sort Order
[“ASCIIbetical does not equal alphabetical”]
- wikipedia.org: Dark pattern
[aka “deceptive design pattern”]
- wikipedia.org: Metacharacter
- practicaltypography.com: One space between sentences | Butterick’s Practical Typography
- wikipedia.org: Diceware
- danielmiessler.com: The Real Difference Between a URL and a URI
[if the protocol is given or implied you should probably use “URL”]
- wikipedia.org: Personal data
[personally identifiable information (PII)]
- wikipedia.org: EPUB
[“electronic publication” format used by Zotero & others]
- metafilter.com: Enshittification (and some deshittification) of note-taking software
- ratfactor.com: Forth: The programming language that writes itself
[When I was a wee programmer, I would sit around the virtual Usenet campfires…]
- lobste.rs: Transpiler, a meaningless word
[or maybe not]
- news.ycombinator.com: Transpiler, a Meaningless Word
[or maybe not]
- rachit.pl: Rachit Nigam | Transpiler, a meaningless word
[PhD Student fights the good fight]
- wikipedia.org: InterPlanetary File System - Wikipedia
[IPFS]
- gohugo.io: Glossary of terms
- merriam-webster.com: Initialism Definition & Meaning
[includes “What is the difference between the words acronym and initialism?”]
- wikipedia.org: Executable
[an “executable” is sometimes called a “binary”]
- addyosmani.com: Write about what you learn. It pushes you to understand topics better.
- lrb.co.uk: Patricia Lockwood · Where be your jibes now? David Foster Wallace · LRB 13 July 2023
- stackoverflow.com: Whats the difference between a scheme and a protocol in a URL?
- wikipedia.org: WordPad
[free/gratis, supports .doc, .docx, .odt, .rtf, and .txt]
- wikipedia.org: Master/slave (technology)
[includes “Terminology concerns”]
- docs.kde.org: The Kate Handbook
- wikipedia.org: Static site generator
[SSG]
- cnn.com: It’s settled! Creator tells us how to pronounce ‘GIF’
[GIF creator: It’s pronounced “JIF”]
- kate-editor.org: Kate - Get an Edge in Editing
- wikipedia.org: Pronunciation of GIF
- punctuationmatters.com: How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen (also ndash, mdash)
- wikipedia.org: Don’t repeat yourself
[DRY]
- howtogeek.com: What Is a “Stan,” and Where Does the Name Come From?
[stalking fan]
- news.ycombinator.com: Minimum Viable Hugo
[discussion about Hugo docs and more]
- github.com: ikatyang/emoji-cheat-sheet: Markdown version of Emoji Cheat Sheet
[automatically generated from GitHub Emoji API and Unicode Full Emoji List]
- stackoverflow.com: terminology - Exactly what is a “third party”? (And who are the first and second party?)
- wikipedia.org: Clockwise
- wikipedia.org: Version control
- urbandictionary.com: note to self
- martinfowler.com: TwoHardThings
- wikipedia.org: Out-of-box experience
[OOBE]
- arstechnica.com: How the Bible and YouTube are fueling the next frontier of password cracking
by Dan Goodin
- news.ycombinator.com: Ask HN: Do you still buy physical tech books like “Learn Rust” or “Learn Go”?
- rempe.us: Diceware Secure Passphrase and Password Generator
- wikipedia.org: Diceware
- wikipedia.org: Binary prefix
[about KiB, MiB, GiB, and more]
- wikipedia.org: Pleonasm
- bastian.rieck.me: We Are All Nerds: The Literary Works of Neal Stephenson
- wikipedia.org: Plain text
- docusaurus.io: Build optimized websites quickly, focus on your content
- github.com: hemanth/functional-programming-jargon: Jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms!
- seandietrich.com: Mendon, Missouri - Sean of the South
- 🌟 seandietrich.com: Sean of the South
- news.ycombinator.com: Ask HN: How to level up your technical writing?
- medium.com: Tech Companies and the Long Tradition of Lying About Encryption | by SpiderOak
- wikipedia.org: Ikigai
[Japanese concept referring to something that gives a person a sense of purpose, a reason for living.]
- wikipedia.org: Array slicing
- git-scm.com: Pro Git by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub
- news.lettersofnote.com: I would like to be paid like a plumber: Pitching Nirvana [letter by Steve Albini, article by Shaun Usher]
- news.ycombinator.com: Mozilla and Open Web Docs Working Together on MDN | Hacker News
- news.ycombinator.com: Zotero 6
- wikipedia.org: Microblogging
- discourse.gohugo.io: Hacker News is discussing Hugos documentation, pain points
- sagar.se: Why Hugo’s documentation sucks - Sagar Behere
- wikipedia.org: List of emoticons
- metafilter.com: twosday | MetaFilter
- stackoverflow.com: uri - So what IS the right direction of the path's slash (/ or \) under Windows?
- wiki2.org: WIKI 2. Wikipedia Republished
- wikipedia.org: Desktop metaphor
- wikipedia.org: Super key (keyboard button)
- urbandictionary.com: TIL [Today I Learned]
- faqs.org: RFC 1983 - Internet Users’ Glossary
- wikipedia.org: Camel case🐫
- merriam-webster.com: Alphanumeric Definition & Meaning
- quoteinvestigator.com: Be the Change You Wish To See in the World
- statsandr.com: Why do I have a data science blog? 7 benefits of sharing your code
- wikipedia.org: Meta
- merriam-webster.com: New Dictionary Words | October 2021
- metafilter.com: Uh oh | MetaFilter
- wikipedia.org: Cloud computing
- wikipedia.org: Clean URL
- docs.github.com: Fork a repo
- kieranhealy.org: What Happened? [published 2021-Jan-8 about Jan-6]
- dailydot.com: Wikipedia Endowment: The Site Is Rich. Why Is It Fundraising?
- news.ycombinator.com: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? | Hacker News
- newyorker.com: What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now by Salman Rushdie (2019-June-13)
- theatlantic.com: Drinking Too Much Is an American Problem
- ask.metafilter.com: Words coined to be opposites of existing words - etymology antonym antonyms
- lorcandempsey.net: Some thoughts about egos, objects, and social networks …
- virtualcanuck.ca: Ego, object-centric or adhoc educational social software?
- doctorow.medium.com: The Memex Method. When your commonplace book is a public database | by Cory Doctorow | May, 2021
- gnu.org: FLOSS and FOSS
- alvinalexander.com: Posts in the ‘zen’ category
- alvinalexander.com: Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 1)
- editorconfig.org: EditorConfig
- sembr.org: Semantic Line Breaks
- wikipedia.org: Shim (computing)
- wiktionary.org: intertwingle
- merriam-webster.com: We ♥ the Verb ‘Heart’
- wikipedia.org: In the Beginning… Was the Command Line
- 🌟 iwantapresident.wordpress.com: The original text by Zoe Leonard | I want a president…
- theguardian.com: Patti Smith: ‘I feel the unrest of the world in the pit of my stomach’
- 🌟 merriam-webster.com: Word of the Day
- books.google.com: Google Ngram Viewer
- ell.stackexchange.com: singular vs plural - zero, zeros or zeroes? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
- websters1913.com: Webster’s 1913
- wikipedia.org: Webster’s Dictionary
- github.com/dmyates: technical-writing/resources.md
- merriam-webster.com: evergreen
- metafilter.com: What a soul-crushing way to kick-off the week-end
- merriam-webster.com: Emoji
- rfc-editor.org: RFC 1983: Internet Users’ Glossary
- urbandictionary.com: fuckeulogy