The language of silicon dreams and stack overflows.
A live-streaming platform owned by Amazon where content creators broadcast gameplay, entertainment, music, and other live content to viewers in real time, with interactive features like chat and emotes.
An early web search engine launched in 1995 that was one of the first to index a large portion of the internet; it was a dominant search tool during the late 1990s before being surpassed by Google.
A high-performance automobile, typically American-made, featuring a large-displacement engine, rear-wheel drive, and a mid-sized body designed for straight-line speed and acceleration rather than handling or luxury.
A thin horizontal slice of something stacked upon others—nature's way of showing that even mountains and cakes follow the 'one more thing' principle. In tech and data, it's a conceptual level in a hierarchy where different stuff lives. Each layer is basically its own universe until you zoom out and realize it's just another sandwich.
A status update nobody wants—when something is no longer burning, no longer exists, or has been completely phased out. Whether it's a species, a trend, or last year's tech stack, extinction is permanent and usually not your fault.
Alternating Current versus Direct Current—the electrical engineering fundamentals that make modern power systems work. Also coincidentally the name of the world's greatest rock band, but that's unrelated.
A complete restoration of a device (computer, phone, etc.) to its factory default settings, erasing all user data and configurations. Unlike a soft reset, a hard reset removes everything and requires reconfiguration from scratch.
A cloud-based messaging and collaboration platform for teams, combining chat channels, direct messaging, and integrations with other work tools. It's widely used in corporate environments to centralize communication and reduce email clutter.
A peer-to-peer file-sharing program that was popular in the early 2000s for downloading and distributing music, movies, and software, often associated with copyright infringement.
A portable external storage device that could hold 100 MB to 750 MB of data, widely used in the 1990s and early 2000s before USB flash drives became standard. Zip disks were square and slightly larger than floppy disks.
To deliberately make something unclear, obscure, or difficult to understand by concealing or complicating it. It can refer to intentionally confusing language, logic, or code to hide meaning or intent.
The act or process of deliberately making something unclear, obscure, or difficult to understand; intentional confusion used to hide meaning or intent. Commonly applied to code, writing, or explanations designed to mislead or conceal.
A telecommunications feature that displays the phone number (and sometimes the name) of an incoming caller on a device or screen before the call is answered. It allows recipients to identify who is calling before they pick up.
An electronic device that scans, encodes, and transmits images of documents over telephone lines to another fax machine, which then prints a physical copy at the receiving end. It was essential for document transfer before email became ubiquitous.
A mathematical fancy way of saying 'something with both size AND direction'—basically the GPS coordinates of ambition. Unlike a regular number that only tells you how much, vectors are overachievers that also tell you where it's going. Think of it as the difference between knowing you have 5 units of sass versus knowing those 5 units of sass are headed directly toward your boss.
Film scoring technique where music perfectly syncs with on-screen action, creating that exaggerated cartoon-like effect where every movement gets its own musical punch. Think less Scorsese, more Looney Tunes—but ironically used in serious films for comedic or dramatic impact.
A notoriously lazy developer known for churning out low-effort cash grab games with minimal quality or care. The human embodiment of 'I'm just here for the money,' allegedly with the coding skills of an 11-year-old.
A digital window into the soul of your operation—whether it's a screen staring back at you or a vigilant guardian watching your metrics like a paranoid hawk. In tech, it's the device that lets you see what your computer is doing; in business, it's the person doing the watching.
A sudden, dramatic jump or advance, especially one that seems disproportionately large compared to incremental progress; originating from physics, where it describes an electron jumping between energy levels without occupying intermediate states. Used colloquially to mean a breakthrough or transformative shift in any field.
A brand of digital media player and streaming device that connects to televisions to access streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video. Roku is also a platform for streaming channels and apps.
Lasting only a short time; temporary or impermanent. Can describe something that appears briefly or passes through without staying, or in physics, a temporary oscillation or disturbance in a system.
A small piece or extract of something, often code, text, or media, that is brief and self-contained. In programming, snippets are reusable chunks of code saved for quick insertion into larger projects.
A thick directory published annually listing residential and business telephone numbers organized alphabetically by name and location. Before the internet, phone books were an essential reference tool delivered to every household.
A digital image captured of whatever is currently displayed on a device's screen, typically used to save, share, or document on-screen content. A key tool for sharing messages, posts, or evidence across social media.