Posts tagged: glossary

Git is a version control system for tracking changes in source code during software development. In the beginning there were many, some were licensed. As...

Starlette is a low level web framework for modern (as of 2025) async python development most famously used by FastAPI.

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard markup language used to create and design documents on the World Wide Web. It structures web content by...

"Clippy no Simpy" is a term coined by Louis Rossmann, when people try to stand up for companies doing scummy things like charging your for features that you...

Clippy is a virtual office assistant from Microsoft, shipped from office 97 to office 2003. It was used to help train people how to use the software that was...

Self hosting is the act of hosting your own applications and services without using a SAS provider. This is typically done with your own hardware, but there...

A coding style popularized in 2025. It is the act of using LLMs to generate code for an application, but the author never looks at the output. The author...

AI slop is unwanted AI content, generally shared by someone who did not review the output and is considered highly offensive and rude.

A place to self host applications. For me this is primarily self built web applications, and applications for sharing files with my family. Techno Tim has a...

Arch User Repository, a collection of community maintained packages for archlinux.

paru is a package manager for archlinux that installs packages from the AUR.

Virtual Environment is term for a sandboxed environment commonly associated with the python programming language. If you are installing any sort of python...

htmx is a frontend javascript library for creating dynamic web applications.