If DEV were an acronym, what would it stand for?
Ben Halpern
Aug 3 '18
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Do Everything Vetter
Don't Exit Vim
Don't Exit Vim has got to be my favourite so far.
Pro tip: ESC + :wq = exit vimTo be fair, any reference to Vim being hard to quit is always a cheap win.
As a regular vim user, the cheapest win for me is emacs.
Another other pro tip, that's bound to just
ZZ, withough a colon.Another pro tip! There is a shortcut for
:wq—:xAnother pro tip for regex:
I'll use something similar when I rebase (to squash) a series of commits in a git repo (vim's my editor for Git). If when presented with the list of commits you do:
You'll squash all commits into a single commit in one fell swoop.
I'll buy that! 😂
That's so good, sir :D.
I would say Do Explore Vim! I love Vim :)
You can’t exit ViM, why ask not to do it?
Vim is the Hotel California of editors.
Well, if the acronym would have been CEV, I could have said Can't Exit Vim; and Don't (know how to) Exit Vim seemed too far fetched, so Don't Exit Vim is the closest to what I wanted to say I could think of.
Developers, dEvelopers, deVelopers!
Okay, this one is my favorite so far!
Silly variant: Developers Evelopers Velopers
This is actually what ballmer says near the end of it, LOL
AWESOME! 😂
Developers Engaging Virtually
or
Developers Exchanging Value
The second one feels a bit too business-y to me though...
So... DEV Engaging Virtually? 😈
GNU style recursion? ❤️
Lots of F/OSS's uses Recursive acronymies. e.g: WINE, GNU, BIRD, cURL, PIP (Python's pkg manager)...
Yeah, YAML too. it's just that GNU's the most popular and recognizable example.
The first is the best one to me!
Make sure you have spaces between each word for the latter.
😉
Digitally
Empowered
Visionaries
This one deserves the prize so far.
Define Every Variable
Deprecating Every Vocation
Discussions, Entertainment and Visions
developers emitting vomit
do evade viruses
works on my machine
NPM has prepared me...
Don't Evaluate Void
Dinos Expanding Vocabulary
Dust Excites Vacuums
Devs Explaining Vividly
Deploying Enterprise VMs
Disk E: Volume
Disproportionate Experience Vouchers
Doing EVerything
Developers Eating Views
Developers Encouraging Views
Developers Encouraging Values
Did Everybody View
Doesn't Entice Violence
Developer Encouraging Values
Developer Excited Values
Developer Excellence Vlogs
Dev Edited Vlogs
Does Everybody Vim
Indeed, everyone does!
1st one
𝔻𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕤 === 𝕎𝕚𝕟!
Explanation
𝔻 evelopers
𝔼 qual
Win(a synonym for𝕍 ictory).
Kinda stretching the meaning here 😝
2nd one
𝔻𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝔼𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕍𝕠𝕞𝕚𝕥
Explanation
Make sure you hold it after having a few drinks 🥃 at a conference/meetup.
Please be respectful of others 🙇
Developers, Entrepreneurs, and Velociraptors
Any mention of velociraptors is worth a thumbs-up!
I need to start putting "velociraptor(s)" in any presentations that I'd normally put "velocity" into: see if the PHBs notice it or not (or at least mention it).
Developers Enthusiastically Venting
Deal with Everyone Virtually
Damn! Everything Vorks?
dev.to = Deploying Everyday Value . To Order
Delivering Excellent Value
Donkeys Eating Verdure
discussion exec --verbose
in any case, this acronym should be recursive.
Dancing Eddie Vedder
Double-Expletive Variable
Developers Exchanging visions
A couple that popped into my head real quick.
Developers: Empowered Versions!
Doesn't Even Vacation
Delivering Enhanced Visions 😛
Maybe you need to spice up your lunch with some
Dumb Electric Veggies.A few more:
Dead Earth = VacuumDire Enlightenment VariesDanger! Emacs! Vim!
Darth Earth Vader
Delivering Exciting Vision
Doing Everything Visually
Delivering Educational Videos
Did Everyone Vanish
Developer Enabling Virtues
Dev, Evolving, Voice
Debug Everything Virtuoso
Doing Extreme Validations
Don't Expect Violence
Do Expect Virtue
Deny Every Vulnerability
Do Eat Vegetables
Derive Each Vector
Do Explain Vows
...
(feels like the npm acronym, should be a git so we could make some fun with random pick the list as the website base-line)
Delightful. Educational. Versatile.
DEV est via. ("DEV is the Way.")
Do
Every
VeryVeryGoodThing
Debbuging... Enable Verbosity
Define Every Virtue
Deliver Everybody's Vans
Don't Eat Venison?
Drink, Eat, VIM
Do, Evolve, Venture.
Devs eat vegetables.
Dummy Entertaining Viewers
Do Everything Virtually
These are awesome! 😂 ok lets see.... 🤔
Developers
Encapsulating
Victories
Or ...🤔
Desire
Exhilaration (and)
Virtue
Draft Et View
Developers Excelling Vertically?
Developing Exhaustingly with Volition
Serious: Developers Exchanging Value
Hilarious: Unit Tests Passed