If DEV were an acronym, what would it stand for?
Ben Halpern
Aug 3
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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
:wqβ: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! π
That's so good, sir :D.
You canβt exit ViM, why ask not to do it?
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.
Vim is the Hotel California of editors.
I would say Do Explore Vim! I love Vim :)
Developers Engaging Virtually
or
Developers Exchanging Value
The second one feels a bit too business-y to me though...
So... DEV Engaging Virtually? π
GNU style recursion? β€οΈ
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.
π
Define Every Variable
Digitally
Empowered
Visionaries
This one deserves the prize so far.
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!
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).
1st one
π»ππ§πππ π‘ππ£π€ === πππ!
Explanation
π» evelopers
πΌ qual
Win(a synonym forπ ictory).
Kinda stretching the meaning here π
2nd one
π»π π'π₯ πΌπ§ππ£ ππ πππ₯
Explanation
Make sure you hold it after having a few drinks π₯ at a conference/meetup.
Please be respectful of others π
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! π
Developers Enthusiastically Venting
Deal with Everyone Virtually
Damn! Everything Vorks?
in any case, this acronym should be recursive.
Delivering Excellent Value
Dancing Eddie Vedder
Double-Expletive Variable
Developers Exchanging visions
Donkeys Eating Verdure
Danger! Emacs! Vim!
A couple that popped into my head real quick.
Delivering Enhanced Visions π
dev.to = Deploying Everyday Value . To Order
Maybe you need to spice up your lunch with some
Dumb Electric Veggies.A few more:
Dead Earth = VacuumDire Enlightenment VariesDevelopers: Empowered Versions!
Doesn't Even Vacation
discussion exec --verbose
These are awesome! π ok lets see.... π€
Developers
Encapsulating
Victories
Or ...π€
Desire
Exhilaration (and)
Virtue
Developers Excelling Vertically?
Developer Enabling Virtues
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)
Do
Every
VeryVeryGoodThing
Debbuging... Enable Verbosity
Define Every Virtue
Deliver Everybody's Vans
Don't Eat Venison?
Delivering Exciting Vision
Doing Everything Visually
Delivering Educational Videos
Did Everyone Vanish
Serious: Developers Exchanging Value
Hilarious: Unit Tests Passed
Developing Exhaustingly with Volition
Devs eat vegetables.
Draft Et View
Drink, Eat, VIM
Delightful. Educational. Versatile.
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