Have you ever been in a situation where a colleague, speaker or organizer in the tech industry used an acronym as if everyone knew what it meant? Did you feel like you were the only one who wasn't in the know because you didn't know what it meant?
Yeah, I've been in that situation far too many times. Although I've been in the tech industry for many years, there has been many times where I didn't know what an acronym meant. Heck I still run into acronyms to this day that still puzzle me.
It's for this reason I created Spell It Out. A site that spells out acronyms, abbreviations and word shortenings often used in the tech industry.
Would love for the dev community to check it out and if there are any abbreviations you see missing from the glossary, suggest it in the comments below or on the site's form :)
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Hell yeah! This is awesome! Love the simplicity it.
Would love an autocomplete search if that's not asking for too much?
Thanks @andy ! It is definitely on the list of things to add :)
Thanks for checking it out. Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see or any acronyms I'm missing.
Hmm how about REPL and REST? I'm sure I have more but I can't think of any right now...
Boom! Added REPL and REST. Thanks for the suggestions :)
Ohhh man, I love this so much!
Thanks Jess!!! Please let me know if there’s anything I can do to make it better.
THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU! This will be great.
Can you possibly replace that animation on the front page with an actual webform that automatically searches your glossary? (Mess with the JS a little bit, and you can probably still have it animate like that until someone clicks it.)
Great suggestion Jason! Will look into that tonight.
Great work man!
Thanks!
PWA
SPA
SLA
Come to mind
These are great! Thanks Ben 👍
Love this!
Thanks Kristian!
During one team meeting, the boss declared that we could not use any acronyms for the duration of the meeting. That was a hard meeting.
Nice! Do you know why your boss made that decision and was there a positive outcome from it?
If I recall correctly, it was around the time we'd just hired a new dev. Most of the acronyms we use are in reference to the websites we manage, so it was for clarity's sake. Once the new guy was used to the names, we reverted to using acronyms again. :)
I’d love to have soundbites for each one. I remember saying pee-and-gee for png files until I finally heard someone say Ping. Same goes for mysql, regex, etc.
That is a really good idea Alfredo :) Will keep this one in mind.
Awesome contribution, thank you!
You can add SOLID (Single responsibility, Open-closed, Liskov substitution, Interface segregation and Dependency inversion) and DDD (Domain-Driven Design)
Thanks Gustavo! Added SOLID and DDD :)
Good work!
Thanks Mark!