Glossary
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- anapanasati
- (Skt: anapanasmrti) a meditation practice also known as mindfulness of breathing. It is a form of śamatha meditation.
- anicca
- (Skt. anityatā) The first of the three marks of existence, meaning impermanence. Everything is in a constant state of flux.
- anātman
- (Pali: anattā) The doctrine of non-self, which states that there is no permanent, unchanging self or soul in living beings. This is one of the three marks of existence.
- Arch
- Probably the best Linux distribution you can get.
- BFS
- Breath-First Search
- Brtfs
- A Linux native file system with features like copy-on-write and easy logical volume management.
- Buddhism
- Buddhism is definitely not what you think, in two ways: 1) it takes years of practice with study to develop insights into what it really is and 2) [literally] it's in the end not something you think about, not an intellectual exercise, but something you experience. Nevertheless, start learning more here:
- CFD
- Cumulative Flow Diagram - gives for a project a quick overview of total progress over time.
- CICD
- Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - methodology and development process automation.
- COW
- Copy-on-write is a space-efficient storage management technique where copies are made in a soft fashion and only the diff from the source is recorded.
- cron
- A Unix tool (standard) for scheduling background jobs.
- DFS
- Depth-First Search
- DRY
- Don't repeat yourself - a software development principle
- Dukkha
- (Skt. duḥkha; Pali. dukkha) Most extremely meaning suffering, but has many degrees of unsatisfactoriness, an experience of ill-fitting experienced in different ways.
- EXIF
- Exchangeable Image File Format
- Jamstack
- JavaScript + API + Markup - a way of building and hosting websites.
- Jekyll
- A Static Site Generator (SSG) built with ruby. Popularized as of its adoption in GitHub Pages.
- kuśala
- (Pali: kusala) The Buddhist term for wholesome or skillful actions, as performed with body, speech and mind which lead to positive results.
- Liquid Tag
- Programming logic tags for the Liquid template language from Shopify.
- majjhimāpaṭipadā
- (Skt: Madhyamāpratipada) The Middle Way, a central teaching of the Buddha that avoids extreme views and practices. The two most important being: self-indulgence vs self-mortification, eternalism vs nihilism.
- nirvāṇa
- (Pali. nibbāna) The state of liberation from samsara, the end of suffering.
- PoC
- Proof of Concept - trying out an idea for feasibility to evaluate the practical usefulness
- POSIX
- Portable Operating System Interface - a standard for Unix-like systems.
- pratītyasamutpāda
- (Pali: paṭiccasamuppāda) The principle of dependent origination, which states that all phenomena arise in dependence on other phenomena. This is the most central concept in Buddhism.
- REST
- Representational state transfer - as of today the most common way to build inter-service or client-facing APIs. Leveraging the HTTP infrastructure.
- restic
- A remote backup CLI program that excels in effectiveness, security, flexibility and portability.
- rot13
- A text encoding scheme where you simply rotate the English alphabet 13 letters to the right.
- samsara
- The endless cyclic existence of birth, death, and rebirth.
- SSG
- A Static Site Generator compiles the website before deployment. Then the generated web content is simply retrieved as-is by the client without any code running at retrieve time.
- TDD
- Test-Driven Development
- Theravāda
- The oldest surviving school of Buddhism, which is based on the Pali Canon and is prevalent in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia.
- tmux
- terminal multiplexor
- trilakṣaṇa
- (Pali. tilakkhaṇa) The three marks of conditioned existence in samsara: Anicca (impermanence), Dukkha (suffering, dissatisfaction), Anatta (not-self, insubstantiality).
- triviṣa
- (Skt. triviṣa; Pali. tivisa) The three mental poisons that drive our unwholesome actions: greed, hatred and ignorance.
- upekkhā
- (Skt: upekṣā) a state of equanimity, a mental state of balance and non-reactivity.
- VCS
- Version Control System
- vedanā
- The Pali word for feeling, sensation or perception. It is positive, neutral or negative and is one of the five aggregates (skandhas) in Buddhism.
- ZFS
- A well honored filesystem and volume manager popular on BSD-derived operating systems.
- śamatha
- Tranquility and calm-abiding meditations. One of two main meditation categories in Buddhism, the other being vipassanā. śamatha practices produce effects of calming the mind and develops concentration.