Glossary
A list of glossary items used on this site with my Jekyll plugin jekyll-glossary_tooltip.
Glossary Terms
- 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.
- 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.
- Liquid Tag
- Programming logic tags for the Liquid template language from Shopify.
- Middle Way
- (Skt. madhyamapratipad; Pali. majjhimapaṭipadā) A teaching to avoid extreme views, most often applied to the question of existence: nihilism vs eternalism.
- POSIX
- Portable Operating System Interface - a standard for Unix-like systems.
- PoC
- Proof of Concept - trying out an idea for feasibility to evaluate the practical usefulness
- REST
- Representational state transfer - as of today the most common way to build inter-service or client-facing APIs. Leveraging the HTTP infrastructure.
- 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
- VCS
- Version Control System
- ZFS
- A well honored filesystem and volume manager popular on BSD-derived operating systems.
- cron
- A Unix tool (standard) for scheduling background jobs.
- nirvāṇa
- (Skt. nirvāṇa; Pali. nibbāna) The state of liberation from samsara, the end of suffering.
- 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
- Cyclic existence.
- tmux
- terminal multiplexor
- trilakṣaṇa
- (Skt. 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.