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Web Development Acronyms, Honestly Explained
WebDev Post #4256, on Feb 28, 2022 in TG

Web Development Acronyms, Honestly Explained

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A hand-drawn style list on a white background, titled 'Web Development Acronyms: A Convenient Reference List'. In the top right corner, a circle contains the text 'Math with Bad Drawings'. The main content is a list of common web development acronyms, each followed by a humorous, incorrect, and informal definition. For example, 'CSS' is defined as 'Cascading Something Something', 'HTTP' as 'Hyper Text Thingy Protocol', 'HTML' as 'Hyper Text (Mumble) Language', 'JSON' as 'Javascript's Son', and 'CSV' as 'Excel File That Was Saved Weird'. The meme humorously captures the developer experience of understanding a concept's function so well that its formal name becomes a vague, distant memory. It's a relatable joke for developers at all levels who recognize the absurdity of the industry's reliance on jargon and acronyms, highlighting the gap between practical knowledge and textbook definitions

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Let's be honest, after your first year as a developer, the only reason you know the real acronyms is for interviews. In production, 'File Thingamabob Process' is a perfectly acceptable name for FTP
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Let's be honest, after your first year as a developer, the only reason you know the real acronyms is for interviews. In production, 'File Thingamabob Process' is a perfectly acceptable name for FTP

  2. Anonymous

    I can recite CAP theorem in haiku, but when a junior asks what CSS stands for I mumble “Cascading… Something… Something” - apparently my brain’s LRU cache evicts acronym expansions first

  3. Anonymous

    After 15 years of explaining to executives why HTTPS is important, I've finally found the perfect definition: 'HTTP but Special.' It captures both the technical complexity of TLS handshakes and certificate chains, and the resigned simplicity we resort to when the CEO asks 'but why do we need the S?' for the hundredth time

  4. Anonymous

    Fifteen years in and I still call JSON 'JavaScript's son' - I can parse it, stringify it, and debug it, but expanding the acronym remains an unhandled exception

  5. Anonymous

    This is what happens when you ask a PM to explain the tech stack to stakeholders - technically not wrong, but also not quite right. The 'Hyper Text (Mumble) Language' perfectly captures that moment in architecture reviews when someone realizes they can't actually remember what the 'M' in HTML stands for, and 'JavaScript's Son' is uncomfortably close to how we all feel about JSON's relationship to its parent language. The real genius is 'The Domcument' - because we've all had that typo in production code that somehow passed code review

  6. Anonymous

    Senior dev heuristic: when the glossary defines DOM as 'the domcument,' your data platform is probably CSV-over-HTTP, 'secured' by HTTPS-but-special, and maintained via tribal knowledge

  7. Anonymous

    After 20 years of web dev, this is precisely how 'DOM' registers in your brain during a 3PM context-switch haze

  8. Anonymous

    After enough incidents, the expansions don’t matter - only the failure modes: CSS = Cascading Side‑effects Surprise, HTTPS = Hope The Proxy Survives, and CSV = Causes Saturday Visits

  9. @RiedleroD 4y

    These ones I know: Cascading Style Sheet Hyper Text Transfer Protocol -||- but secure Hyper Text Markup Language dunno Unified Resource Locator JavaScript Object Notation Portable Network Graphics Scalable Vector Graphics File Transfer Protocol Software Development Kit Something Query Language (structured - as it seems) no idea

    1. @RiedleroD 4y

      also why are SDK and CSV Webdev acronyms?

    2. @sylfn 4y

      document object model

    3. @sylfn 4y

      idk too for sql

    4. @sylfn 4y

      csv is comma separated values

      1. @sylfn 4y

        and csv separator is not fixed, it can be any character

    5. @callofvoid0 4y

      dom: document object model

    6. @callofvoid0 4y

      comma seperated values

  10. @prirai 4y

    Nothing left to expand then it seems

  11. @RiedleroD 4y

    same to the last part

  12. @azizhakberdiev 4y

    JSON is actually pronounced as jason

    1. @callofvoid0 4y

      maybe jay sen

  13. @Winklnix 4y

    Json Statham (bad joke)

  14. @azizhakberdiev 4y

    SQL - Structured Query Language

  15. @azizhakberdiev 4y

    What JPG/JPEG stands for? Joking Pictures Graphics/ Joking Pictures Enother Graphics?

    1. @Dobreposhka 4y

      yeah

    2. @RiedleroD 4y

      joint picture expert group. it's the name of the group and the file format

    3. @callofvoid0 4y

      jacked off people graphics

  16. @Vanilla_Danette 4y

    Am I the only one reading Domcument as Dom,cum,ent? 🥲

    1. @azizhakberdiev 4y

      I think same with document also

      1. @Vanilla_Danette 4y

        Lmao

  17. @callofvoid0 4y

    and then ?

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