d-edge / foss-acronyms

List of abbreviations used within the FOSS community, and their definitions and usages.

FOSS Community Acronyms

List of abbreviations used within the FOSS community, and their definitions and usages. This list inludes more common english acronyms popular on internet.

Maintained by folks at D-EDGE.

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Tip

Write out the full name when you want to introduce a term (with the acronym in brackets). Use only the acronym after this. Example:

Companies don’t usually talk about FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). Instead, they use phrases such as “shiny object syndrome” and “market expectations.” Google is a great example of how FOMO can creep in.

FOMO Is Disastrous for Company Strategies by Ruben Ugarte

If you are only going to use the acronym once, maybe don't use it at all and rely on the whole expression instead.

Acronyms

Abbreviation	Definition	Usage	Example
ACK	ACKnowledgement	Agreed/accepted change. A loose ACK can be confusing. It's best to avoid them unless it's a documentation/comment only change in which case there is nothing to test/verify; therefore the tested/untested distinction is not there	Humanizer, Bitcoin
AFAICT	As Far As I Can Tell		aiohttp
AFAIK	As Far As I Know	AFAIK, he will be away for three months.	Diffract
AOA	Analysis of Alternatives		/r/programming
ASAP	As Soon As Possible	It is an informal way to say that who wrote it is busy at the moment and will reply as soon as he can.	Britannica
BBL	Brown Bag Lunch	It is an informal training meeting usually performed during lunch. It is a nice way to share knowledge, train on technical, business or any kind of skills. The speaker does not have to be an expert of the topic.	brownbaglunch on Github (French)
CCW	Comment and Criticism Welcome
CLA	Contributor License Agreement		Play Framework, Microsoft
CLI	Command Line Interface	I prefer using the CLI because it is faster.	Wikipedia page for CLI
CMV	Change My View
CoC	Code of Conduct		Our Code of Conduct
Concept ACK	Concept ACKnowledgement	Agree with the idea and overall direction, but haven't reviewed the code changes or tested them	Bitcoin
DevOps	Devlopment Operations
DI/DIP	Dependency Inversion Principle	The higher-level orchestrating components should not have to know the details of their dependencies	Hacker Laws
DoD	Definition of Done	When all conditions, or acceptance criteria, that a software product must satisfy are met and ready to be accepted by a user, customer, team, or consuming system.	DEFINITION OF DONE
DRY	Don't Repeat Yourself	This is used in couple with modular programming, and emphasize on code reusability	Wikipedia
DTO	Data Transfer Object		DTO Wikipedia
DX	Developer Experience	Guidelines to make onboarding and development of a project easy to get into and maintain	Near (Github)
EBKAC	Error Between Keyboard And Chair	It's an error made by the human user of a complex system, usually a computer system, in interacting with it.	User error
ETA	Estimated Time of Arrival	To ask when something will be ready	/r/fsharp
FOMO	Fear Of Missing Out	The feeling of apprehension that one is either not in the know or missing out on information, events, experiences, or life decisions that could make one's life better	Hacker News
FOSS/FLOSS	Free & Open Source Software	That is both free software and open-source software where anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve the design of the software	FOSS/FLOSS
FOUC	Flash Of Unstyled Content	When a web page appears briefly with the browser's default styles prior to loading an external CSS stylesheet	md-block, Wikipedia
FP	Functional Programming
FYA	For Your Action	When you ask someone to do something usually on an email or correspondence
FYI	For Your Information		ArduPilot, F#'s slack
GUI	Graphical User Interface	The GUI makes it very simple for beginners to use	Wikipedia page for GUI
IANAL	I Am Not A Lawyer	Used often before talking about licensing issues	HackerNews, CUPS
ICYMI	In Case You Missed It
IIRC	If I Recall Correctly
IMO	In My Opinion
ITT	In This Thread
KISS	Keep It Simple, Stupid	KISS is a design principle stating that most systems work fine if it is built/kept simple than making the system complex.	Wikipedia
LGTM	Looks Good To Me	See ACK	Cardidy, Simple Icons, proposal-array-grouping, /r/webdev
LOC/SLOC	(Source) Lines Of Code	Above each file on GitHub you can find something like `50 lines (43 sloc)`. The difference is the empty lines.	GitHub
MCVE	Minimal Complete Valid/Verfiable Example	When asking a question, people will be better able to provide help if you provide code that they can easily understand and use to reproduce the problem. Such a question will be to the point, include just the information that what is necessary, be valid, and be accompanied by a clear example of your problem which leaves no room for guesswork. This is referred to by community members as MCVE	Stack Exchange
MPA	Multi-Page Application		/r/web_design
MR	Merge Request	See PR
MRE	Minimal Reproducible Example	In computing, a minimal reproducible example (abbreviated MRE) is a collection of source code and other data files which allow a bug or problem to be demonstrated and reproduced.	Stack Overflow
MVC	Model View Controller	A commonly used software design architecture based around the Model (data), the View (user interface), and the Controller (logic to handle requests).	Medium
MVP	Minimum Viable Product	A prototype version of a product with the minimum required feature set	Wikipedia
MVVM	Model View ViewModel	A front-end software design architecture based around the Model (data), the View (user interface), and the ViewModel (logic that handles view data and interactions).	Knockout MVVM Explanation
NACK/NAK	Negative ACKnowledgement	Disagree with the code changes/concept. Should be accompanied by an explanation	Bitcoin
NIH	Not Invented Here	NIH Syndrome is a decision-making error where we tend to value our own ideas above those conceived by people outside of our group	learnosity
NP	No Problem	No stress, it is fine
OOP	Object Oriented Programming
OP	Original Post/Original Poster	Original Poster (who started a thread) or Original Post (the message that started it)	/r/ProgrammerHumor, StackExchange
PEBCAK	Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard	It is a user error, not a problem / bug in the program	Humanizer, Community
PEBKAC	Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair	It is a user error, not a problem / bug in the program	Humanizer, Community
PEBMAC	Problem Exists Between Monitor And Chair	It's an error made by the human user of a complex system, usually a computer system, in interacting with it.	User error
PEBUAK	Problem Exists Between User and Keyboard	It's an error made by the human user of a complex system, usually a computer system, in interacting with it.	User error
PICNIC	Problem In Chair Not In Computer	It's an error made by the human user of a complex system, usually a computer system, in interacting with it.	User error
POBCAK	a US government/military acronym for Problem Occurs Between Chair And Keyboard	It's an error made by the human user of a complex system, usually a computer system, in interacting with it.	User error, List of U.S. government and military acronyms
PR	Pull Request	Tell others about changes you've pushed to a branch in a repository	/r/vuejs
RACI	Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed	A responsibility assignment matrix, also known as RACI matrix or linear responsibility chart, describes the participation by various roles in completing tasks or deliverables for a project or business process.	IBM
RCE	Remote Code Execution	Remote code execution is a cyber-attack whereby an attacker can remotely execute commands on someone else’s computing device. Remote code executions (RCEs) usually occur due to malicious malware downloaded by the host and can happen regardless of the device’s geographic location. Remote Code Execution (RCE) is also referred to as Remote Code Evaluation.	RCE
ReprEx	Reproducible Example	A reprex facilitates easier conversations about your code by presenting it in a concise and repeatable way. A simple copy-paste should be all that’s needed to run the reprex, and running it shouldn’t generate errors except for those that the reprex is intended to exemplify	Tidyverse, University of Virginia Library
RFC	Request For Comments
RFI	Request for Information	An RFI (request for information) is a formal process for gathering information from potential suppliers of a good or service. RFIs are intended to be written by customers and sent to potential suppliers. An RFI is typically the first and most broad series of requests intended to narrow down a list of potential vendor candidates.	RFI
RFP	Request for Proposal	A request for proposal (RFP) is a document that an organization, often a government agency or large enterprise, posts to elicit a response -- a formal bid -- from potential vendors for a desired IT solution. The RFP specifies what the customer is looking for and describes each evaluation criterion on which a vendor's proposal will be assessed.	RFP
RTFM	Read The F*****g Manual	Originally a way for the _gurus_ to get rid of trivial questions from newbies, now a humble way to state that a mistake or a waste of time can be avoided by reading the freaking manual first (assuming it exists).	XKCD comic, Github commits
SCM	Source Code Management	See VCS
SE	Software Engineer or System Engineer
SOLID	Single responsibility, Open-closed, Liskov substitution, Interface segregation and Dependency inversion	5 (of many) software design principles, promoted by Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin	Wikipedia
SPA	Single-Page Application		/r/web_design
SRE	Site Reliability Engineer		How They SRE
SRP	Single-Responsibility Principle	The single-responsibility principle is a computer-programming principle that states that every module, class or function in a computer program should have responsibility over a single part of that program's functionality, and it should encapsulate that part. wikipedia	/r/csharp/
SSOC	Social Summer of Code	Social foundation offers this two-month long summer program for students to learn about the open-source culture and get involved in the community. Participants contribute to real-life projects under the guidance of experienced mentors.	Social Summer of Code
SWE	SoftWare Engineer
TBD	To Be Defined/Done		Software Craft Website
tested ACK	Tested ACKnowledgment	Reviewed the code changes and have verified the functionality or bug fix	Bitcoin
TIL	Today I Learned	TIL that TIL is Today I Learned	/r/ProgrammerTIL/
TYSM	Thank You So Much		Cyber Definitions
utACK	UnTested ACKnowledgment	Reviewed and agree with the code changes but haven't actually tested them	Bitcoin
VCS	Version Control Software	A way to keep a track of the changes in the code so that if something goes wrong, we can make comparisons in different code versions and revert to any previous version that we want. Git, SVN or Mercurial are VCS	/r/ProgrammerHumor, softwaretestinghelp.com
WDYT	What Do You Think		Bitrise Workflow Editor
WIP	Work In Progress	Do not merge yet	GitLab's blog
WRT	With Respect to	In reference to a particular thing or situation	Tailwind Blog, Hacker News
WYSIWYG	What You See Is What You Get	It is a system in which editing software allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product. It is typically used an arbitrary markup language to define the codes/tags	WYSIWYG
XP	Extreme Programming		Wikipedia
YAGNI	You Ain't Gonna Need It		Tech Excellence
YMMV	Your Mileage May Vary		Whisper

Common chat acronyms

Abbreviation	Definition
AFK	Away From Keyboard
BRB	Be Right Back
CMIIW	Correct me if i'm wrong
IKR	I know, right
ILY	I love you
IRL	In Real Life
IYKYK	If You Know You Know
LFG	let's freaking go
LMFAO	Laughing my freaking *a* off
LMK	Let me know
LOL	Laugh out loud
LTR	Left To Right
NVM	Never mind
OFC	Of course
ROFL	Rolling on floor laughing
RTL	Right To Left
SMH	Shaking my head
STFU	Shut the *freak* up
TTYL	Talk to you later
TYVM	Thank you very much
YOLO	You only live once

Communities, Companies, Organizations

Abbreviation	Meaning	URL	What they do
AWS	Amazon web Services	https://aws.amazon.com/	Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services.
FSF	Free Software Foundation	https://www.fsf.org	Oversee a number of open source organizations
GH	GitHub	https://github.com	Source code host, owned by Microsoft
GNU	Collection of free software, a license	https://gnu.org	program of FSF, develops many linux tools and a commonly used license
MS	Microsoft	https://microsoft.com	Makers of windows, azure, vscode, and other tools that might be relevent to developers
OSI	Open Source Initiative	https://opensource.org	Defining 'Open Source'
SO	StackOverflow	https://stackoverflow.com	Popular question and answer website

Stacks

Abbreviation	Definition	Example
EFK	Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and Kibana	How To Set Up an Elasticsearch, Fluentd and Kibana (EFK) Logging Stack on Kubernetes
ELK	Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana	What is the ELK Stack?
LAMP	Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (Perl or Python)	IBM Cloud, Wikipedia
LEMP	Linux, Nginx Server, MySQL, PHP (Perl or Python)
MEAN	MongoDB, Express.js, Angular.js, Node.js
MERN	MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js
SAFE	Suave (or Saturn), Azure, Fable, Elmish	/r/fsharp

Related document

• The Jargon File
• Bitcoin's CONTRIBUTING.md
• Bitcoin hacker lingo (stolen from TCP)
• What do cryptic Github comments mean?

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foss-acronyms's Issues

Add IRL, AFK and BRB

Hello,

It would be nice to add IRL for In Real Life and AFK for Away From Keyboard

example for IRL: d-edge/Cardizer#124 (comment)

Add KPI

KPI (Key Performance Indicator) https://www.klipfolio.com/resources/articles/what-is-a-key-performance-indicator https://www.qlik.com/us/kpi

Add RICE

Hello,

It would be nice to add RICE

Ricing comes from the car terminology "ricing" or "RICEing". In the car world, RICE stands for Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement. When you put a scoop on your car (that doesn't lead to a cold air intake) or a big spoiler (which won't make a difference), you're ricing. The idea is to increase its perceived performance through cosmetics.

Example of a riced car:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner

In the Linux world we use it to often derisively mock tasteless desktop "bling" that looks really tacky. Burn My Windows fits this perfectly. It's a fun extension though and that's what matters. I use it.

source

urban dictionary

Add PEBCAK

Hello,

Today I discover the acronym PEBCAK. It means that the "Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard". Let's add this one to the list!

example: Humanizr/Humanizer#1157 (comment)

Cheers

Add WRT

Hello,

Let's add WRT for With Respect To

example: timlrx/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog#340

Add CFP

CFP: Call For Paper

usage: "The CFP is closed"
example: https://cfp.devoxx.fr/

Add GAT

GATs (generic associated types) https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/08/03/GATs-stabilization-push.html https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ynvm8a/could_someone_explain_the_gats_like_i_was_5/

Add DTO

Hello,

DTO stands for Data Transfer Object. DTOs are simple objects that should not contain any business logic. Let's add them

example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_transfer_object

Thanks!

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Add KYC and KYB

source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33402563 https://github.com/ballerine-io/ballerine

Add CLI

Hello,

It would be nice to add CLI for command-line interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface

Cheers

Add RCE

Hello,

A RCE means Remote Code Execution. This one should not be missed. Let's add it!

Thank you

Add DAE

DAE means Does Anyone Else and here is an example and usage ""DAE think this language is confusing????"

Add MCVE, MRE, ReprEx

Hi,

Let's add this three values:

• MCVE: Minimal Complete Valid Example
• MRE: Minimal Reproducible Example
• ReprEx: Reproducible Example

https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example
https://reprex.tidyverse.org/articles/learn-reprex.html

Add SSOC

Hello,

It would be nice to add SSC

Social Summer of Code (source: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/how-to-contribute-to-open-source/pull/741/files)

Social foundation offers this two-month long summer program for students to learn about the open-source culture and get involved in the community. Participants contribute to real-life projects under the guidance of experienced mentors.

Add POCO and POJO

Hello,

It would be nice to add POCO for Plain Of C# Object.

example

Thank you!

Add kbd

Hello,

Did you know that kbd was a shortcut for keyboard? Well now you know. Let's add this one the list :)

https://github.com/zestedesavoir/zmarkdown/tree/HEAD/packages/remark-kbd#readme

Add CJK

Hello,

CJK stands for Chinese-Japanese-korean. Let's add this one to the list!

Example: https://github.com/purefun/remark-join-cjk-lines

Add DX

Hello,

DX stands for Developer Experience. It is UX for our friendly devs. Friction-less installation, readability, documentation and points improving DX.

example: near/near-explorer#803

Cheers,

What about licensing?

https://github.com/DPGAlliance/publicgoods-candidates/blob/main/docs/licenses.md

Add RFP and RFI

Hello,

you may want to add RFP - Request for Proposal, and RFI - Request for Information.

as suggested by /u/pconwell

example for RFP and RFI

If you want to solve this issue, check this how-to guide.

Add RTL/LTR

Hello,

Let's add RTL and LTR for Right To Left and Left To Right.
Example: https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-dir

Cheers,

Add DI/DIP

Hello,

It would be nice to DI/DIP for Dependency Inversion Principle

Example:
https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws#the-dependency-inversion-principle=

The pages-build-deployment action should run after the markdown-from-json action.

Hello,

I saw that the pages-build-deployment action ran after the markdown-from-json action. This is not what we want. We should always start with the action markdown-from-json or we are just deploying the previous outdated markdown.

Thank you

Add MVC and MVVM

Since we just merged MVC (cf #92) we could also add other design patterns like MVP and MVVM.

Note that we already have an entry for MVP (i.e. Most Valuable Product).

While we should be able to have both, I think we could group those design patterns together.

add TYSM

add TYSM acronym

Should we add companies?

Hello,

I know that it is quite common to use GH for GitHub and SO for Stack Overflow. SO is a common acronym from Significant Other (as "love partner"), so I think it could be useful to put it here.

Any opinions?

Create a static website to have a better display of jsons

technology is free to choose

Add SE/SWE/SRE

Hi!

We can three more:

SE: Software Engineer or System Engineer
SWE: SoftWare Engineer
SRE: Site Reliability Engineer

Thank you

PEBCAK definition is for PEBKAC

Hello
I just discovered that the definition of PEBCAK was swapped for PEBKAC, which has been cross-checked from this source.

Is it possible for me to fix it and add some variant of PEBCAK? even though it means the same

Should we add organization and people?

Hello,

I wonder whether we should add organization like the FSF (Free Software Foundation) and the OSI (Open Source Initiative) and famous FOSS people like RMS (Richard Matthew Stallman) and ESR (Eric S. Raymond).

Cheers,

VSCode returns an error in data/acronyms.json

In: data/acronyms.json

VSCode returns error message : "colon expected json(515) [Ln 398, Col 3]

I guess it has to do with the format of multiple urls under the RICE acronym

Create bots to help people on social network

calling !fossca AoA should print Analysis of Alternatives with a direct link to the GitHub page (see #48)

fossca or whatever the botname is.

Social network platform could be: Reddit (/r/programming, /r/programmerhumor etc.), HN, Twitter, Mastodon, Slack bot, Google Chat, Discord bot, etc.

Add ids to acronyms to have a way to link directly

Something akin to https://d-edge.github.io/foss-acronyms/#AOA

Add TFA and DAG

TFA is "The Fine Article"; essentially this HN submission. DAG is "Directed Acyclic Graph"; a graph with directed edges and no cycles.

source

Should we add paradigm?

For example FP for Functional Programming and OOP for Object Oriented Programming

Add WDYT

"What do you think?"

Sources:

• https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/WDYT
• https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=WDYT

Add XP

Hello,

Let's add XP for eXtreme Programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming)

Cheers,

Add GUI

Hello,

It would be nice to add GUI for Graphical user interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface

Cheers

[meme] Can anyone else relate?

source

Add ADR, AD, AKM, and ASR

Hello fellow,

Can we add ADR, AD, AKM and ASR?

An Architectural Decision (AD) is a software design choice that addresses a functional or non-functional requirement that is architecturally significant. An Architecturally Significant Requirement (ASR) is a requirement that has a measurable effect on a software system’s architecture and quality. An Architectural Decision Record (ADR) captures a single AD, such as often done when writing personal notes or meeting minutes; the collection of ADRs created and maintained in a project constitute its decision log. All these are within the topic of Architectural Knowledge Management (AKM).

https://adr.github.io/

Thank you!

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