Honest definitions from work and life

  • Developer

    noun

    An overworked professional who attends meetings ... and writes code in their spare time.

    PM: "Are we releasing this today?"
    Dev: "Nope. I'm stuck in a meeting!"
    PM: "About what?"
    Dev: "Complaining about the emails I didn’t have time to read because of meetings."

    karthik on August 14, 2024

  • Passive-aggressive

    adjective

    The art of weaponizing politeness with the precision of a drone strike.

    “Love how you tried to make that PowerPoint on your own! Really shows… courage.”

    scomberry on July 21, 2025

  • Thirsty

    adjective

    The feeling when your stomach is extremely horny for water.

    Ray: "I need water! I'm thirsty!"
    Megan: "Here you—"
    Ray: "GIVE IT TO ME! glug glug Oh wow! glug glug Oh yeah!"

    maxtor120 on August 18, 2024

  • Click-through Rate (CTR)

    noun

    A product metric in a software company that measures how often people are tricked into clicking on a link in an ad or email.

    Boss: "Hey, we've spent nearly $10,000 on this campaign. What’s our click-through rate?"
    Product marketer: jumps out the window

    karthik on August 14, 2024

  • Debounce

    verb

    To neatly bundle up a bunch of panicked, repetitive server requests from clueless developers and handle them as a single, calm request. It’s a common rate-limiting technique used to save servers from being overwhelmed by ridiculously frequent API polling from the noobs.

    New developer: "Erm... Why is there a lag in my request and response?"
    Experienced developer: "Your stupid logic fires too many requests in too little time. Your requests are being debounced."

    karthik on August 19, 2024