An esoteric programming language designed to be as difficult to program in as possible.
"Malbolge is named after the eighth circle of hell in Dante's Inferno, reflecting its intentionally confusing and complex nature."
A humorous term used in software development to describe the situation where a series of seemingly unrelated tasks or activities must be completed in order to accomplish a primary goal or objective, often leading to distraction, frustration, and inefficiency.
"Instead of fixing the bug, he found himself yak shaving—debugging the build system, updating dependencies, and refactoring unrelated code."
A naming convention in computer programming where the name of a variable or function indicates its type or intended use.
"Although Hungarian notation can make code more readable, it's fallen out of favor in many programming languages that have strong type systems."
CSS is the code that tells the browser how to display the content of a web page for the end user by formatting fonts, colors, backgrounds, and other visual elements.
"Using CSS, developers can ensure that their website has a consistent look and feel across different web browsers."
A humorous or derogatory term used in software development to describe attempts to resolve technical problems or issues through superstitious or irrational means, such as chanting, sacrificing, or making symbolic gestures, usually as a last resort when all other solutions fail.
"After hours of debugging, he resorted to waving a dead chicken in front of the monitor in a desperate attempt to fix the issue."