Fowler coins new words to describe things he sees in software. I do the same. I don't expect any to catch on. I do it to help me think.
Semantic Diffusion describes how terms lose their meaning as they spread. I discovered it a while ago. I think Event Sourcing, CQRS, and DDD are topics that suffer from this exact problem.
Kevin Wild filmed his 42-day, 650km solo canoe expedition across the Labrador wilderness. The result is an 8-hour documentary covering everything from polar bear territory to paddling alongside whales. Unmissable!
Claude is assuming my codebase and dependencies are always fresh. I'm experimenting with a new CLAUDE.md decision-making heuristic. I'm trying to nudge it to check before wasting a bunch of time on debugging cycles.
Native range inputs have a tiny capture area — drag too fast and the pointer escapes. setPointerCapture locks tracking to the element, touch-none stops the browser stealing the pointer for gestures, and a pointerup handler catches the final position that pointermove misses.