Acronym herbarium
August 24, 2023 (updated March 5, 2025)
This collection of acronyms, like a herbarium, documents parts of the worlds of design, computer science, and software engineering I’ve had the pleasure of visiting, if only briefly, so far.
Acronyms count: 327
| 2FA | Two-Factor Authentication |
| 3P | Third Party |
| A11y | Accessibility |
| ACID | Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability |
| AFK | Away From Keyboard |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| AJAX | Asynchronous JavaScript and XML |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. |
| AMD | Asynchronous Module Definition |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| APIaaS | API as a Service |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASI | Automatic Semicolon Insertion |
| AST | Abstract Syntax Tree |
| AT&T | American Telephone and Telegraph |
| AWS | Amazon Web Services |
| BASIC | Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
| BDD | Behavior-Driven Design |
| BDUF | Big Design Up Front |
| BE | Back End |
| BEM | Block, Element, Modifier |
| BINAC | Binary Automatic Computer |
| BIOS | Basic Input/Output System |
| BLOB | Binary Large Object |
| BOM | Browser Object Model |
| BUC | Business Use-Case |
| BSOD | Blue Screen of Death |
| CD | Compact Disk |
| CD | Continuous Delivery |
| CD | Continuous Deployment |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disk Read-Only Memory |
| CDD | Component-Driven Development |
| CDN | Content Delivery Network |
| CI | Continuous Integration |
| CJM | Customer Journey Map |
| CJS | Common.js |
| CLI | Command Line Interface |
| CMS | Content Management System |
| CMYK | Cyan Magenta Yellow Key |
| CMU | Carnegie Mellon University |
| CPP | C++ |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| CR | Carriage Return |
| CRA | Create React App |
| CRUD | Create Read Update Delete |
| CS | Computer Science |
| CSF | Component Story Format |
| CSP | Content Security Policy |
| CSR | Client-Side Rendering |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets |
| CSV | Comma-Separated Values |
| CT | Continuous Testing |
| CTA | Call To Action |
| CX | Customer Experience |
| D3 | Data-Driven Documents |
| DaaS | Data as a Service |
| DAM | Digital Asset Management |
| DB | Database |
| DDD | Domain Driven Design |
| DDoS | Distributed Denial-of-Service |
| DFA | Deterministic Finite Automaton |
| DFSA | Deterministic Finite-State Automaton |
| DFSM | Deterministic Finite-State Machine |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DoD | Definition of Done |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| DOS | Disk Operating System |
| dp | Density-independent Pixels |
| DPA | Data Processing Agreement |
| DRY | Don't Repeat Yourself |
| DSL | Domain-Specific Language |
| DSV | Delimiter-Separated Values |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| DVD | Digital Versatile Disk |
| DX | Developer Experience |
| EBP | Elementary Business Process |
| EE | Electrical Engineering |
| emf | Electromotive Force |
| ENIAC | Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer |
| ENOENT | Error No Entity |
| EOF | End of File |
| EOL | End of Life |
| EOL | End of Line |
| EOY | End of Year |
| ERTW | Engineers Rule The World |
| ESM | ECMAScript Modules |
| ESP | Email Service Provider |
| EV | Environment Variable |
| FaaS | Function as a Service |
| FAB | Floating Action Button |
| FAQ | Frequentyly Asked Questions |
| FCP | First Contentful Paint |
| FE | Front End |
| FIFO | First In, First Out (see LIFO) |
| FOSS | Free and Open-Source Software |
| FSF | Free Software Foundation |
| FSM | Finite-State Machine |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| FY | Fiscal Year |
| Gb | Gigabit |
| GB | Gigabyte |
| Gbps | Gigabits per second |
| GC | Garbage Collector |
| GCC | GNU Compiler Collection |
| GCP | Google Cloud Platform |
| GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation |
| GFM | GitHub Flavored Markdown |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format |
| GLSL | OpenGL Shading Language |
| GNU | GNU's Not Unix |
| GPL | GNU General Public License |
| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit |
| GTM | Google Tag Manager |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| GUID | Globally Unique Identifier |
| GWT | Google Web Toolkit |
| HCD | Human-Centered Design |
| HCI | Human-Computer Interaction |
| HDMI | High-Definition Multimedia Interface |
| HHD | Hybrid Hard Drive |
| HN | Hacker News |
| HOF | Higher-Order Function |
| HSB | Hue Saturation Brightness |
| HSL | Hue Saturation Lightness |
| HSLA | Hue Saturation Lightness Alpha |
| HTML | Hyper-Text Markup Language |
| HTTP | Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol |
| HTTPS | Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol Secure |
| HMR | Hot Module Replacement |
| I/O | Input/Output |
| I18n | Internationalization |
| IA | Information Architecture |
| IaaS | Infrastructure as a Service |
| IAM | Identity and Access Management |
| IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
| IBM | International Business Machines Corporation |
| IDE | Integrated Development Environment |
| IE | Internet Explorer |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IIFE | Immediately Invoked Function Expression |
| IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol |
| IME | Input Method Editor |
| iOS | iPhone Operating System |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IPC | Inter-Process Communication |
| IPS | In-Plane Switching |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| ISP | Interface Segregation Principle |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| IT | Information Technology |
| JIT | Just-In-Time |
| JS | JavaScript |
| JSON | JavaScript Object Notation |
| JSX | JavaScript XML |
| JTBD | Jobs To Be Done |
| JVM | Java Virtual Machine |
| JWT | JSON Web Tokens |
| k8s | Kubernetes |
| Kb | Kilobit |
| KB | Kilobyte |
| Kbps | Kilobits per second |
| KISS | Keep It Simple, Stupid |
| KMS | Knowledge Management System |
| KPI | Key Performance Indicator |
| L10n | Localization |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LCD | Liquid-Crystal Display |
| LED | Light-Emitting Diode |
| LF | Line Feed |
| LGTM | Looks Good to Me |
| LIFO | Last In, First Out (see FIFO) |
| LLM | Large Language Model |
| LOC | Lines of Code |
| LTR | Left-To-Right (see RTL) |
| LTS | Long-Term Support |
| MAC | Message Authentication Code |
| Mb | Megabit |
| MB | Megabyte |
| Mbps | Megabits per second |
| MD | Markdown |
| MDN | Mozilla Developer Network |
| MFA | Multi-Factor Authentication |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MMD | MultiMarkdown |
| MOOC | Massive Open Online Courses |
| MR | Merge Request |
| MVC | Model-View-Controller |
| MVP | Minimum Viable Product |
| MVVM | Model-View-ViewModel |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NFA | Nondeterministic Finite Automaton |
| NFSA | Nondeterministic Finite-State Automaton |
| NFSM | Nondeterministic Finite-State Machine |
| NLP | Natural Language Processing |
| NoSQL | Not Only SQL |
| npm | Node Package Manager |
| NPS | Net Promoter Score |
| NVM | Node Version Manager |
| OCI | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure |
| OFL | Open Font License |
| OKR | Objectives and Key Results |
| OMG | Object Management Group |
| OOA | Object-Oriented Analysis |
| OOD | Object-Oriented Design |
| OOP | Object-Oriented Programming |
| ORM | Object-Relational Mapping |
| OS | Operating System |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnection |
| OTP | One-Time Password |
| OWASP | Open Worldwide Application Security Project |
| PaaS | Platform as a Service |
| PC | Personal Computer |
| PHP | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor |
| PII | Personal Identifiable Information |
| POC | Proof Of Concept |
| PM | Product Manager |
| PM | Project Manager |
| PO | Product Owner |
| PR | Pull Request |
| PX | Pixel |
| PW | Password |
| QA | Quality Assurance |
| QOL | Quality of Life |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| RBAC | Role-Based Access Control |
| RDBMS | Relational Database Management System |
| RE | Regular Expression |
| REPL | Read-Eval-Print Loop |
| REST | Representational State Transfer |
| RFC | Request for Comments |
| RGB | Red Green Blue |
| RGBA | Red Green Blue Alpha |
| ROI | Return on Investment |
| RoR | Ruby on Rails |
| ROM | Read-Only Memory |
| RSS | Really Simple Syndication |
| RTF | Rich Text Format |
| RTFM | Read the Fucking Manual |
| RTL | Right-To-Left (see LTR) |
| RTL | React Testing Library |
| RWD | Responsive Web Design |
| SaaS | Software as a Service |
| SAN | Storage Area Network |
| Sass | Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets |
| SDK | Software Development Kit |
| SERP | Search Engine Result Page |
| SFC | Single-File Component |
| SHA | Secure Hash Algorithm |
| SICP | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs |
| SIP | System Integrity Protection |
| SLOC | Source Lines of Code |
| SME | Subject Matter Expert |
| SMIL | Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SoC | System on a Chip |
| SPA | Single-Page Application |
| SRE | Site Reliability Engineering |
| SSD | Solid-State Drive |
| SSG | Static Site Generator |
| SSH | Secure Shell |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| SSO | Single Sign-On |
| SSR | Server-Side Rendering |
| SUD | System Under Discussion |
| SUT | System Under Test |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| STEM | Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics |
| SUC | System Use-Case |
| SUS | System Usability Scale |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics |
| SVN | Apache Subversion |
| SWE | Software Engineer |
| TB | Terabyte |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| TDD | Test-Driven Development |
| TDZ | Temporal Dead Zone |
| TOC | Table of Contents |
| TS | TypeScript |
| TSV | Tab-Separated Values |
| TTFB | Time to First Byte |
| TUI | Text-based User Interface |
| UCD | User-Centered Design |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| UEFI | Unified Extensible Firmware Interface |
| UI | User Interface |
| UID | Unique Identifier |
| UMD | Universal Module Definition |
| UML | Unified Modeling Language |
| UNIVAC | Universal Automatic Computer |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| UTF | Unicode Transformation Format |
| UUID | Universally Unique Identifier |
| UX | User Experience |
| UXD | User Experience Design |
| UXR | User Experience Research |
| VCS | Version Control System |
| VDOM | Virtual DOM |
| VFS | Virtual File System |
| VM | Virtual Machine |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| WAF | Web Application Firewall |
| Wasm | WebAssembly |
| Wi-Fi | Wireless Fidelity |
| WIP | Work In Progress |
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network |
| WP | WordPress |
| WSJF | Weighted Shortest Job First |
| WSL | Windows Subsystem for Linux |
| WTF | What the fuck |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get |
| XHR | XMLHttpRequest |
| XHTML | Extensible HyperText Markup Language |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
| XP | Extreme Programming |
| YML | Yandex Market Language |
| YAGNI | You Aren't Gonna Need It |
| YAML | YAML Ain't Markup Language |