Tag: terminology

Previously: Call Them “Quals” and Against Pseudovernacular Jargon. One time I went to a doctor’s appointment with our son for some knee pain he was having. The doctor asked where the pain was, if it was “below the kneecap”. My son and I both tried to clarify the question: “do you mean below as in under...

Beeminder is kind of notorious for its jargon. We’ve got beemergencies, an akrasia horizon, maxflux, and, most recently, tare tags. Some of these seem to us perfectly self-explanatory — derail, pledge, ratchet, commitment dial, post-derail respite — but of course they’re not. From a newbee perspective,...

Attention conservation notice: This is of no actual relevance to Beeminder users. Except the ones who are software developers, which in fact seems to be most of you. (Also AI seems to be drastically lowering the barrier to entry for creating software, so maybe this is about to be relevant for everyone.)...

Being a smidge embarrassed by the term “user-squeaming”, we sat on this draft for years. But when we used it again this morning we decided the concept handle had officially stuck and figured it was time to give it the imprimatur of a blog post. User-squeaming means being excessively squeamish about what...

We’ve been collecting a list of synonyms for the crazy lifehack that sites like Beeminder facilitate. In addition to us being shameless SEO-whores, it seems like this list could be genuinely useful for humans, especially the kind of humans who read the Beeminder Blog. Here’s how a co-founder of StickK...