The Lossless Group

Reference Library

Browse our collection of vocabulary terms and conceptual frameworks.

Vocabulary

401 terms • 154.2K+ words

Terms and definitions used throughout our work.

3D Graphics

1.0k words

Acquisitions

1.2k words

Also known as: acquiring

Also known as: Advanced Spreadsheet

Also known as: Affinity Group

Agentic AI

450 words

Also known as: [AI Agents, AI Agent, Agent, Agents]

Agile

1.0k words

Also known as: Hallucinations, Hallucination

Also known as: Models, AI Model, Model

Also known as: AI Native

Also known as: All-in-One Platform

AlphaFold

877 words

App Builders

3.3k words

Also known as: App Builder

Also known as: App Store

Also known as: API, APIs

Atomic Design

1.2k words

Also known as: Back-End

Also known as: BDD

Also known as: Block-Element-Modifier

Also known as: Boilerplate

Brand Voice

741 words

Build Systems

1.2k words

Also known as: Build System

Also known as: CAG

Also known as: chain-of-thought, CoT

Also known as: CSR, Client-Side Rendering

Also known as: Divergent Thinking

Also known as: Open Platforms

Also known as: Command-Line Interface, CLI

Also known as: CLI, Command-Line Interface

Also known as: CGI

Also known as: Container

Also known as: Content Delivery Network, CDN, CDNs

Also known as: Refactoring, Continuous Rewrites

Copypasta

472 words

Also known as: CVC

Creators

951 words

Critical Mass

886 words

CRM

1.2k words

Also known as: Customer Relationship Management

Also known as: Cross-Platform

CRUD

3.9k words

Data Analysis

633 words

Also known as: DFD

Data Labeling

637 words

Also known as: Data Annotation

Data Literacy

732 words

Data Model

1.3k words

Also known as: Data Modeling

Data Pipelines

1.2k words

Also known as: Data Pipeline

Data Science

796 words

Also known as: Data Standards

DataOps

2.0k words

Also known as: Data Operations, DataOps

Deep Fakes

2.3k words

Also known as: Design System

Dev Ops

751 words

Also known as: DevOps, Developer Operations

Also known as: Digital Asset Library

Also known as: DXP

Also known as: DDD

Edge Functions

1.3k words

Also known as: Ephemeral Environment

Ergonomics

784 words

Also known as: Extended Reality, Virtual Reality, VR, XR

Also known as: Extension Library, Plug-in Library

Also known as: [ELT]

Also known as: Forked Repo, Forked Repository

Frontmatter

713 words

Also known as: GPU Architecture, GPU, GPUs

Also known as: Hackathon

Holacracy

946 words

Also known as: ICL

Also known as: IaaS

Also known as: Interactive Notebook

Also known as: IoT

Also known as: Integration Platform as a Service

JAM Stack

769 words

Also known as: KVMs, KVM, Kernel-based Virtual Machine

Also known as: KPI, KPIs, Key Performance Indicator

Also known as: [Knowledge Base]

Also known as: LLM, LLMs, Large Language Model

Also known as: LAN

Also known as: Local LLMs

Also known as: Local-First, Local-First Apps

Lock In

756 words

Also known as: lock-in, vendor lock-in

Logging

835 words

Also known as: Markdown Editors

Market Leaders

1.3k words

Also known as: Market Standard

Markup

700 words

Also known as: Markup Language, Markup Languages

Meta Prompting

1.3k words

Also known as: Microfrontends, Microfrontend

Microservices

533 words

Also known as: Microservice Architecture, Microservice, Microservices Architecture, Microservices Architectures

Also known as: Mini-PCs

Also known as: Model Router, Model Routers

Also known as: Monolithic

Also known as: Monorepos

Also known as: Multi-Agent Systems, MAS

Also known as: NPS

Also known as: Network-Attached-Storage-Server

Object Storage

1.2k words

Also known as: OOP

Also known as: ORM

Also known as: Optical Character Recognition

Also known as: Walkthrough

Also known as: Package, Library, Packages, Libraries

Also known as: Plex Server

Also known as: Plug-ins, Addons, Addon, Extensions, Extension, Plug-in

Also known as: PCBs

Also known as: PSM Burden

Proxy Chains

1.2k words

Also known as: Read-Eval-Print Loop, REPL

Also known as: The Everything App

Also known as: Reference Management, RMS, Reference Management Systems

Release Notes

1.4k words

Also known as: [Remote Monitoring]

Also known as: RPC

REST API

1.3k words

Also known as: REST APIs

Also known as: Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG

Also known as: RSN

Also known as: SVG, SVGs, Scalable Vector Graphic

SCARP

995 words

Also known as: Software Development Kit

Also known as: SEO

Also known as: Self-Host, Self-Hostable

Semantic HTML

719 words

Also known as: SemVer

Also known as: SSR

Serverless

478 words

Also known as: SSO

Also known as: SML, SMLs

Also known as: Architecture Diagrams

Also known as: [SBOM]

Spigot Pricing

1.1k words

Also known as: [Standards Organization]

Also known as: SSG, Static Site Generation, Static Site Generator

Also known as: MELT

Also known as: Parsing

Also known as: Text UI, Console User Interfaces, Console UI

Think Tanks

887 words

Also known as: Think Tank

Also known as: Ticket Manager

Tor Network

1.7k words

Also known as: UI Builder

UI Design

810 words

Also known as: UI Designers

Also known as: Universal Character Set, Unicode

User Flow

439 words

Also known as: UI

User Research

1.1k words

Also known as: Vector Database

Also known as: VC

VFX

979 words

Also known as: Visual Effects

Vibe Coding

962 words

Video Editing

2.3k words

Also known as: Video Editors

Also known as: Video Generators, Video Generation

Also known as: VPS, Personal-Cloud

Also known as: VUI, VUIs, Voice User Interfaces

Wearables

747 words

Also known as: Wearable Devices, Wearable UI

Also known as: Accessibility

Web Browser

1.1k words

Also known as: Web Browsers, Browser, Browsers

Also known as: WebCams

Also known as: Web Scraper, Web Scrapers

Also known as: WSGI

Web Standards

1.3k words

Also known as: Web Standard

Web3

2.6k words

WebAssembly

742 words

Also known as: WASM

WebGPU

785 words

Also known as: Workflow Automation

Also known as: Project Management

Wrangling

1.3k words

Also known as: Data Wrangling

Also known as: ZFS, Zetta File System

Concepts

308 concepts • 155.5K+ words

Important ideas and frameworks we use in our work.

ABM Platforms

731 words

AI Assistants

853 words

AI Avatars

1.1k words

AI Companions

1.6k words

AI Reasoning

1.4k words

AI Safety

671 words

API Managers

465 words

Blank Slates

1.1k words

Calm Design

696 words

Chain of Draft

1.0k words

Concept Model

1.1k words

Context Rot

858 words

Data Centers

3.5k words

Data Fluidics

543 words

Data Hubs

838 words

DevSecOps

792 words

Dialog Syntax

1.1k words

Drag

1.6k words

DRY Principle

811 words

Fine Tuning

2.1k words

Growth Engines

2.1k words

Half Moons

656 words

Headless CMS

861 words

Helpdesk AI

836 words

Home Labs

683 words

LLM Gateways

833 words

MCP Servers

851 words

PathRAG

798 words

Skeumorphism

968 words

Tipping Point

785 words

UI-Kit

848 words

Vulnerability

686 words

Web Analytics

1.4k words