The Lossless Group

Vocabulary

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

Diffs

841 words

Also known as: Git Diffs

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

Robotics

828 words

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