Knowledge Base

Rapid Application Development — methodology popularized by James Martin; Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, and Delphi all wore this badge. Mostly meant "fast until it wasn't" and disappointed a million deluded managers.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation: an architecture that improves LLM responses by retrieving relevant documents from an external corpus at query time, grounding the model's output in your data rather than its training weigh

a stable abstraction layer over Javascript server runtimes, a single API that delegates to native runtime calls under the hood, so JS code doesn't have to be bun-, deno-, or nodejs-aware.

the Resource Description Framework - a W3C standard for representing knowledge as subject-predicate-object triples; the foundation of the semantic web and machine-readable ontological reasoning

a Javascript UI library for building component-based interfaces. Commonly paired with NextJS for full-stack use.

a schema language for XML that defines valid document structure via patterns; simpler and more expressive than XSD for many use cases

an architectural style for networked applications defined by Roy Fielding, built on stateless client-server interaction, a uniform interface, and resources identified by URIs and manipulated through representations.

8878: Zstandard Compression and the 'application/zstd' Media Type

9110: HTTP Semantics

9535: JSONPath: Query Expressions for JSON

a full-stack Java web framework descended from the original RIFE framework, built around minimizing boilerplate and keeping everything in plain Java. Also the home of bld. Opinionated, coherent, and focused on a continua

a Quarkus-based static site generator with full ecosystem and an embedded editor.

a dynamically-typed, interpreted high-level language. Emphasizes readability, and Ruby on Rails utterly changed how a lot of developers saw web applications being written. For a while.

Rust is a systems programming language with an emphasis on safety without a garbage collector, using a compile-time ownership model to prevent resource leaks. Now being used in the Linux Kernel and many other such projec

a Groovy DSL build tool with a plugin-as-dependency model and explicit per-machine JDK configuration. New enough that its differentiating value over Gradle, Mill, Amper, and Bld is not yet clear. Documentation was incomp

a rule-based XML validation language using XPath assertions rather than grammar-based structure; catches constraints XSD and RelaxNG cannot express

Semver is "semantic versioning," a version scheme that uses major, minor, and patch version numbers, indicating the severity of change from *prior* numbers.

a CLI HTTP/HTTPS stress tester with support for URL lists and basic auth; older but still common in Unix sysadmin toolkits.

the "simple logging facade for java." It's designe dto try to provide a common interface for logging across a lot of other logging frameworks, and it's pretty standard, even if it's imperfect.