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Synapse, backed by a16z, has collapsed, and 10 million consumers could be hurt (techcrunch.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

I can't stand "a16z" type abbreviations. "a11y" for accessibility is ironically inaccessible unless you already know. I hate having to search these terms just to figure out what they're talking about. "a16z" is apparently Andreessen Horowitz. How is that intuitive or accessible?

[–] cloud_herder 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Rolling onto a client that uses “O11y” for observability almost gave me permanent damage.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is the first time I've ever even heard of these kinds of abbreviations, what the hell even are they?

[–] cloud_herder 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They’re shorthand for long words you don’t want to type. You keep the first and last letter and replace the rest of the word with the number of characters you removed.

Kubernetes ➡️ K8s Observability ➡️ O11y

🤷🏼‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

And I thought that "8" had something to do with "netes" because it somewhat resembles the pronunciation 🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah this is my first time learning this too and k8s is something that comes up almost daily for me.

I18n is the only one that clues in for me (internationalization).

[–] cloud_herder 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think I’d still rather type out internationalization even if it doesn’t fit on a slide lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Was it a file system workaround, or character limit in some older programming language?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Man, I always found that weird but never looked it up...

[–] cloud_herder 4 points 5 months ago

I thought the same until the barbarians came @me with O11y and one of my coworkers asked where the f they got “oh eleveny” from.

I just thought 8 = netes.

[–] barsquid 4 points 5 months ago

My favorite is k3s. Named so that it is the same as k8s, but smaller.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I didn't think I could hate a name shortening system this much but here we are

[–] cornshark 9 points 5 months ago

Very true, and impossible to translate also. They're terrible for i18n

[–] Badeendje 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah they should just give him some stupid nickname.. like meatball Ron, space Karen.. etc.. etc.... making fun of these jokers should become the norm.