A11Y - Accessibility, the letter “a,” followed by 11 letters, followed by “y”
aka - also known as
API - Application Programming Interface
CIDR - Classless Inter-Domain Routing
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
DYK - Did you know
DYC - Do you care
e.g. - from the Latin exemplī grātiā (“for example”)
EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
FDGC - See FGDC
FGDC - (sometimes referred to as FDGC) stands for Federal Geographic Data Committee, see
FGDC.gov for more details than you probably want to know, including excruciating details on
metadata.
fka - formerly known as
FOUC - Flash Of Unstyled Content (also flash of unstyled text or FOUT) - the condition where a web page appears briefly with the browser's default styles prior to loading an external stylesheet, due to the web browser engine rendering the page before all information is retrieved. Related problems include flash of invisible text (FOIT) and flash of faux text (FOFT).
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
FYI - For Your Information
G11N - Globalization, the letter “g,” followed by 11 letters, followed by “n”
GIS - Geographic Information Systems
GPS - Global Positioning System
HTML - HyperText Markup Language
I18N - internationalization, the letter “i,” followed by 18 letters, followed by “n”
ICYMI - In Case You Missed It
IE - Internet Explorer. Many people confuse
IE with a web browser. Technically,
IE is a Microsoft Internet document viewer. A true web browser will open and display web-based files that conform to the
W3C standards.
IE opens and displays web-based files that conform to Microsoft's standards.
i.e. - from the Latin id est (“that is”)
L10N - Localization, the letter “l,” followed by 10 letters, followed by “n”
nka - now known as
P13N - Personalization, the letter “p,” followed by 13 letters, followed by “n”
PhD - Stands for “Doctor of Philosophy” which appears to be a misnomer since most have never taken a philosophy course in their lives.
PHP - PHP is a very powerful scripting language. In the beginning (1995) “PHP” stood for “Personal Home Page.” But that's changed. It's now a recursive abbreviation and stands for “PHP - Hypertext Preprocessor.”
PII - Personally identifiable information. Examples include: Full name/usernames, Home address/mailing address, Email address, Credit card numbers, Date of birth, and Phone numbers.
PIN - Personal Identification Number, used for just about everything in the world.
SFTP - SSH
FTP (File Transfer Protocol), essentially Secure
FTP
SQL - Stands for Structured Query Language and although most people pronounce this as a word, and therefore consider it an acronym, that's wrong. It's really an initialism and it should be pronounced that way.
SSH - Secure Shell
TFS - Team Foundation Server - something from Microsoft supposedly to aid in the development of software. Here's an interesting and little known fact. It was originally called “Productivity Optimization Server,” however, confusion resulted since the phrase “Microsoft POS” referred to multiple Microsoft products.
TL;DR - short for “too long; didn't read” - Internet slang to say that some text being replied to has been ignored because of its length. Variations include:
ToS;DR - “Terms of Service; didn't read”,
iN;DR - “iNotes; didn't read”,
TMI - Too Much Information, or Three Mile Island, depending on the context.
URL - Uniform Resource Locator and is a reference to a resource on the Internet. It's usually just referred to as the web address. Some people will pronounce this as if it was an acronym (earl) but that's wrong, and just sounds stupid.
UX - Guess this is an initialism with a typo. It's used to mean User Experience.
VCS - Version Control System, e.g. GIT or SVN
XKCD - Ok, this is
NOT an initialism. According to
this, it's “just a word with no phonetic pronunciation.” I'm putting it here, anyway, because this is probably where someone will go to look for it.
XKCD (or xkcd) is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.”