General Computing Concepts ↔ sort into better categories later
aka Concepts
Binary
base 2 number system
Bootstrap
startup Program to init OS ie POST, Boot Loader, etc - or broadly to init/load/setup something
Decentralized System
(model) system to self-organize & emerge from separate distributed nodes
Executable
portable binary Machine Code executable, Compiled to run platform specific
Glob Pattern
regex-like wildcard Syntax to match dir/filename
Source: globster.xyz/
Handler
Callback to run in response to Event Trigger
Idempotent
of ability to execute Concurrent process & not affect final result beyond initial
Interoperability
of Programming Language compat to other lang for better adopt
Inversion of Control
Design Pattern to invert Control Flow to Callback to increase Modularity & decouple Deps ??
IOPS
Input/Output Operations per second - perf metric for storage, network, etc
localhost
hostname of local machine
Memory Safety
of Programming Language to auto incl Garbage-Collection handling w/o need Imperative cleanup
Metadata
data to describe data
Null Safety
P2P
(model) system to distribute data/tasks (ie compute/file-sharing) across peer to peer nodes
Protocol
(standard) set of rules for something?
Pseudocode
plain language to express logic of Algorithm/Code
Reference
pointer to locate data elsewhere
Sandbox
Isolated environment/container for Runtime Environment/HTML/etc
Scalar
single simple value (primitive) value or ref
Schema
shape of data
Shared Memory
Memory to access by multiple Processes
Stringify
(process) to return string rep of object
Swizzling
to change param order of function
Symbolic Link
shortcut. placeholder link pointer to actual file location
Syntax
grammer of Programming Language
Token
smallest element of Programming Language/network/security to rep something of Semantic relevance
Trigger
event to cause Handler to run
UID
Unique ID for DB entry || user