A plain-English dictionary for the words and acronyms that keep coming up in software — what they actually mean, where they came from, and the gotchas that the official docs gloss over.
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Plain-English entries — the term in one sentence, then a paragraph that actually explains it. No "a programming paradigm characterised by...".
Origin notes — where the term came from, who coined it, what problem they were solving. Context that makes the term sticky rather than abstract.
Gotcha callouts — the misuse, the term-overload (e.g. "thread"), the deprecated usage that's still in old docs. The traps the dictionary should warn you about.
Cross-references between related terms so you can navigate a topic by following links rather than by Googling each new word as it arrives.
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