slackalanche

The deluge of messages in Slack that cause a particular one to get lost thanks to Slack's feature of marking a message as read once it is glanced at.

Sorry, lost this in the Slackalanche and am just getting back to reply. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

by billbrown February 07, 2022

Jira jockey

A corporate drone whose dominant form of output is creating, moving, and updating Jira issues.

We have too many Jira jockeys and not enough people doing the actual work.

by billbrown September 01, 2022

Pareto part

The main source of value or importance in something being considered. The Pareto principle is that 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes, sometimes shortened as "the 80/20 rule"

YOU: This yard is full of weeds. It'll take us two days to clear them out.
ME: Let's just do the Pareto part surrounding the walkway: that should only take 4 hours and 48 minutes.

by billbrown October 10, 2023

randosplain

A pompous explanation of context by an anonymous social media user, usually to someone with actual expertise or experience.

ProfessBioMIT: @BioLabFella That's a fascinating idea about bioenergetics. I wonder how adjacency affects the signal.

John623498770: @BioLabFella @ProfessBioMIT Cells are almost always packed tightly so adjacency should be frequent.

ProfessBioMIT: @BioLabFella Ugh, I just got randosplained. Maybe I should call you at the lab and take this fascinating conversation private.

by billbrown December 30, 2022