tech spiral

When a high-level technical discussion is derailed by a pernickety exploration of implementation details. Often exacerbated by a lively variety of opinion and speculation.

We were ploughing through our daily stand-up the other day until that bogan plunged us into a tech spiral, costing us 25 minutes with a discussion on the correct means of parsing hashes.

by anonymous January 30, 2024

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Lasagna Spiral

A duration of time that occurs in which a completely asinine and useless topic becomes so adversely discussed that the original point becomes moot. Like when a player in a tabletop group does something completely pointless and describes everything about that, the game master leaves the room in frustration

I can't believe we lasagna spiraled for 45 minutes on this one shopping trip.

by McCrispies20 May 4, 2023

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Spiraling

Guys, seriously, hints aren't going to cut it.

Hym "I'm not taking hints. You need to do the thing I said. If your response to me saying that is 'I aLrEaDy DiD iT!' Then whatever you did doesn't actually constitute doing the thing I said. You're a fucking retard. If it's spiraling then YOU DO NEED TO COME HERE, you need to talk to me directly, and then you need to give me the credit and the money and then you need to do the terms of service. There is no half measure that will work. I have written all about your mentally retarded weasel psychology and none of the shit you generate with your mentally retarded minds is going to do anything other than make everything worse for everybody because you suck and are dumb."

by Hym Iam August 27, 2025

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Yeah, we'll know for sure once the pundits start getting drone struck. I don't know. Are you getting a bunch of weird technical issues? Inexplicable power outages? Planes falling from the sky spontaneously?

Hym "Speaking of spiraling, what happened to that Epstein victim? She feel like she was being watched? What were he conversations like leading up to her death?"

by Hym Iam April 27, 2025

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The Spiral

Well yeah, I mean I does seem like everything is going to shit but it's a little hard to believe...

Hym "But the spiral aside, 1 trillion dollars? For corporate terrorists!? Is that for me? Wow! I can't wait to see how you attempt to avoid giving it here to loophole the contract that can't have any loopholes Elon. That'll be interesting. I'm not corporate at all though. I don't even wear a suit."

by Hym Iam October 23, 2025

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