A measurement of length of a piece of writing, particularly when indicating a length excessive for the genre. A Yegge is approximately 4000
words or 25 kilobytes.
Named for well known programmer and technical blogger Steve Yegge, whose
blog up to about 2009 was notorious for entries of approximately 1 or 2 Yegges in length, vastly exceeding the typical length of
blog entries in the genre.