Fun Programming Acronyms

The lighter side of coding

RTFM

Read The Fine Manual

(or Friendly, depending on who you ask)

PEBCAK

Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard

💺

PICNIC

Problem In Chair, Not In Computer

User error, basically

GIGO

Garbage In, Garbage Out

Bad input = Bad output

LGTM

Looks Good To Me

Classic code review response

RTFSC

Read The Source Code

When docs aren't enough

WFM

Works For Me

Can't reproduce your bug... 🤷

YOLO

You Only Live Once

Deploying on Friday? YOLO!

KISS

Keep It Simple, Stupid

Simplicity > Complexity

YAGNI

You Ain't Gonna Need It

Don't over-engineer!

SNAFU

Situation Normal: All Fouled Up

Just another day in production

FUBAR

Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition

When SNAFU isn't strong enough

WONTFIX

Won't Fix

Closing issue... it's a feature!

TL;DR

Too Long; Didn't Read

Give me the summary

AFAIK

As Far As I Know

Don't quote me on this...

IMHO

In My Humble Opinion

(Usually not that humble)

IIRC

If I Recall Correctly

Memory might be fuzzy

PITA

Pain In The... Acronym

That one difficult task

HAND

Have A Nice Day

Signing off!

TTYL

Talk To You Later

Keep coding! ✨

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