The Old New Thing

Microspeak: Bucket bugs, bucket spray, bug spray, and failure shift

January 21, 2020 Jan 21, 2020 01/21/20

Raymond Chen

How failures in the wild get categorized by analysis.

Microspeak: Occupant compression

April 16, 2019 Apr 16, 2019 04/16/19

Raymond Chen

Ouch, it hurts when you squeeze me there.

Obsolete Microspeak: TDBN and the six-pack

August 29, 2018 Aug 29, 2018 08/29/18

Raymond Chen

Old Windows 8 terminology.

Microspeak: knobs

June 19, 2018 Jun 19, 2018 06/19/18

Raymond Chen

Configuration settings, basically.

Microspeak: ZBB, recall class, glide path, and RTM

May 8, 2018 May 8, 2018 05/8/18

Raymond Chen

Bug tracking jargon.

Microspeak: Tented

April 25, 2018 Apr 25, 2018 04/25/18

Raymond Chen

No peeking into the tent.

Microspeak: The triad, the ad-hoc acronyms that result, and the arithmetic problem 3 × 3

March 6, 2018 Mar 6, 2018 03/6/18

Raymond Chen

There are six possible ways of arranging them. Surely one of them must look good.

Microspeak: POR

February 6, 2018 Feb 6, 2018 02/6/18

Raymond Chen

The plan of record.

Microspeak sighting: over-index

January 29, 2018 Jan 29, 2018 01/29/18

Raymond Chen

It's like birdwatching, but for words.

Microspeak: Impedance mismatch

January 23, 2018 Jan 23, 2018 01/23/18

Raymond Chen

Any kind of mismatch, really.