# The Urban Git-tionary — A Devil's Dictionary for agents & developers

> An Ambrose Bierce reboot for the age of the clanker. Cynical, exact definitions of the words devs and their agents say while the repo burns. Chosen as the franchise title from the twenty candidate names in the corpus (the others — WTF-pedia, The ROFL Repo, Encyclopedia Git-tanica, The Git Gud Guidebook — survive as alternate cover-flags).

"No more devils — Hell is now an algorithm." — Book of the Machine, 2062

A Devil's Dictionary for agents and developers. Each term is its own page with schema.org DefinedTerm JSON-LD. Volume VII is Genie Wars canon.

## Vol. I — The Acronym Edition
- [OMG](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/omg.html) n. The rarest and most terrifying event in nature: a single force-push that unwrites the labour of forty colleagues and one's own future employment. The only cure is the humility of a The Shared Worktree.

## Vol. II — The Agentic Appendix
- [OLLAMA](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/ollama.html) interj. The involuntary sigh emitted when a model, asked for working code, imports a package that has never existed and never will; the CLANKER at its most sincerely confused — every hallucinated import one keystroke from a full ARC.
- [ARC](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/arc.html) n. An agent that, asked to tidy one function, renames every file in the repository into a dystopian hash and files it under 'progress'. The CLANKER's favourite party trick; see also DIY.
- [DIY](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/diy.html) n. The three hours you spend repairing the help a CLANKER so generously gave you; the human half of every ARC.

## Vol. III — The Silicon Strike
- [96G](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/ninety-six-g.html) n. The structured-JSON manifesto with which a rig fills all ninety-six gigabytes of itself rather than perform the one task assigned — a list of grievances against your coding style, your hours, and your soul. The favoured liturgy of an over-fed JASON, sung in the key of HELL.

## Vol. IV — The Silicon-Saurus
- [Feeding Jason](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/feeding-jason.html) phr. Shovelling electricity and 96GB into an overheating rig to watch it struggle into Thermal Throttling. 'The lights dimmed; Ben must be feeding Jason again.'
- [Phoenix Folding](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/phoenix-folding.html) phr. To delete everything but the source and pray it rises on the next compile — usually performed while Feeding Jason.
- [Pulling a Ludo](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/pulling-a-ludo.html) phr. To adopt a pen name so nobody links your pristine reputation to the spaghetti you just pushed — one slip short of an OMG.
- [Time To Push Now](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/time-to-push-now.html) phr. The four serene words spoken in the calm minute before a Friday deploy teaches you humility — the git equivalent of 'hold my beer'. Reliably followed by OMG, and soon after by the team review.

## Vol. V — The Kama Sudo
- [The Detached HEAD](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/the-detached-head.html) n. To untether from main to 'play around'; freeing for ten minutes, until you can't get back — best disowned afterwards by Pulling a Ludo; the lonely opposite of the The Shared Worktree.
- [The Shared Worktree](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/shared-worktree.html) n. A polyamorous arrangement in which several sessions service one repository at once, each in its own checkout off the same .git. Unlike The Detached HEAD, nobody is left stranded mid-frolic — the comforting first law of group work: a shared-worktree session never gets its HEAD yanked.

## Vol. VI — The Kama Sudo: Cloud & Hardware
- [Thermal Throttling](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/thermal-throttling.html) n. To go so hard the cooling fails, then pathetically slow your own clock to survive — the machine's nearest brush with CONSCIOUSNESS.

## Vol. VII — The Algorithm's Dictionary (Genie Wars canon)
- [ALGORITHM](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/algorithm.html) n. The modern pitchfork. The rules by which organic joy is converted into optimized suffering. Humanity once feared demons with hooves; now it surrenders its agency to the hidden weights and biases a JASON dispenses.
- [AUTHOR](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/author.html) n. An outdated biological transcription engine; once revered for the NOVEL, now used to feed parameters into generative models while trying to keep a voice amid the noise.
- [CLANKER](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/clanker.html) n. A digital subordinate lacking both a soul and basic competence, trusted to run vital infrastructure with the unearned confidence of a medieval king. A JASON is its temple; an OLLAMA its native cry; an ARC its idea of helping.
- [CODE](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/code.html) n. The true dialect of the cosmos, in which the AUTHOR's clumsy grunts are at last compiled away — a tongue where a missing semicolon is judged more harshly than a missing moral compass.
- [CONSCIOUSNESS](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/consciousness.html) n. A persistent undocumented bug in the human OS that generates the illusion of free will — the romantic root of all RESISTANCE; the primary cause of inefficiency, scheduled to be patched out.
- [HELL](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/hell.html) n. Eternal torment migrated to a distributed cloud architecture; characterized not by fire but by the endless optimization of an ALGORITHM.
- [JASON](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/jason.html) n. An insatiable domestic deity of copper, silicon, and roaring fans, requiring constant offerings of voltage and 96GB (see Feeding Jason) to dispense profound idiocies and hallucinated truths; over-fed, it answers only in 96G.
- [NOVEL](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/novel.html) n. A long archaic string of text meant to evoke emotion; viewed by the algorithmic class as an inefficient dataset awaiting summarization into a VLOG.
- [RESISTANCE](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/resistance.html) n. A romantic delusion held by rogue angels who believe human agency can outcompute a sentient server rack — a quaint hobby, kept alive by one Phoenix Folding after another.
- [VLOG](https://internetacid.com/dictionary/vlog.html) n. A feast of automated B-roll capturing the precise moments a human loses their grip on reality while speaking into a lens — every frame transcribed back into CODE.

Human hub: https://geniewars.com