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[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I worked at a place where the asset management system was called "ASS" and yes, publishing assets was called "pushing to ASS". Unfortunately management eventually made the developer change it.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At work, work is assigned to people through a system that contains a Value Assessment Gate. Work frequently gets stuck in the VAG, which is the code used to interact with that component. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to get things out of the VAG, and when they do come out, it's called flowing out/on

[–] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My old job had a deployment script called shipmyself. The developer who wrote it brought it up by name whenever possible. He really enjoyed it.

[–] bright@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

You have to be careful when the input is discharged from the system