Logs, shells, caches and other strange words we use daily - Slawa Gladkov

Logs, shells, caches and other strange words we use daily - Slawa Gladkov

June 20, 2025 | DjangoCon Videos
Have you ever stopped to think about where the words we use in software engineering come from? Terms like “bug” and “debugging” are familiar to most of us, but what about “daemon” or “cache”? This talk takes a trip down memory lane to explore the surprising and often quirky origins of some of the most common words in computing.
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