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Engineering Dictionary

Frontend

  • graceful degradation: a design philosophy that centers on showing the best experience to most capable devices, then falling back to a usable experience for less capable devices; alternatively, using polyfills can be used to make old browsers compatible.
  • progressive enhancement: a design philosophy that's the inverse of graceful degradation; alternatively, feature detection can be used to upgrade experiences from simple ones to better ones on capable devices.

Backend

Management

  • 1:1: a short meeting between the manager and the individual contributor, usually 30 minutes, that occurs weekly or biweekly.
  • radical candor: a management technique that involves giving kind but direct feedback to team members.