Know your Interns
This social network let millennials rank their friends in a brutally public “Top 8.” It's making a comeback.
What is MySpace.
In KV v2, doing this to a secret does not actually delete it. Vault basically puts it in the trash and lets you bring it back.
What is delete?
In a Reddit thread asking what IBM really stands for, this depressing three-word answer appeared: “I’ve Been ___.”
What is "Misled"?
In tech, this does not mean feeding your pet. It means using your own product internally to experience what customers experience.
What is dogfooding?
This social network let millennials rank their friends in a brutally public “Top 8.” It's making a comeback.
What is MySpace.
This intern somehow turned a normal suburban house into a small farm, with chickens, ducks, dogs, a cat, and a goose.
Who is David?
Every Vault token gets its own private version of this oddly named storage space — and when the token dies, the whole thing disappears with it.
What is cubbyhole?
When IBM named its new AI coding agent “Bob,” Reddit immediately asked whether everyone at IBM was too young to remember this not-exactly-beloved Microsoft product from the ’90s.
What is Microsoft Bob?
In Vault, this word describes a credential or secret with a limited lifetime that can eventually expire or be revoked.
What is a lease?
Before texting was unlimited, millennials became freakishly good at typing on a phone using this three-letter-per-number system.
What is T9?
This intern’s first job was working at Chick-fil-A during arguably the strangest possible time to start a customer-service job?
What is "Covid"
Vault can give you this reference to a token that cannot log in as the token, but can be used to revoke it. Very “I don’t know your password, but I can ruin your day.”
What is a token accessor?
On r/devops, one engineer warned that while you can store all your application configuration in this tool, someday another admin will discover it and wonder why anyone put everything there.
What is "Vault"?
This term means spending way too much time debating a minor detail instead of the important problem.
What is bikedshedding?
Before Spotify playlists, millennials made these by putting downloaded songs onto a blank disc.
What is a burned CD
This intern admits that their favorite video game is this notoriously rage-inducing multiplayer game.
What is League of Legends?
This secrets engine will encrypt your data, decrypt your data, sign it, hash it — but refuses to actually store the data itself.
What is Transit?
On r/IBM, employees complained about an AI training that compared working with an agent to having one of these — “only faster.”
What is a human coworker?
In distributed systems, including Vault, this consensus algorithm has a name that sounds like something you’d use to survive a shipwreck.
What is Raft?
Gen Z may accuse someone who is deliberately trying to look effortlessly cool of doing this, often for imaginary “points.”
What is aura farming?
This intern has the oddly specific side skill of composing music for this kind of entertainment
What are video games?
Vault would really like to revoke your expired dynamic credential, but the backend won’t answer. After repeated failures, Vault gives the lease this reassuring name.
What is an irrevocable lease?
According to the wisdom of r/sysadmin, you cannot progress to Senior SysAdmin until you have accomplished this unfortunate rite of passage.
What is taking down production?
This three-letter business acronym describes a framework for setting a goal and defining the measurable results that show whether you achieved it.
What are OKRs?
When someone completely loses their composure, makes terrible decisions, and perhaps torches their reputation in the process, Gen Z says they did this.
What is "crashed out"?