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Logs, shells, caches and other strange words we use daily
DjangoCon Europe 2025 · June 4, 2025
Slawa Gladkov traces everyday software terms back to maritime navigation, engineering, physics, linguistics, and early computing. Logs began as ship logbooks based on a wooden device for measuring speed; caches came from the French word for hiding supplies and were later associated with squirrels; daemons…