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TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx" (sh.itjust.works)
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nginx ("engine x") is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server. […] [1]

I still pronounce it as "n-jinx" in my head.

References

  1. Title (website): "nginx". Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
    • §"nginx". ¶1.
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[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

This is "jif" levels of upsetting me

[-] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago

[-] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 20 hours ago

I pronounce gif like zyhfe to annoy both jif and gif pronouncers equally. I also advocate for the initial array index to be .5 to be equally annoying to programmers and mathematicians alike.

[-] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

I also advocate for the initial array index to be .5 to be equally annoying to programmers and mathematicians alike.

Monster!

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