October Queso

1. IBM Blockchain is a digital ledger (database) for an accounting history of transactions. Bitcoin transactions are managed this way.
2. Vevo is some sort of video-for-the-web website full of music videos.
3. clickbait is stuff that draws your eye online and tries to get you to click upon it thusly
4. The build apparatus for Angular 4, in contrast to that of Angular 2 will do some tree shaking of what it builds and not loop in walled-off, unused code.
5. Reshma Saujani is the creator of Girls Who Code. I saw a CNN.com interview with her in which she drops the name Wag! as the name of a dog-walking app, but more interestingly this interview suggests there are 500,000 open computer science jobs (USA) and 215,000 to 40,000 grads a year (USA) to fill the jobs. Me and my little Associates degree in computer graphics thus get a seat at the table amid the drought. Ha!
6. Chart.js is... something to do with charts.
7. Breeze.js apparently lets you do the LINQesque stuff you might do with underscore and also has things like validations and triggers.
8. EpiServer CMS is a CMS (content management system).
9. A subreddit is like a categorization or channel on reddit such as: "Today I Learned"
10. Paintbrush is to Windows 3.1 what Paint is to modern Windows.
11. staff aug (short for staff augmentation) is the consulting business model of putting butts in seats in a client's cube farm somewhere and little more than that, i.e. (short for id est) no real consulting
12. PvP is Player vs Player in gaming, a term for fighting or at least messing with other human beings through avatars in game in lieu of just dueling "the computer" so to speak.
13. Azure Notification Hub is for mobile push notifications.
14. Big Design Up Front (BDUF) is a Waterfall thing.
15. Zsh is both a shell and a scripting language.
16. Blue Coat is owned by Symantec and provides some sort of cybersecurity.
17. I have learned that with Entity Framework there is a schematics feature that will allow you to create CRUD logic from classes to MVC views, all wired-up, around a given database table. Also, there is a templating system for this stuff so that you may doctor-up the default barf into your own desired shapes in an easy-to-repeat way without you constantly manually doctoring-up what is rendered.
18. To get rid of your Instagram account click on the icon that looks like a person (head and shoulders) at the upperleft (assuming you're at a laptop, not a phone) and then click "Edit Profile" and finally "Temporarily disable my account" and, yes, this will ask you for your password. If you created the account off of your Facebook specs you will need to go through the process of botching a manual login and resetting the password that way to satisfy this condition.
19. JRPG stands for Japanese role-playing game.
20. Gradle is yet another build tool.
21. Alienware is yet another variety of laptop. These are geared for gaming.
22. The SAS programming language is for statistical analysis. R would be the open source alternative for this language.
23. Waffle is a project management solution.
24. f.lux adjusts the "color temperature" of your monitor's display. Instead of showing blue light that your brain reads as "The sun is up." it will show more red light towards a day's end to help your brain get ready to go to bed, etc.
25. FluentValidation by Jeremy Skinner is a C# validations framework.
26. Middleman is a website framework for AS/400.
27. Selenese is the language of Selenium for finding controls in HTML, etc.
28. Yak shaving is performing small inane tasks over and over again when writing code. Yay!
29. OpenCL or Open Computing Language uses the CPUs on different platforms for parallel programming.
30. How many angels may dance on the head of a pin? As many as want to? Maybe not. Moore's law, named for a Gordon Moore, suggests the number of transistors that may fit on the head of a pin (integrated circuits for electronics) is ever growing greater over time. However, there is going to be a point where we as human beings cannot make stuff any smaller. The old Steve Martin joke about being too small resurfaces and at this point how do we advance tech? The cap should be reached just a handful of years away. Maybe everyone who hates to learn can just stop learning soon.
31. There is something called an AdWalker for android phones which tried to hide ads in apps. It would walk all of your apps and doctor their aesthetics. In order to install it you had to be able to have admin access to your phone and that meant you would root your phone which took a flash/reflash of the firmware. The AdWalker is probably a bit out of date at this point.
32. Slack has bought Screenhero and allows (inside of Slack now) for one to share their screen in a GoToMeeting fashion, however, better than GoToMeeting, there is no handing of controls back and forth to work. Instead both parties, or even as many as fifteen parties, may all use their mice at once. Your name just appears by your mouse at the displays of others. I thought of that old SubSpace game from the 1990s. As I recall, as you flew about your handle would float there by your spaceship or maybe it was how many points you were worth to kill. I can't remember. You would have a label by your icon. The Screenhero stuff is one of the not-for-free features of Slack. Message retention beyond a cap of ten thousand is another.
33. Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, is now the world's richest person and not Bill Gates.
34. If a retailer makes its clientele swipe cards in lieu of using "the chip" then the realtor is liable for eating the cost of the purchase in the event of a fraud claim and not the credit card company itself as had been the case before the chip and is the case now with the chip.