Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor

"o11y" stands for "observability".

Numeronyms are evil and we should stop using them.

Thanks. My mind started running the random string generator given those restrictions, like a puzzle game. But had no idea of what it meant until you wrote it. Who invented that stupid idea and thought it would be a good one?

because its easily googlable.

counter point - people are going to use them, better to expose newbies early and often and then everyone is better off

shorthands will always be in demand. we used to say “horseless carriage”, then “automobile”, then “car”. would you rather use Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation or just “laser”s? etc

in the new york times? sure, spell out observability. but on HN? come on. the term is 7 years old and is used all over the site. it’s earned it

You're right, avoiding them gives better a11y

I've never seen it before.

t4s, couldn't agree more.

no we drive to work in our h16e to set up the l47n

Or we could use words that don't require people to use Google just to be able to read. A dependence on a search engine for reading text is unnecessary.

If you find typing tedious just use autocomplete or other tools instead of making it the readers' problem.