Tech Idioms Here are five commonly used idioms in tech: (1) Bikeshedding. To bikeshed is to devote way too much time and energy working on and optimizing trivial issues—that are often hypothetical future problems that don’t exist yet—instead of focusing on what’s actually important right now. (2) Yak Shaving. Yak shaving is to start working on one task that leads you to perform another, and results in a seemingly never ending queue of tasks, diverting you from the original goal. (3) Rubber Ducking. To rubber duck, or to rubber duck debug, is to explain your code or problem aloud in hopes that the process of describing it and hearing it aloud will help you diagnose your problem. Often times it does! (4) Bus Factor. A bus factor is a measure of the level of responsibility and knowledge a person or team holds. The lower the factor, the riskier it is if that person were to leave the team. (5) Dogfooding. To eat your own dog food, or to dogfood, is to have the team that made the product use the product themselves before releasing it to the public. levelup.gitconnected.com/demystify…