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TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx" (self.programmer_humor)
submitted 1 day ago by Kalcifer to c/[email protected]
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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.

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  1. Title (website): "nginx". Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
    • §"nginx". ¶1.
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What’s the difference? Those read the same to me. Do you mean that you want a strong gap between “gre” and the S in S-Q-L?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The first one is post-grez-queue-el, the second one is post-gree-es-queue-el

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The first is the only way that makes sense, the second too easily becomes post-grease-queue-el. Which is horrible.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I will be calling it post-grease from now on.