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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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Title (website): "nginx". Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
- §"nginx". ¶1.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is "jif" levels of upsetting me

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 37 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 minutes ago

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

Monster!