[cassianoleal]

I agree.

Just FYI, Kubernetes is abbreviated to k8s, not k8.

> K8s as an abbreviation results from counting the eight letters between the "K" and the "s".

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/

[tentacleuno]

This is very similar to "a11y"[0] and "i18n"[1]. The abbreviation of words using this technique has become surprisingly common in the software industry.

[0]: https://www.wordnik.com/words/a11y [1]: https://www.wordnik.com/words/i18n

[nrabulinski]

It’s called a numeronym https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym

[tentacleuno]

Thank you! I truly do learn something new every day on here.

[bregma]

Sometimes an n7m?

[pseingatl]

Better watch out with Arabic speakers, 7 is used for a sound in Arabic we don't have in English.

[foresto]

I strongly dislike this practice, because it impedes understanding.

"a11y" is especially bad, since it runs counter to the very thing it is supposed to represent.

I hope the fad passes quickly.

[samatman]

I'd say the vision impaired are going to understand what "ay-one-one-why" means about as fast as the rest of us. I'm not a fan of the cutesy letter-number jargon either, if you're typing about it in Slack, sure, okay, but it shouldn't escape confinement.

But it's equal-opportunity annoying I reckon: no one knows what the hell `a11y` is about when they first see/hear it, but not in a way that's more onerous for screen reader and braille users than for anyone else.

[foresto]

I was using the term in the general sense: capable of being understood. Not the narrow sense that refers specifically to vision.

[samatman]

Sure, that's reasonable. Kind of circles back to "a11y" being technical language, which refers to a term of art, "accessibility", which is not identical to the word "accessibility" itself. This is at least part of why it gets used, although the main reason is really that a11y is easy to write and fast to read, while accessibility is neither.

[baq]

i18n was a mystery for the longest time. a11y was just dumb for me until I learned what the numbers meant… last year, after what, two decades?

Btw txn is similar, but they didn’t bother with numbers, they just replaced the middle with an x.

[ASalazarMX]

It's been decades and I still don't know what is the original word for "l33t", but I reckon it must be quite large.

[nikau]

Only the elite know the answer to that

[FergusArgyll]

a16z andreesen horowitz