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type: glossary
created: 2026-10-17
tags: [glossary, english]
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# Glossary

Terms met while working on viexp. Reuse each term in your own sentence before moving it to
the "active" mental column.

| Term / phrase | Translation | Where I met it | My example sentence |
| ------------- | ----------- | -------------- | ------------------- |
| bootstrap | первичная настройка | devlog 2026-10-17 | We bootstrapped the repo before writing code. |
| milestone | веха, контрольная точка | roadmap | Sprint 3 ends at the first daily-driver milestone. |
| trade-off | компромисс | research notes | Every plugin system is a trade-off. |
| dogfooding | использование своего продукта ежедневно | fm research | We start dogfooding after Sprint 3. |
| out of the box | «из коробки», без настройки | README | Image preview works out of the box. |
| fallback | запасной вариант | preview research | chafa is the fallback when graphics protocols fail. |