Programmer Humor

You have to say it in a commanding Japanese accent... Engine X

It sounds way cooler that way

I really dislike the trend of made up pronunciations. I can accept that gnome is with an audible g since that makes more sense than a silent g, but nginx can be at best similar to engine-x, but even then it's more like the n in dnd rather than en.

It took a while for me to get it, but it still read ngnix as "n.g. -nix" in my head.

One time I was getting estimates for server software for an embedded device I had made. In a teleconference, I told one company that our prototype server ran on nginx. They emailed us an estimate saying we had to switch our embedded system to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, and put the server on Microsoft's cloud, because "Engine X is not an enterprise web server."

I always heard it as /ŋiŋks/ in my mind

I can't stop pronouncing USAID as u said even after i finally heard it instead of just reading it

I will be dead and buried in the ground before I call nginx "engine x"

Does this mean when you go into an airport bathroom and see the hand dryer, you know it's called an XLerator (ex-LAIReighter)?

“Nugginx” is how I have always read it

I just kind of knew that, but not sure how.