Welcome to tech, here’s your jargon translator

Steve Howe
5 min readOct 28, 2021

So you’ve landed a job in tech. Congratulations!

But don’t pop that bubbly just yet, because the real work starts here. Namely: do you speak tech?

No? Don’t panic. Just bookmark this handy jargon translator — you’ll be confidently serving up the hottest buzzwords and impressing your peers in no time. Because to speak tech is to be tech.

Two people speaking fluent tech. Photo by Jason Goodman on Unsplash

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Steve Howe

Writer for UX, games, and mental health orgs. Background in teaching, translation, and support for vulnerable people. Loves languages, long runs, and bad puns.