{"id":1089,"date":"2025-12-18T10:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:09:07","slug":"its-all-greek-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2025\/12\/18\/its-all-greek-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all Greek to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my post about <a href=\"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2024\/03\/12\/proofuction\/\">Proofuction<\/a> I described that term as the state a system is in when it was created as a proof of concept and rushed into production use without the usual productionization steps being taken.<\/p>\n<p>A related set of terms I would like to coin is with respect to early versions of things being described as <strong><em>Alpha<\/em><\/strong> or <strong><em>Beta<\/em><\/strong>. Often with proofuction systems, components are included that aren&#8217;t really ready for prime time.<\/p>\n<p>I propose the following new greek letter designations:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gamma:<\/strong> like Alpha or Beta, but radioactive, unstable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delta:<\/strong> Like Alpha or Beta, but constantly changing and requiring updates.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you all can think of examples of these in your own proofuction projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my post about Proofuction I described that term as the state a system is in when it was created as a proof of concept and rushed into production use without the usual productionization steps being taken. A related set of terms I would like to coin is with respect to early versions of things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}