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What Does That Stand For, Anyway?

Find the1 meaning of that acronym you've always been curious about!

Inspired by @ReluctusB's WDRBSFA site.

screenshot of the project defining "RB" to mean "Regular Bake"

Usage

The acronym to define is specified with the a query parameter.

It will replace "That" in the heading text with the acronym being defined and show a meaning below that.

To disable the preset word lists, use the query parameter preset with a value of false.

To add word lists, use the query parameter w with the url as the value. This parameter can be used multiple times.

The word lists must be plain text with one word per line.

Example

https://csos95.github.io/define-acronym/?a=rb

Build

This project uses shadow-cljs to compile ClojureScript to javascript. You'll need a java sdk and node.js installed.

To compile, run npx shadow-cljs release frontend.

The compiled output will be in public/js.

Run

Use some http server to serve the public directory.

As an example, to serve with python's built in http server on port 8080, run python -m http.server 8080.

Footnotes

  1. Almost certainly incorrect unless you get very lucky.

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Displays a random meaning for an acronym from a word list.

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