> This blog post is so watered down and manages to digress at every possible point that it is almost impossible to read.

Its target audience appears to be ten-year-olds, yet it's inexplicably devoid of memes.

the target audience is managers and bookkeepers who see the sophos invoice every month but have no idea what they do.

here is the blog post in meme form, for your convenience: https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/67508702/look-at-me-...

I do in team chat. It's obvious enough in context, as in "hey can you deploy, I just patched this urgent vuln: [url to ticket]"

You won't see me using it in an email or other long form writing though.

Yep, chat makes sense. Thank you for actually stating a use-case.

> Next time u c a shrt'd wrd u cn just ass. it's useful. B/c they r.

They aren't always useful but I've rewritten your sentence in what I would consider a minimally legible format for me... but that's the problem it's for me. Don't introduce jargon in an effort to reduce comprehension time, it almost never works if you consider the time to familiarize yourself with the jargon. So when you're writing a blog post about PHP feel free to sprinkle in some comments about var vars, when you're communicating with your team use all your internal jargon... but when publishing an article for wide consumption just write everything out clearly.

4 sr i dt ths T

(for some reason I doubt that's true)

I read this as "for sure I do this too"

Not really, I have seen a lot of unneeded abbreviations. Thankfully we are (almost) out of the age of 140c messages and 40c editor lines.

But more to the point, 'vulns' seems like a very unnatural abbreviation. I would go with v11n (similar to i18n).

> But more to the point, 'vulns' seems like a very unnatural abbreviation. I would go with v11n (similar to i18n).

Please no. I really don't like that convention and would rather you just type out the whole word if that's the alternative. Worse yet, for some reason you've decided to end in `n` rather than `y`.

How can you dismiss the first four letters as an "unnatural" abbreviation, and then suggest inserting digits to represent the number of characters removed as an alternative? I'm not following that logic at all.

Oh please _please_ don't. i18n is a terribly obscure term with no implicit link to the actual word. This is a place where "naming things is hard" but for big concept chose short concise terminology while letting the details get lost in the verbose verbiage. Whenever I see i18n I just weep over the fact they didn't use the term "lang", internationalization is complicated and hard to shorten due to other meaningful jargon around it but there are better options than the dumpster fire which is i18n.

> Whenever I see i18n I just weep over the fact they didn't use the term "lang"

That's a bad idea because "lang" or "language" is already dangerously overloaded. People casually use it to mean any of (actual) language, locale (language + region (+ script, maybe)), script, or any combination of the above.

Terms like i18n and l10n are bad for a11y.

> Terms like i18n and l10n are bad for a11y.

Thank you for that, I am definitely stealing that phrasing.

v11n meaning vulnerabilitn presumably ;)

I was picturing villain with an implied evil laughter.

Until now you apparently haven't been keeping a busy person typing in chat into account. Now you can. This use case isn't unique to the vuln/vulnerability abbreviation, but plenty of others. Including confusing ones like "i left you a vm" (virtual machine? where?).

As a security consultant, sure we do. But I'd never use it in a customer report or company blog post if I felt I needed to explain the abbreviation.

"vuln" is pretty commonly used in the security industry

> Does anyone actually use this abbreviation?

More common in plural (vulns). However, it sounds oddly vulgar in my ears.

It's weird because when you read vulnerability (or at least when I say it) the first phoneme effectively becomes 'vun' - but in the abbreviated form one feels the need to mentally enunciate the 'l'.

I think the dropped l might just be your locale. I certainly pronounce it in the full word.

It's because vul-ner-a-bil-i-ty is being chopped in the middle of a syllable "ner",

"Vulner" is more pleasant than "vuln"

> oddly vulgar

My initial reaction was 'linguistically disgusting', but I decided to hold off the opinion, just in case I am strangely illiterate.

I've typed it, but I dunno if I've ever said it out loud. Kind of like i18n.

Same here. It is used internally here as a written abbreviation, and we use it as a prefix in a numbering scheme to identify a certain category of defects, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone use it verbally.

I have heard it used.

Vuln is a common abbreviation in the security space - although, I dont appreciate parts of the sentence structure and how things are written in the article in general. Its difficult to read.

u r n0t 1337 h4xx0r

This sounds like it was written by the same guy who started the "Hacker known as 4Chan" meme

I uz vuln evry day n sware dev.

Zerocool and Neo do.

no, I want to abbr I use v, and a for att.

Totes.