There's no real reason for it to annoy me so much, but I was just thinking about how I can't stand when people seemingly randomly capitalize words relating to technology without the intention of drawing emphasis to them: GIT, NODE, JIRA, JAVA... why??

In the case of Jira, it was in the past officially stylised by Atlassian as JIRA.

I think people sometimes like to imagine that these things are acronyms even though they aren't.

I think people sometimes JUST do it for NO good reason other than to DRAW emphasis

Thought this was about accessibility stuff.

like c$ADA

Hard to say; it was submitted like that. To me ADA means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Ac..., so I've recased the title above.

@dang Yeah, I don't think this should be in caps. Ada was the woman's name.

Probably an autocorrect; the language is less commonly used than the Americans with disabilities act.

This drives me crazy: whenever I type 'emacs' on my iPad, I get 'emasculated' (and the iPad keeps insisting on it even when I try to correct the word).

It should autocorrect as the female name Ada, my phone does.

Yes, the language is named after Ada Lovelace - a person credited with writing one of the first computer programs. It is not an acronym.