
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
#define: I'm going pants (Friends)
May 16, 2025 · 1 hr 44 min · 100.4 MB
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Welcome back to #define, our game of obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery. We’ve gathered some awesome friends, new and old, to see who has the best vocabulary and who can trick the everyone else into thinking that they do.
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Featuring:
- Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Matthew Sanabria – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- John Henry Müller – Website, LinkedIn, Bluesky
- Breakmaster Cylinder – Website, X
- Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- 0:00Let's play!
- 0:39Sponsor: Heroku
- 4:21BMC & Friends
- 7:04How the game works
- 8:08Round 1: Baryon
- 8:24Round 1 thinking
- 11:28Round 1 definitions
- 12:34Round 1 guesses
- 16:53Round 1 results
- 19:09Round 2: Jaggies
- 19:24Round 2 thinking
- 20:38Round 2 definitions
- 21:53Round 2 guesses
- 24:54Round 2 results
- 28:37Round 3: Oobleck
- 28:57Sponsor: Retool
- 30:44Round 3 thinking
- 34:21Round 3 definitions
- 35:25Round 3 guesses
- 36:50Round 3 results
- 38:38Round 4: When does the ...
- 39:20Round 4 thinking
- 41:30Round 4 autocompletes
- 42:00Round 4 guesses
- 47:00Round 4 results
- 52:29Round 5: Weird Flix, but OK
- 53:23Round 5 thinking
- 54:13Round 5 synopses
- 55:42Round 5 guesses
- 59:00Round 5 results
- 1:01:34Sponsor: Outshift by Cisco
- 1:02:39Round 6: Penumbra
- 1:03:01Round 6 thinking
- 1:03:43Round 6 definitions
- 1:04:40Round 6 guesses
- 1:06:32Round 6 results
- 1:09:04Round 7: How do you do?
- 1:10:01Round 7 thinking
- 1:13:03Round 7 responses
- 1:15:06Round 7 guesses
- 1:19:37Round 7 results
- 1:24:54Round 8: Clavichord
- 1:25:07Round 8 thinking
- 1:26:20Round 8 definitions
- 1:27:22Round 8 guesses
- 1:30:49Round 8 results
- 1:33:13Round 9: Why is my...
- 1:33:33Round 9 thinking
- 1:35:00Round 9 autocompletes
- 1:36:08Round 9 guesses
- 1:39:05Round 9 results
- 1:40:20And the winner is...
- 1:41:47Post-game analysis
- 1:42:44Bye, friends
- 1:43:37Coming up next week