It's called the link. All an author has to do is link the first instance of an acronym or piece of jargon to some authoritative description, and you get the best of both worlds: readers familiar with e.g. CRDTs[0] can just keep reading, and the rest can click the link and find out.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...
It is especially useful when writing a technical document that utilizes multiple products/stacks/terms. Creating links to quality sources for those items gives someone new to the content a good source to go deeper into those pieces while allowing me to focus the article on the specific aspect I'm writing about.
Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (<a href="...">CRDT</a>)
A lot of people seem to be questioning why you'd need this when you could just provide a full link. Personally I read a lot of technical documentation and having acronyms written out in full would almost always be enough. Otherwise the whole document is likely over my head, or it's just a bad acronym.
The video also gives good context for the article, even for a beginner to the topic.
Hypertext is great, links are practically free, I encourage authors to be liberal in applying them.
The same arguments for and against using libraries apply here, and it's up to the author which works best for their piece.
Just like libraries, sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't the best approach.
For example, in a "How to do $BASIC_THING in python" article, putting an intro of "This is what a variable is" may not be a bad idea. Meanwhile, in a "Writing an operating system from scratch in an esolang I wrote" article, maybe you'd be better off linking to previous blog posts or other resources.
Obviously these are both extreme examples, but I think it's still a valid view.
Anyway, blog author here - sorry I didn't explain CRDTs earlier in the piece. It didn't occur to me that people would be confused.
It never ceases to amaze me how many websites for restaurants or whatever neglect to mention basic things like what state (and country) they're in. Even newspaper web sites assume that we know that the "Chronicle" or the "Ledger" or whatever generic name is the local paper for East Bumblefuck.
Which they can easily provide themselves.
> If everything is written with jargon and abbreviations with no context [...]
It is not, for the intended audience.