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They should put the meaning of "TTS" in the readme somewhere, probably near the top. Or their website.

TTS is a very common initialism for Text-to-Speech going back to at least the 90s.

So? Acronym soup is bad communication.

I miss glossaries.

Good writing rules can still be used even for repo READMEs where the first time an acronym is used it is spelled out to show what the acronym means. Too many assumptions being made that everyone is going to know it. Sometimes the author can be too inside baseball and assumes anyone reading their README will already know about the subject. Not all devs are literature majors and probably just never think about these things

An AI-powered browser extension that shows on hover the most likely acronym meaning, based on context you say?

I've used this one for a hot minute a few weeks ago: https://lumetrium.com/definer/

It also can be configured to use Ollama or an API key from other providers (OpenRouter included) and from what I gather the default prompt can be changed too.

Sadly it's closed source.

Yeah, it's a very common initialism for people who work in the space, and have some context.

Table Top Simulator.

It's obviously an AI for playing wargames without having to bother painting all the miniatures, or finding someone with the same weird interest in Balkan engagements during the Napoleonic era.

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