https://jvq.net/tags/the-name/ Recent content in The Name on JVQ.net Hugo en-us Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jvq.net/why-the-benchmark-gate-is-called-jvq-for-just-very-quickly/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jvq.net/why-the-benchmark-gate-is-called-jvq-for-just-very-quickly/ <p>jvq stands for just very quickly. It&rsquo;s what you say when someone asks whether a change will slow things down. &ldquo;It only adds a check, it&rsquo;ll run just very quickly.&rdquo; Most of the time that&rsquo;s true. Sometimes it isn&rsquo;t, and nobody finds out until the dashboards turn red a month later.</p> <p>The tool exists for the second case. It takes the words at face value and checks them, on every pull request, against the code before the change.</p>