Yakshaving refers to doing work that seems pointless but is necessary to achieve a goal later down the line. In the SerenityOS developer community on Discord, yakshaving is pretty prevalent (after all ...

While the use of phrases like "bumping this gem" was commonplace on /qa/ [1] as early as March 2018, gem and coal-centric Soyjaks did not gain notable traction on 4chan's /qa/ board until 2020. Shown ...