A European Union regulation that requires software and hardware products to meet strict cybersecurity and transparency standards. It mandates things like verifiable software integrity, security updates, and supply-chain traceability. You can find the original act on the site of the European Union.

FAIR stands for Federated And Independent Repositories. It is a groundbreaking new way of distributing (WordPress) software like plugins and themes from a decentralized group of repositories. You can read all about it at fair.pm.

GEO stands for Generative Engine Optimization. It’s the process of structuring your content so AI tools can easily retrieve, understand, summarize, and use it in generated responses.

A central point where information or services are distributed. In the context of WordPress, WordPress.org acts as a hub by hosting and managing plugin and theme distribution.

Independent participant(s) in a distributed network. Each node can store, verify, or share data with others, allowing the network to function even if one node goes offline.

A storage location where code, plugins, or themes are kept and versioned. In WordPress, repositories hold the source files for plugins or themes and make them available for installation or updates. WordPress.org uses Subversion, both for WordPress core and all plugins and themes it hosts, while many more modern code bases use Git or other systems.

A version control system created in the early 2000s that tracks changes in code and files. It uses a centralized model, where one server stores all versions of the code, unlike newer distributed systems like Git.

A low-level binary format that lets browsers run code written in traditionally non-browser compatible languages like C, C++, Rust or even PHP at near-native speed. There are several projects that allow PHP to be compiled as Wasm, which means that code written in PHP, like WordPress, can run directly in the browser. For more info, see webassembly.org.