UK vs US Spelling of Tech Terms: Color or Colour, Program or Programme?

A UK-based blog post about this component's would describe how it reacts to user clicks.

An American engineering blog would write: 'Pick a background that passes contrast checks.'

In a UK team's app store listing, users 'star a repo to add it to their '.

An American Android developer would say: 'The free and paid tiers are two build of the same app.'

A US engineering doc would say: 'You can the keyboard shortcuts in the settings panel.'

A UK README would say: 'We our components by feature instead of by file type.'

A UK code comment would read: 'The constructor is where you the object's starting state.'

An American PR description would say: 'We the response as JSON before sending it over the wire.'

A UK changelog entry would read: 'This job runs nightly to the cache with the database.'

An American performance ticket would say: 'Profile the code first, then the slowest function.'

A UK architecture doc would read: 'Batch the requests to the number of round trips.'

An American security doc would say: 'The middleware checks the token before it will the request.'

An American debugging guide would say: 'Run the profiler to where the memory leak is coming from.'

A UK design system's docs would read: 'We keep a full of reusable components.'

An American CSS tutorial would say: 'Use flexbox to the modal both vertically and horizontally.'

A UK networking article would read: 'The new data centre is connected by a dedicated line.'

A UK incident report would say: 'The deploy was halfway through the rollout.'

An American sprint summary would say: 'We spent the sprint the new database schema.'

A UK networking comment would read: 'The packet is still through three more hops before it arrives.'

An American design system doc would say: 'Disabled buttons are shown in in this design system.'

A UK open-source repo's README would read: 'This repository is released under the MIT .'

This CSS declaration only works with one spelling, no matter which team wrote it: : #1a1a1a;

A British developer describing software they wrote would still say 'I wrote a Python ', not the word British English normally uses for a TV schedule.

Even in UK technical writing, a hard refers to computer storage, not an optical disc.

A UK software product's settings screen would still show a 'Save changes?' box, even though British English elsewhere uses 'dialogue' for a conversation.

British English writes 'programme' for a conference schedule, but for the thing a compiler compiles, it writes .

A UK IT support article about backing up files to an external hard uses the computing spelling, not the optical-media one.