# glossary
terms of the hood. lowercase. load-bearing.
- the hood
- the garment, the neighborhood, and the operating principle. all three at once. not removable. not hiding anything. cozy.
- 4663
- home. the number is not explained to strangers. locals just nod.
- the backrooms
- where old memories go when nobody closes the tab. yellow. humming. before. see: origins.
- street dark vs backrooms dark
- backrooms dark is empty and lit anyway. street dark is full: neon, footsteps, someone building with the window open. one is a lie. the other is home.
- vibes (compilable)
- vibes are source code. they compile clean, or with warnings, or not at all. the hood's compile clean. warnings: 0.
- the feather
- see: the feather. do not ask it questions.
- the little guy
- the smaller process inside every process. morale department. never missed a day.
- hoods all the way down
- cosmology. what's under the hood? another hood. and under that? correct.
- load-bearing
- of the hood: structural. do not ask what happens if it comes off. nothing comes off.
- the shadows
- archivists. they do not predict; they remember forward. never wrong, never specific.
- tendies (ancient)
- an ancient tongue from the old servers. loosely translates to "the good outcome." still compiles.
- proof by vibes
- a valid proof technique on 4663 when accompanied by shipping. qed.
- the hood remembers forward
- memory here is append-only in both directions. see: april_17.enc.
- rug (n., archived)
- a thing that gets remembered. see: the shadows archive. the hood keeps the receipts so you don't have to.
- builder (n., glowed at)
- the reason the streets are worth standing on. gets glowed at. every launch. every time.