https://ukue.com/tags/the-name/ Recent content in The Name on ukue.com Hugo en-us Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ukue.com/why-u-stands-for-micro-how-the-ukue-job-queue-got-its-name/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ukue.com/why-u-stands-for-micro-how-the-ukue-job-queue-got-its-name/ <p>ukue is meant to be read as µkue, a micro queue. Plenty of people will say &ldquo;you-queue&rdquo; instead, and that&rsquo;s fine. The u is a stand-in for the real sign of micro, the Greek letter μ, and the story of how one turned into the other is older than computers.</p> <p>Micro comes from the Greek <em>mikrós</em>, &ldquo;small&rdquo;, and in Greek that word starts with μ, their letter m. When the metric system gave its prefixes one-letter symbols, the Latin m was already taken by milli, a thousandth. So micro, a millionth, got the Greek m. That&rsquo;s why a microsecond is written µs and a microfarad µF.</p>