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pointy clicky

Relying on the pointing and clicking of a computer mouse pointer to accomplish a task, instead of keyboard shortcuts.

In software engineering, this may also refer to accomplishing a task by manually pointing and clicking through a UI, as opposed to writing code to automate the task.

Bob pointy clickied his way though opening Task Manager, instead of using ctrl+alt+delete.

The devops engineer decided to pointy clicky the backup of the production database, which accidentally resulted in all production data being lost.

by ivanmartinvalle April 29, 2020