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tweak
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To make minor adjustments in an electronic system or in a software program in order to improve performance. See calibrate.

1.tweak - To change slightly, usually in reference to a value. Also used synonymously with twiddle. If a program is almost correct, rather than figure out the precise problem you might just keep tweaking it until it works. See frobnicate and fudge factor; also see shotgun debugging.
2.tweak - To tune or bum a program; preferred usage in the UK.
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The poetry soothes, the rooftop lawn is effortlessly mown--and the cute, tweaky, intelligent architecture of the 40-year-olds is being ignored by the new kids on the block.
Peter Cook: the Oslo architecture scene is now a mere shadow of its ... by Cook, Peter / The Architectural Review
Dunno if it's a recent one or kinda old, but I get the idea that they are mostly the same: People send in random bits of found stuff that is generally on the tweaky or funny side, such as love notes between junior high kids, bizarre photos, notes left on cars, etc.
Zine thing by Thrasher
Swept clean of portents and mutations, it seems to be saying something of genuine import about nature and antinature: that is, not much, except that there they are, in the tweaky crystalline light of Claritin advertisements, and it's hard to tell them apart.
L.C. ARMSTRONG by Ziolkowski, Thad / Artforum International
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