penance

That's domination - the threat of force if penance is not paid.

Proprietary plugins sounds good to me. Working with nastier code will be their penance.

Hopefully this would promote better design; alternatively, it could be used as a form of penance.

I use both frameworks for work and posted my article because Rick Waldron asked me too as penance for a bit too much snark on my behalf.

Written partly in penance, the new book deftly handles material the older book stumbles over.

They encourage a group confessional and penance to be absolved of your behaviour or crimes while wasted.

Finishes up penance and walks away thinking that he has earnestly evaluated his own wastefulness.

If you really find that pseudo-religious penance is beneficial to your smug sense of superiority then wear a hairshirt while you program.

Ever since, I've taken it as a sort of penance to try and share what little of this stuff I've started to understand whenever I see people talking about these issues the way I used to.

I was hoping the physical toll it would have on me would quell the stirrings of my subconscious like some sort of sick penance, so should the thought of eating meat ever reoccur I could be satisfied that at least I had tried…Only two weeks into my plant-based diet I felt that same feeling as when you first put on your glasses and everything around you becomes less hazy.