Why do so many gems end in fu?
Not that this make it clear to me, but here is what Google says “define: fu”.
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It is, as @meagar said, a play on ‘kung-fu’. It’s an old, old practice. A few plugins for the GIMP are called ***-fu, and you can hear people say that their vim-fu is strong, to say that someone is particularly skilled with vim.