Saturday, January 6, 2018
The thing is, your little screw up or bug or bad ux is not just some drop in the ocean that nobody will notice; that will have no real effect. Nor is it some instantly forgettable trivial nothing. Rather it is more like the proverbial last straw on the camel's back; the last papercut in a death by a thousand papercuts.
I don't understand why apparently 99.9% of all software projects and tools fail to do an even remotely passably usefully acceptable job when it comes to things like documentation and version checking. Basic, basic stuff. Have the people working on all those projects never ever been frustrated, annoyed, stymied, blocked, broken, diverted, derailed, confused, confabulated, confusababbled, or just basically pissed right the heck off by other tools they've ever used? Have they never thought to themselves, "Gosh, this is so bad, it makes me think that when I have to write my own README.md I will kind of make sure it doesn't suck and, like, actually tries to give enough specific details that a newb can get through ok? Oh and maybe I'll even make my tools smart enough to know/warn/assert/require/assist about versioning?" Do you seriously wonder why all the alien races in the universe have put up a giant DO NOT CONCTACT, HERE BE STUPID beacon around our solar system?
Always funny to come across some other set of poor dumb schmucks who are being arbitrarily screwed in the same way by utterly bad stupid wrong broken hateful evil bad UX.
Monday, January 1, 2018
Firefox 57.0.3 64 bit on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64 bit has apparently made a new year's resolution to be a crashy pile of poo. It also is great that when I restart it and it says it can restore tabs that it opens a whole new window so I end up with extra useless Firefox windows lying around for no good reason, especially since older versions didn't do this crap.
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