TinkerCAD is so totally awesome!!!

Except for all the ways it is not.

I've been doing computers since... the ZX81. I've been through all the generations of Web stuff. I've worked at hot-name web startups. I've worked at giant massive juggernaut 600 pound gorilla megacorps. And across all that time and space, I have never ever ever never never never at all anywhere ever never never seen anything in the server side of web 'development' that wasn't just a complete unmitigated bare-assed transparently obvious in-your-face broken piece of utter fetid stinking dog turd junk when it comes to usability, to user experience.

None of the tools I've ever used (nginx, lighttpd, apache, tomcat, et. al.) have ever had anything approaching an actually usable, debuggable, sane, well documented, powerful, ecosystem. They just have crappy weird home-grown stupid awful configuration syntaxes (is that a word? oh well) and feed-forward-only development cycles.

But then the extra kicker is that all of that junk is sitting on top of all the horribleness that is everything else about the Web. Combine that horrible server-side UX with all the problems of web caches, browsers caching things, dns issues, etc. and I think it is pretty clear why all extraterrestrials have stayed right the hell away from this planet of complete buffoons.

Can there be
A greater Evil
Than a filesystem
That is case insensitive?

Amiga. Mac. ??? !!!






(yes i say that very 1st world tongue in cheek. i know eg about Yemen.)

The fact that (as far as I know) most computing hardware lacks mechanical physical real-world kill switches for microphones and cameras is super lame. Such an obviously desirable thing in this day and age. Almost makes you think there’s a nefarious reason such switches have not happened.

Amen

Amen.

Amen.

Amen, Amen, Amen.

Aaaaaamen!

The mangling of what should be proper, full sized, inverted-T cursor keys is one of the most damning usability and user experience things of recent years. First the arrow keys got shortened to be half-height so they could fit them into one row. That was bad enough. But then the real kicker that I just cannot fathom is when they made the left & right arrow keys full-height, and had the up & down arrow keys half-height inline on the same row. This meant there was no negative space to afford touch feedback, which meant it was a lot harder to find and use the keys without looking at the keyboard, and that even when using them one could easily get off-by-one or more.

Ok, well, then the extra double-plus serious freakin' kicker to that kicker is that not only is this happening on business laptops, but... shudder... on (so-called) gaming laptops. The sky truly is falling.