train wreck

ux is impossible to do well, both empirically and logically. there's just too many conflicting use cases. 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70855922/how-to-change-mouse-scroll-speedsensitivity-in-vs-code-terminal

indirection kills

 in programming environments. 

news at T.translate(sys.getLocalLang(), $news_events[current_blog_complaint].time.hour.toTS(sys.getLocalTZ())) oh and don't forget about the SCSS hell that goes along with it. 

auth

 "yes it's me" cough cough ahem

"it's good to be the king"

 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46409969

not a fan

of super hero as a cultural thing. irks me that people spend so much time & money on eg mcu. it is to sigh. no accounting for taste. 

like how in Thunderbolts they went into the mind in order to try to help resolve mental abuse issues but the fix was just to get into a big fight inside the mind. 

so, like, yeah: the way to resolve anything & everything is to resort to violence. 

ballyhooed

streaming video recommendation ui ux still suck. 

almost as if the services don't actually have much of anything worth watching at all in their collection. 

depressing

 the ux train wreck that has taken over laptops of anything other than proper inverted-T cursor keys. 

mind boggling

 how does AMD survive when they are so apparently out to lunch? the crypto thing was epic but that's over and done. meanwhile they fail seemingly epically wrt ai support? business is a mystery to me. 

riddle me this

 why do foreign people talk to their pets in foreign languages? it isn't like the pet can understand them!?

the future!!

 windows 11 still cannot get the clock time right all the time. like not even from the internet. 

worser

 html templating is just the worst idea ever. 

well, excepting all others. 

p.s. why does blogger ux still suck so much?

visceral

 the ms windows multiple mini dots "processing" activity spinner animation design thing makes me kind of angry. 

lag kills, news at elves

 the ios soft keyboard word suggestion update lag means when i tap the word i want it has a very non-zero chance of changing out from under me just before i tap WHICH RESULTS IN THE EXACT OPPOSITE UX I WANTED because wtf now i have to clean up THAT mess!

lies, damned lies, & the web

 firefox strict tracking protection mode turned on "Fix major site issues" which ALLOWS trackers. yeah, that makes so much sense. 

nobody can square the ux of "being able to do things" with "being secure / having privacy / anonymity". (especially when there is money involved.)

she aged well for 80 years

 

yay. sincerely.

 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290349

sticky hell

 the idea of a sticky header as you scroll down sort of makes sense in the abstract but i have never ever encountered one that doesn't just puss me off. 

"fraud, plain and simple"

 naming is hard. but also, evil. 

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322540

the crash

 just tell AI to tell us how to avoid the AI crash financial implosion, right?

fail

 software development is a dumpster fire. 

"the network is the computer" and yet data passing e2e is a rube goldberg DX train wreck at best. 

turdles all the way down

 ribbons of SHAME

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73635540/vs-code-format-selection-is-formatting-the-entire-document-why

rocket science

empirically: making a ui that is not broken ux for string searching, and results thereof.

the best camera

 is the one you have with you. 

unless

it is an iphone and i cannot turn off bleedin' hdr. 

boggles the mind

 There seems to be a ux brain virus that has infected many many software systems: buttons floating over the text area, inevitably covering up things I wish i could see. Blogger does it. MS Word does it. a often seems to be due to them pushing "AI" features?

markdown

 the standardization and commitment to consistent clear formatting rules is why i love markdown over html.  

/s, indeed.

middle finger

 the ios swipe up because we got rid of the home button and everything about it (including touchid) drives me nuts. the entire implementation of swipe up (or sideways at the bottom of the screen) makes me kind of livid. 

no wonder the aliens refuse to make contact with us. 

ux

 i still prefer unlocking with touch id over this "face" business. 

(i'm talking ios, here.)

ecommerce

 is a four-letter word that does not include the substring "ux".

eluktronics

 i have not had good "luk" with their products. keyboard and trackpad serious deficiencies. oh well.

doctor & the pedantics

 if i were an MD i would berate people when they said stat instead of statim. 

self defeat

 it is unfortunately empirically a constant ux fail train to try to use microsoft office products. 

cultish

 every software project quickly becomes a cult based around how things already work, and tends to sweep things like tech debt under the carpet. 

like when i go back to old personal project code. "who wrote this stuff??? oh. wait."

escape velocity

 has anybody successfully fed AI into AI yet?

i guess we'd either already know, or be dead before we realized anything?

good things

 i cannot strongly defend 3d printing from an ecological perspective. having said that, i love my fdm printer. i have a monoprice mini delta v2. 

browsers

 i don't guess there is a web browser any more that doesn't get ux wrong: bookmarks; tabs; history; link copying; text search...

msft

 the scrollbars!

the scrollbars!

the upgrade game

 it sucks no matter what OS. 

but, i think windows is still the worst. 

msft

 windows update ux has always been terrible. 

guess what, they finally fuxed it in windows 11.

msft

 the "show more options" right click menu thing in windows 11 is just plain embarrassing. 

like, they didn't really finish their homework and sre just hoping nobody will notice the fact that it just gives up at that point and reverts to windows 10. 

so like WE *have* to upgrade to eleven OR ELSE, but they can just phone it in. 

msft

soooo... latest windows 11 update has resulted in having some windows os buttons be white text on a light pink background. 

deity expletive. 

crushin' it

 i feel like msft only gets ever worse. 

actually same with apple. 

ok ok pretty much just everything. 

fool's errand

 https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp/issues/1717

programming languages suck. 

your home-grown one sucks the most. 

love/hate

 i appreciate lisps & schemes & rackets & clojures & shens a lot. 

but holy DX hell batman!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38172152/elisp-test-an-object-is-a-function

ux

 pretty much almost every damned 2FA ux is crap. broken ass crap.

funny pukey

 not funny ha ha. 

how all ux was already bad, but then we went crazy with touch and now ai. 

msft

 complaints about the ux of msft office turn out to be pretty valid, in my experience. 

especially if you've ever used alternative like google or slack  

which also suck, but suck less.

math & politics

for all parties concerned, ideally, as a nerd i think math would be a better thing to use for stuff like how to run voting, or how to draw up districts.

of course i know that would depend on having actually good data. can't win?

invention

 The Shoe Boot. 

attaches to your shoes that you want to leave on the porch but bot gave them ever get stolen. 

you know, like a car boot. 

holidays mobile game

 You've Got to Freeze the Turkey

pick yer poison

 kinda hate it when i apt install some linux command line utils only to see that it is actually implemented in python. feels like i am getting ripped off  

old days it would have been perl, of course. 

old-old days, it would be C as god intended. 

maybe in the future it will be Rust; i'd be ok with that. 

ecommerce

 nobody does a great job at making web sites. not even ecommerce. not even amazon (it just is overall less bad). 

aaaaaaand

certainly not toyota dealerships. 

automobile usability

 i wish it were a rule that turn signals:

1) had to be orange  

2)) had to not be fancy animated, just blink. 

3) had to be their own bulbs. 

4) had to be at least halfway up the car. 

burgers

 how can there be that many places to buy burgers? yeah, or pizza. i'm making burgers at home. crazy times.