Coming soon! A new circle of Hell! For those people who post 'helpful' tutorials/examples on the web that turns out to be mostly just copy-pasting the examples from the manufacturer's docs. Which suck. Which was why I went looking for alternatives in the first place.

Living in the future is not all it was cracked up to be. Sure I can find out about all the restaurants in my local area super quick, vs. having to use the Yellow Pages, or hear from random friends, or whatever. But, it also means that I end up seeing a lot of web sites for restaurants that are usability and user experience abominations. Thus this hallowed future sometimes seems to be all about bringing me really bad user experiences faster than ever before, and anywhere I go since I can get it on my phone. Yay!

In the university level class I teach on usability and user experience, I use the ffmpeg command line interface as a wonderful example of both how to do it, and even more how not to.

I find it almost terminally depressing that apparently the world of computer software system development is populated with more than enough people to make sure that pretty much everything has some kind of blatantly bad stupid wrong evil broken hateful idiotic pathetic lame clueless eff up that makes me tear my hair out.

Consider pop up drop down menus. Consider one that has a little down arrow icon at the side of it. "[Foo bar|▼]" as a terribly bad lame evil wrong effing sad ascii example. I expect that when I click on the text, the full menu should appear, not only when I click on the down arrow.

But who knows! Maybe It's Just Me!

I grew up on Emacs, not Vi. I have to say, though, that Emacs is just kinda scary bad news when it comes to UX, in many ways. A nice glaring badness is how undo works in Emacs. There's no redo, just a twisty undo that can undo the undos until you are so freaked out and lost and confused you just give up using it ever. Anybody who is an apologist for this design doesn't score well on UX in my personal humble subjective opinionated opinion.

People complain that the IoT is instead "of Things" is "of Shyte". The thing is that everything about computers has pretty much sucked long before any IoT junk.


I start with this:

And when I click on View Details, I get this:

hate.

I don't even know how privileged I am vs. 99.9% of the rest of humanity. Nevertheless it drives me crazy whenever somebody doesn't realize they are privileged. Whatever form of socio-economic status is being blithely missed, it is depressing. Depressing when people really truly cannot comprehend disparity and biogotry and clueless discrimination. If you have never run the thought experiment of what it would be like if They were to throw you in prison for no really good reason, of what it would be like if They were to shoot you dead for no really good reason, please do try it and try to get a feeling for the existential horror of it all. (But don't worry about voting on it since everything is already gerrymandered all to heck.)