Axis of Evil, in some sort of order: javascript; python; ruby; perl; scheme; lisp; java; f#; swift; go; ocaml; haskell.

I guess there is no such thing as a halfway decent programming language.

Why is it that neither github nor bitbucket could apparently ux-design their way out of a paper bag? I fail to understand. Do they never use their own product? Do they really think their navigation makes much freaking sense?!

I don't now about darcs or others, but git and hg have really stolen the prize when it comes to utterly bad horrible evil UX. At least at he command line. If you ask me. Or, if you ask anybody with a clue. Ahem.

I call B.S. on the whole "oh you can't delete things you can only archive them" UX that all of Google is so apparently enamoured with. B.S. as in that is not UX that is lame corporate evil crap. I mean, if you ask me.

I love how most things are kind of indictments. Like how nobody publishes their ssh fingerprint so you just blithely accept whatever you get the first time you ssh in. Or how most everybody seems to omit "make test" from the whole "./configure && make && make install" sequence. etc.

SSLMate: "Simple Security Get SSL certificates from the command line in under 60 seconds."

uh... no. not really.

like, so far i've had to (1) use the command line [which obviously previously required installing it, that standard hell], (2) going to my email, (3) going to some random page the email directs me to, (4) wait a long time with on real feedback for the script to finish, hopefully.

Computers are, as a rule, a train wreck when it comes to usability and user experience. Like I'm trying to install something on the command line in a terminal program, and it does some escape code trickery to show a running tally of "bytes downloaded / bytes required (complete%)", and in doing so prevents me (apparently) from using the mouse to click-drag-select text. I guess the cursor being updated like that screws it all up. So that's freaking genius!