Tuesday, June 2, 2026

hardly loving grace

Probably 80%+ of the time, I find any online sites to be just broken and awful. And most are either some kind of 3rd party thing (e.g. contractor who is using intuit quikbooks) or probably was paid for once to some web consultancy (e.g. some international community group i volunteer with that has required online training). They all are immediately obviously bad, broken, dumb, wrong, unhelpful, misleading, and plain stupid. The kicker being that since they are 3rd party, nobody has the leverage or money or time to actually fix things. Like, not even basic bugs, let alone the overall UX.

And of course the other usual places to experience horrible UX have not gotten any better. When the insurance company said they would call me back later, and they did, the IVR hung up on me when I pressed "1" to accept. It did this twice. And the process of even getting to that point was a nightmare itself.

To some degree there isn't enough regulatory or competitive reason for any of these things to actually get any better, 'natch. 

Monday, June 1, 2026

technology apologists

should kind of sort of be you know pilloried at the stake.

like: WSL2 is such a bunch of crap, at least for my use cases.

i know: dog playing chess, and all that. 

Saturday, April 25, 2026

unsurprised

JUST HOW EFFING BAD ALL UI UX ABOUT RUNNING LLMS LOCALLY IS, JUST UTTER DOG POOP

"dependencies"

pretty much all systems fail when it comes to managing dependencies. 


as if that isn't a fundamentally important architectural thing to make sure to mot screw up.  


golly i hate technology sometimes. 

Saturday, April 18, 2026

we make our own hell

it is 20freaking26 and the modal error dialog box i get from vs code has no way for me to copy the text out of it. (on linux, fwiw.)

Sunday, April 12, 2026

security is a four letter lie

https is not really secure: just hack the way certificates are implemented, socially.

 

wifi is not really secure: nothing is compatible until you drop down to some lame security-thatre setting.

 

this all before AI made secure a laughingstock.

 

alsmost as if the powers-that-be don't really want anything mainstream to actually be secure.